I know it might start a flame war :) but why not stay with ESX, it's currently a more mature, flexible and 3rd party developed product. Cost wise it's always a pain, but licenses are perpetual, you can get away with not renewing support or renewing support for only one host in case you are in a jam. What systems are you running? Im surprised at your ratio, I have 4/75 and a 2/48 clusters right now, you might look into lowering the number of hosts and upping their power to get costs down.
That being said, you can do conversions back and forth easy enough -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMware --> Hyper-v If you go for SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the management tool of Hyper-V installs) you get a V2V tool to convert ESX VMs to Hyper-V. I believe the price on it is $1k US for an unlimited number of Hyper-V hosts. On 4/5/2010 8:09 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > Has anyone out there moved an existing virtual environment from ESX / > vSphere to Hyper-V? I've got VMware support renewal coming up in a > few months and I'm very seriously considering dumping VMware > altogether. Our environment is small (currently ~30 VMs on 5 ESX 3.5 > hosts) and the potential cost savings are significant. > > Just curious if there's any history for this out there. -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
