Hi, Unless you already have an existing investment in ESX Server, I would go with Hyper-V. Performance (for a low-end scenario like you have) will be the same. Cost will be significantly lower (just buy one Windows Server 2008 enterprise license)
Cheers Ken From: Greg Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 6:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: virtual box Id go with Esx. It's true running 2008 hosts on the 3.5 Esx server is still supported via "experimental" support<http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf> I have a few running and they run fine (YMMV). Esx so far is a good deal ahead of MS still with their memory features in Esx, and migration capabilities with Virtual center, and others (But to be fair, I haven't tried Hyper-V yet). I'm not sure I'm reading you right are you going to run 2008 for the guest os's as well as the host one? If your planning on running 2003 for the guest os's and 2008 for the host, then ESX is most definitely the way to go, as ESX replaces the host os completely (Sorry if you already knew that, I wasn't sure) and you don't even have to worry about 2008. Also, keep in mind you want to get the 2008 Server Enterprise license vs the standard for your virtual box, as MS licenses the Enterprise version to be used in up to 4 hosts on the vm box, and only 1 for standard. Here is a good doc on it: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/licensing.mspx -Greg From: Russ Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: virtual box Well, since VMWare I don't believe is officially supporting W2k8 until August or something like that (at least on ESX), you may want to test out hyper V. I would imagine you'd get better response with that, than with VMWare server or MS Virtual Server, especially if you're pretty much sold on going W2k8. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Steve Ens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I'm polling here...I'm looking to run Sharepoint, DPS and terminal serveices off of one box. Ideally I want to carve it up into three (perhaps four) virtual servers. Do I go with the new hyper V, the old virtual server or go with VMWare? I'm going to run it on Win2K8, 8GB, two way quad core. I don't know much about hyper V yet, but I'm reading. I've used virtual server and vmware to test and they seem straight forward as well we get charitable pricing, so that I take into effect as MS products are quite affordable for us. Thanks Steve ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
