*>>**The downside of Hyper-V is you have an OS you still have to patch and reboot regularly which may or may not matter to you. *
Um... There are quite a number of ESX patches out there, too. http://secunia.com/advisories/vendor/300/ *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:37 AM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > I use both Hyper-V (clients) and VMWare (%dayjob%), although admittedly I > know Hyper-V from the ground up and VMWare I just mainly create machines and > move them around. VMWare is more flexible although 2008 R2 Hyper-V is "good > enough for actual use" - even though my clients are on pre-R2 Hyper-V. > > IMO both are pretty easy to figure out. > > The downside of Hyper-V is you have an OS you still have to patch and > reboot regularly which may or may not matter to you. > > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:48 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: VMWare vs Hyper-V > > Probably a can of worms here but we have not done much virtualization but > are about to get into it more. It will be pretty simple virtualization, a > couple of big boxes running 4 or 5 virtualized servers each. No cluster > failovers or anything like that. We dabbled in VMWare before Hyper-V became > mature but now I need to pick one and run with it. I am leaning towards > Hyper-V because it is included with our license and so far has been pretty > painless in testing. I found VMWare to be confusing with all the different > packages, licensing...upgrades and all that. I suspect it provides far more > flexibility but not knowing what that flexibility really is concerns me. > > So thought I would ask the knowledgeable masses here if I am missing > anything important. > > TIA > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
