RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

2008-11-13 Thread Michael B. Smith
And hardware DEP (which AMD and Intel call different things).

Regards,

Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP
My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael
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-Original Message-
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

ESXi wouldn't even try to install on my ECS NFORCE6M-A(3.0) w/Phenom 9600.
Told me the system wasn't recognized less than 2 minutes after booting the
CD.

HVS08, no problem.

Maybe ESXi will run on specific cheap hardware, but Hyper-V will run on ANY
cheap hardware that supports Vista 64-bit and virtual extensions.

Carl

-Original Message-
From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell 
Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on 
whiteboxes.

Google esx white box

Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225

Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware.

al
--
Al Lilianstrom
CD/LSC/CSI/CSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server 
2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are:

ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware.  Those 
requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't 
be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop.   HVS08 will run on any 
hardware with driver support for Windows 2008.

HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support.  ESXi can run 
on older server platforms that predate those features.

ESXi allows over-subscription of memory.  That means you could run two 
VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB.  HVS08 has 
almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core 
- so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs.

Carl

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

Hi folks,

I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, 
and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some 
of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit 
more, and might have more comments.

I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other 
paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at 
virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front 
end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these 
web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look 
into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies 
on a virtual server that are allowed.

I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN 
involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software 
necessary (maybe need some more RAM).

My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? 
I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has 
comments on that, please let me know.

Thanks.

Mark


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

2008-11-12 Thread Al Lilianstrom
ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell 
Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on 
whiteboxes.


Google esx white box

Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225

Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware.

al
--
Al Lilianstrom
CD/LSC/CSI/CSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server 
2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are:


ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware.  Those 
requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't 
be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop.   HVS08 will run on any 
hardware with driver support for Windows 2008.


HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support.  ESXi can run 
on older server platforms that predate those features.


ESXi allows over-subscription of memory.  That means you could run two 
VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB.  HVS08 has 
almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core 
- so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs.


Carl

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

Hi folks,

I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, 
and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some 
of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit 
more, and might have more comments.


I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other 
paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at 
virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front 
end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these 
web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look 
into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies 
on a virtual server that are allowed.


I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN 
involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software 
necessary (maybe need some more RAM).


My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? 
I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has 
comments on that, please let me know.


Thanks.

Mark


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

2008-11-12 Thread NTSysAdmin
Yup, indeed it does.

Also, there is no comparison between any version of ESX  HyPer-V

At the moment, ESX wins hands down on all fronts. MS will probably catch up in 
around 10 years.
S

-Original Message-
From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell 
Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on 
whiteboxes.

Google esx white box

Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225

Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware.

al
--
Al Lilianstrom
CD/LSC/CSI/CSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server 
2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are:

ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware.  Those 
requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't 
be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop.   HVS08 will run on any 
hardware with driver support for Windows 2008.

HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support.  ESXi can run 
on older server platforms that predate those features.

ESXi allows over-subscription of memory.  That means you could run two 
VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB.  HVS08 has 
almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core 
- so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs.

Carl

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

Hi folks,

I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, 
and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some 
of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit 
more, and might have more comments.

I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other 
paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at 
virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front 
end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these 
web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look 
into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies 
on a virtual server that are allowed.

I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN 
involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software 
necessary (maybe need some more RAM).

My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? 
I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has 
comments on that, please let me know.

Thanks.

Mark


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Mulholland
Be careful..

We are not talking about ESX and Hyperv here. Anyone with half a brain knows 
there is no contest between the two overall.

We are talking strictly about ESXi and HyperV

Greg

-Original Message-
From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

Yup, indeed it does.

Also, there is no comparison between any version of ESX  HyPer-V

At the moment, ESX wins hands down on all fronts. MS will probably catch up in 
around 10 years.
S

-Original Message-
From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell 
Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on 
whiteboxes.

Google esx white box

Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225

Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware.

al
--
Al Lilianstrom
CD/LSC/CSI/CSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server 
2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are:

ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware.  Those 
requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't 
be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop.   HVS08 will run on any 
hardware with driver support for Windows 2008.

HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support.  ESXi can run 
on older server platforms that predate those features.

ESXi allows over-subscription of memory.  That means you could run two 
VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB.  HVS08 has 
almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core 
- so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs.

Carl

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

Hi folks,

I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, 
and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some 
of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit 
more, and might have more comments.

I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other 
paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at 
virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front 
end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these 
web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look 
into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies 
on a virtual server that are allowed.

I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN 
involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software 
necessary (maybe need some more RAM).

My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? 
I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has 
comments on that, please let me know.

Thanks.

Mark


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

2008-11-12 Thread Carl Houseman
ESXi wouldn't even try to install on my ECS NFORCE6M-A(3.0) w/Phenom 9600.
Told me the system wasn't recognized less than 2 minutes after booting the
CD.

HVS08, no problem.

Maybe ESXi will run on specific cheap hardware, but Hyper-V will run on ANY
cheap hardware that supports Vista 64-bit and virtual extensions.

Carl

-Original Message-
From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell 
Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on 
whiteboxes.

Google esx white box

Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225

Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware.

al
--
Al Lilianstrom
CD/LSC/CSI/CSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server 
2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are:

ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware.  Those 
requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't 
be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop.   HVS08 will run on any 
hardware with driver support for Windows 2008.

HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support.  ESXi can run 
on older server platforms that predate those features.

ESXi allows over-subscription of memory.  That means you could run two 
VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB.  HVS08 has 
almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core 
- so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs.

Carl

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

Hi folks,

I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, 
and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some 
of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit 
more, and might have more comments.

I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other 
paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at 
virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front 
end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these 
web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look 
into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies 
on a virtual server that are allowed.

I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN 
involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software 
necessary (maybe need some more RAM).

My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? 
I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has 
comments on that, please let me know.

Thanks.

Mark


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

2008-11-12 Thread Steven Peck
In addition.  Most of the objects exposed in the VI API leveraged by
PowerShell functionality is read only and therefore extremely limited
in ESXi.  It will only do reporting and that is pretty much it.

ref: http://halr9000.com/article/612

Steven Peck

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ESXi wouldn't even try to install on my ECS NFORCE6M-A(3.0) w/Phenom 9600.
 Told me the system wasn't recognized less than 2 minutes after booting the
 CD.

 HVS08, no problem.

 Maybe ESXi will run on specific cheap hardware, but Hyper-V will run on ANY
 cheap hardware that supports Vista 64-bit and virtual extensions.

 Carl

 -Original Message-
 From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:10 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

 ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell
 Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on
 whiteboxes.

 Google esx white box

 Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225

 Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware.

al
 --
 Al Lilianstrom
 CD/LSC/CSI/CSG
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

 The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server
 2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are:

 ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware.  Those
 requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't
 be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop.   HVS08 will run on any
 hardware with driver support for Windows 2008.

 HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support.  ESXi can run
 on older server platforms that predate those features.

 ESXi allows over-subscription of memory.  That means you could run two
 VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB.  HVS08 has
 almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core
 - so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs.

 Carl

 From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

 Hi folks,

 I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months,
 and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some
 of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit
 more, and might have more comments.

 I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other
 paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at
 virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front
 end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these
 web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look
 into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies
 on a virtual server that are allowed.

 I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN
 involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software
 necessary (maybe need some more RAM).

 My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two?
 I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has
 comments on that, please let me know.

 Thanks.

 Mark


 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
 ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
 ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~