+1 on Hyper-V. The price is right. We moved from VMWare Server 1.0 to VMWare Server 2.0 and it never ran right. After looking at the different virtualization options (Parallels, VMWare ESX(i), Hyper-V, XenServer, KVM on Linux, etc...) and found that for our environment Hyper-V was both the cheapest (we were going to be licensing Windows servers anyways, and the Hyper-V is free), had available support from local vendors, and easy enough to use.
+1 on VMWare ESX(i), too... as long as your hardware is on the supported list. If they demand VMWare Server 2.0, remind them that It's reached End of Availability in January 2010, and going to be EOL in less than a year. What will they do when it's no longer supported by VMWare? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:28:20 -0700 Subject: Re: VMWare config question > I'm curious...if they're dictating the requirements, why have you do it? > > Put it another way, are they paying for your expertise? VMWare server 2 is > truly horrible. If you've never worked with it, you'll come to loathe it in > a short time. I used it for about a month to host a VM before I > transitioned to ESXi. On the same box, with the same configuration, I was > rebooting both the host and the guest OS's constantly usually for > nonresponsiveness, host, guest, both... I later turned that box into an > ESXi host and it hosted 4 servers without breaking a sweat. > > If you're saying Virtual Server, I agree, but MS Hyper-v is a different > beast altogether. > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Charlie Kaiser > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Thanks for all the replies. > > > > For some reason, they're not getting to my email and I'm viewing this from > > the webpage. I've reposted twice; sorry for the dupes. > > > > Unfortunately, I don't get to choose the parts being used here. It has > come > > down from the client that VMWare server is what is going in. They won't > buy > > another server for ESXi and the guest must run as a service, so I can't > use > > workstation. > > MS Virtual server has been denied. > > > > So I have to work with what I've got. Given that, any location > > recommendations? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Charlie Kaiser > > [email protected] > > Kingman, AZ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
