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jugganutz 
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Posted 11 September 2010 - 08:28 AM
Your Article is wrong about Hyper-V not being free.
If you go to the download link for the free version of Hyper-V, here: http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en
then you will see that you can, indeed, get it for free. All the documention is there, too.
It is all command line and we use it today because, unlike VMware, it supports clustering and live migration for free, out of the box. You only have to pay for the OS you put on top of it.
Also, Standard Edition comes with 1 virtual key to use for a virutal server, so its like getting 2 for 1. Then, if you get Enterprise Edition, you get 5 virtual keys. Datacenter Edition gives you as many as your host can run. Also, if it's old operating systems like Server 2003, the same rule applies.
The virtual key is not to say you're only allowed to run that number of Operating Systems - it is just a key you can use for another OS. People do get confused about that. So if you're building a cloud Datacenter, it's the way to go and is the most cost-effective way to pay for it because all the VM's will be free, and you wont have to fetch licenses for them.
Performance-wise they are comparable, mostly, but Hyper-V has better network and virtual disk performance, in my experience. Plus it's not a 32-bit hypervisor that makes restricts you to 2 TB disk chunks. Like ESX, if it's above 2 TB, it will not see the LUN.
Overall, I found your article to be good, but do your research more. I can tell you're Linux guy, and not a MS guy.
If you go to the download link for the free version of Hyper-V, here: http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en
then you will see that you can, indeed, get it for free. All the documention is there, too.
It is all command line and we use it today because, unlike VMware, it supports clustering and live migration for free, out of the box. You only have to pay for the OS you put on top of it.
Also, Standard Edition comes with 1 virtual key to use for a virutal server, so its like getting 2 for 1. Then, if you get Enterprise Edition, you get 5 virtual keys. Datacenter Edition gives you as many as your host can run. Also, if it's old operating systems like Server 2003, the same rule applies.
The virtual key is not to say you're only allowed to run that number of Operating Systems - it is just a key you can use for another OS. People do get confused about that. So if you're building a cloud Datacenter, it's the way to go and is the most cost-effective way to pay for it because all the VM's will be free, and you wont have to fetch licenses for them.
Performance-wise they are comparable, mostly, but Hyper-V has better network and virtual disk performance, in my experience. Plus it's not a 32-bit hypervisor that makes restricts you to 2 TB disk chunks. Like ESX, if it's above 2 TB, it will not see the LUN.
Overall, I found your article to be good, but do your research more. I can tell you're Linux guy, and not a MS guy.
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Posted 11 September 2010 - 09:38 AM
Virtual Machines are incredibly handy in the development area. Combining a "fresh machine" snapshot, together with a suite of tools to build from that snapshot to a variety of production analogues enables risk-free experimentation and superb release testing
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 12:15 PM
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