There's no app level integration between HyperV and MS apps that I've seen. They do have all the perf counters exposed through Windows which makes it easy to do stuff with their data. VSS provider is also nice since you can just use your existing file system backup tool and get consistent VHD backups as opposed to paying for something else.
I don't think there's anything MS specific in Ken's scenarios of dynamic allocation. Amazon actually rolled this out very recently with their virtualization platform. All that said I run VMWare and have zero plans to change. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backing up VMWare ESX servers -- What do you use? Hi there, I obviously can't speak for Microsoft. I don't think that Hyper-V itself will necessarily be aware of the what is happening in each VM - it can just expose performance data. Instead, what we see now is System Center Operations Manager (via PRO management packs) picking up that performance data, and then hooking into System Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage the guests (e.g. move them to other hosts if you are constrained by CPU or memory). I imagine that this level so sophistication will only grow - maybe it can provision new VMs on the fly for an NLB cluster, or somehow switch backend SAN storage for you to give you access to higher IOPS if you are disk I/O constrained etc. All of this would require a fair level of sophistication and interop with other components though. I'm not sure that Hyper-V will become a para-virtualisation product. Microsoft's got a bunch of virtualisation technologies now (App-V, Hyper-V etc). They probably need to do some work developing those, and then also seeing where market demand takes us. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 10:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backing up VMWare ESX servers -- What do you use? (high-jacking thread) Ken, Are you using Hyper-V in production b\c of integration like this? While Hyper-V doesn't have the feature of vSphere 4 or Xen, I do think Microsoft's value prop in the hypervisor space will be at the application layer, i.e., Hyper-V will know that SQL is running and it will be able to do neat SQL stuff on that VM. Some people are calling MS' flavor of para-virtualization but I'd like to hear from those MVPs\people who are closer to MS than myself on what the Hyper-V roadmap is past the R2 release next year... TIA, Shook -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backing up VMWare ESX servers -- What do you use? Windows Backup, and Hyper-V (Windows Backup just utilises the various VSS writers under the covers) Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
