RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
unday, October 05, 2008 10:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q > -Original Message- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-

Re: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Pruitt
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:10 PM Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Obvious

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q > > Obviously this is an outsourcer issue, not a VMware issue. > But the bigger question is why throw out t

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2008-10-05 Thread Steven Peck
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 = Free * Virtual Server 2005 R2 = Free Just wanted to say.. I'm not against VMware, or Microsoft, since there seemed no other point then to say product = free I thought I'd jump on the post bandwagon. * http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/10/01

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
M To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Agreed, they either need a new outsourcer or the in-house knowledge to do it themselves. Don Ely wrote: > 2-3 weeks to provision a VM?!?!?!?! WTF is that about? -- Phil Brutsche [

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2008-10-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
Agreed, they either need a new outsourcer or the in-house knowledge to do it themselves. Don Ely wrote: > 2-3 weeks to provision a VM?!?!?!?! WTF is that about? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-05 Thread Don Ely
us) is going to deliver it on > SCVMM 2008 and Hyper-V, then so be it. > > Cheers > Ken > > > -Original Message- > > From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, 5 October 2008 9:54 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues &g

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 5 October 2008 9:54 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q > > Esxi = free > Vmware server = free > > > Im not against MS in any way shape or form, they will

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Esxi = free Vmware server = free Im not against MS in any way shape or form, they will end up with a good product and will likely be adopted by a lot of people. I think they have a pretty big battle on their hands here because it will take a lot of people to switch, a game changer if you will.

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
on :) -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Can you point us to that article? I couldn't find it. I did

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2008-10-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 5 October 2008 1:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Hyper-V is a huge step up from Virtual Server. I always hated that app. The web based inter

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
, 2008 7:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Um, Microsoft cut the price of Virtual Server to $99, and then gave it away for free, well before VMWare started offering VMWare Server v1.0. You used to have to pa

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
rday, 4 October 2008 6:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q VMWare has been giving their hypervisor away for free for a while now. In addition to ESXi, they have been giving VMWare server and Player away for a long

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2008-10-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Can you point us to that article? I couldn't find it. I did find this: http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/090108-test-vi

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2008-10-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
nt: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Still worth a chuckle. The Government might try to bail out Microsoft if anything like that happened to them. They would still want their tech support. Ch

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2008-10-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
nstall an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue." - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:27 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a ra

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread Chris Alliey
ยข Chris From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Perhaps not immediately, but surely many of you remember when Novell had a seemingly untouch

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
- B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:27 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Don't see why... The gov

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2008-10-03 Thread RichardMcClary
Don't see why... The government has made several poor choices and is about to go under, and what has Microsoft done to bail them out? (Just kidding, sort-of...) -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urba

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread David Lum
Perhaps not immediately, but surely many of you remember when Novell had a seemingly untouchable hold on the networking OS market? Dead horse Q of the week: If Microsoft suddenly made several poor choices and was about to go under, would the government bail it out? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER