It was still an interesting read. The long and short of it is that it depends on what you want to do; there are some things Hyper-V does better (or at least as well), and there are some things VMWare does better.
In my case, we're a Microsoft shop. Their products do what we need, are very affordable for us since we're academic, and play well together. Hyper-V meets our needs. Others' mileage may vary. -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Im looking at the cover, but your right, it says on the cover that VMware's ESX KOs Hyper-V in faceoff, I took that as a beatdown, but then in the article it said it gives it the 'edge' Sorry for my interpretation :) -----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 find this: http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/090108-test-virtualization.html?inf orm?ap1=rcb The title is, "VMware edges out Microsoft in virtualization performance test." Since there's a big difference between one product "edging out" another vs. beating it "hands down", I'm assuming this isn't the article you're referring to... -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! & a random Friday Q Network World FWIW, just did a month long test of HyperV vs ESX and said basically ESX wins hands down. *shrug* -----Original Message----- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 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. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You need to install 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 random Friday Q 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, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org David Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/03/2008 10:45:22 AM: > 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 > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:16 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! > > Hmmm, I don't think that Hyper-V is going to shove VMWare out of the > way, they are way to ahead of MS in virtualization at this point to > even be threatened by Hyper-V. > On 10/1/08, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <yawn> > > Shook > > From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:44 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! > > +1 I think the whole world is about to become more virtual. Will > free Hyper-V do to VMware what Internet Explorer did to Netscape? > Is it déjà vu all over again? > > Carl > > From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:47 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! > > Thanks, Michael. > > Christopher J. Bosak > Vector Company > c. 847.603.4673 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue." > - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:43 hrs > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! > > http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx > > Regards, > > Michael B. 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