Have to agree with Ken In my experience it wont be a patch on esx if they dont get SCVMM right and available soon. You need that for live migration, managing your storage and images.
Also would have hoped that the management of a remote server would have been easy. Enabling remote management to a server is a pita (at least it was for me trying to do it from my standalone laptop to my test domain) and if you use hyperv on server core, trying to enable remote management on that is more of a PITA. I really have nothing to compare apples to, not sure anyone would. I have used ESX and Virtual Iron in production environments and we would be a while off even testing a similar spec, load hyperv server, i guess then we could do some comparison. ________________________________ From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 1:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft Hyper-V To be honest, in my experience you might get a few hundred MB of RAM back by running Core rather than a full install. Unless you have a few VM hosts, it’s not worth worrying about either way. Performance is good – very good compared to Virtual Server 2005 However there are a few drawbacks: - No real management tools yet (SCVMM vNext is required for managing Hyper-v) - A few bugs (e.g. with TCP Offload and the new NICs) - No ability to build VMs using PXE booting and using the new synthetic NICs ( you need to use a legacy NIC) If you want a drill-down into Hyper-V architecture, I did a presentation for my local user group on it that I can send to you direct. Cheers Ken From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 31 March 2008 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft Hyper-V It is light-years ahead of where Microsoft’s VM technology has been. You want to use it on top of Server Core as opposed to the standard server install to keep your parent OS from using all your resources. I’m sure you’ll have many longs days of fun with it. Tim From: Sauvigne, Craig M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Microsoft Hyper-V Has anyone been playing with Hyper-V from Microsoft? If so, what are your impressions? Since it is rolled into our licensing for Server 2008 anyway, we are looking at it for virtualization. It seems like it has a lot of the same features and functions as VMWare and ESX. I am just now setting up a test box for it. Any hints, tips or tricks to it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ==================== Craig M. Sauvigne System Administrator Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SC143 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
