That VMWare 'comes with the drivers' is really not much of an argument for me. Most likely you already have the drivers available. That the free ESXi doesn't come with all the PowerShell CLI access that the paid for version does would be. That ESXi uses a different file storage formats and is a different technology would also affect my decision.
I would imagine that MS has SA support available for HyperV as well. That said, they both work but unless you have a lot of non-Windows systems you are wanting to virtualize you could use either. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]>wrote: > The HCL is larger but that doesn’t mean that Windows will come with all the > drivers for every item on the HCL out of the box. vSphere generally does if > a box is on the compatibility list. > > > > *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 26 October 2010 17:04 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: VMWare vs Hyper-V > > > > I'm not getting your point, Paul > > > > Where do these supposed dependencies manifest themselves? The HCL for > Windows 2008 R2 is still larger than that of vSphere. If you've installed > Windows on the box, where else do you need to fiddle with NIC (or other) > drivers before you can bring your virtual environment online? > > > > *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> > *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* > * * > > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Paul Hutchings < > [email protected]> wrote: > > That's exactly my point though, you can end up so dependent upon the right > combination of third party drivers on the box running hyper-v vs. "download > vsphere ISO, put in drive, boot, install, done". > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: 26 October 2010 16:30 > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V > > 1) Hyper-V is Windows - whatever drivers you need to run Windows on that > hardware is what you need for Hyper-V; no different than any other Windows > implementation. If you have a major name server, you'll have the drivers you > need from the vendor. > > 2) I can't speak to paid support from non-EA Microsoft customers, but > there's a large and growing amount of Hyper-V knowledge available in the > community. > > -Malcolm > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 09:24 > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: re: VMWare vs Hyper-V > > Personally I'd go with vsphere and look at one of the Essentials bundles as > that will give you cluster capability as well as central control from > vCenter. > > I don't have anything against Hyper-V as I've never actually used it, but > my reservations and reasons for not doing so are two-fold: > > 1) Hardware compatibility - with vsphere you have a HCL and if it's on > that, vmware will supply everything, you just download and insert the media > when necessary. With Hyper-V the hardware may be supported but you may > still have to go download drivers from Broadcom or whoever before you have a > working Hyper-V server. > > 2) Support - with vsphere you can pay vmware for support, or you can use > their forums for free. 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