I use VMware at work and HyperV at home. We have a decent sized VMware installation at work (~80 hosts with ~1800 guests). That said, given our size of our guest systems it would be an annoyance to switch to HyperV. We have considered that at various times during contract negotiations and it is certainly on the table. One day we still might but right now given the multi-year investment in knowledge and tuning it's not worth switching over even though support is really expensive just because.
That said, if we ever need to, we can and will pull the trigger and migrate. Both technologies will have their own issues but both solutions will work. I have friends running comparibly sized HyperV installations and they are about as satisifed as we are with VMware. Most issues revolve around working with our storage teams (seperate) and getting latency numbers we're happy with. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Tony Patton <[email protected]> wrote: > +3 :) > > In saying that, I haven't looked at hyper-v at all, so my recommendation is > biased, can't imagine it would have anything that would make me switch. > > T > > typed slowly on HTC Desire > On 26 Oct 2010 15:20, "Martin Blackstone" <[email protected]> wrote: > > +2 > > But to be fair, it really is a religious war. You will find people who > like > > one or the other. Personally I am a huge ESX fan. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:59 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V > > > > +1 For VMware, they are by far a more robust, flexible , 3rd party > > +supported, great tools for it. That being said, they aint cheap setup > > +does require some extra knowledge but don't think more than learning > > +Hyper-V from scratch > > > > It all depends on your requirements, budget, DR planning etc... I've been > > using Vmware for quite a few years now and it has done well by me, While > I > > dabbled in Hyper-V at the time it didn't compare. You can have a > production > > ready VM host in around 30 minutes provided you have a Server, Network > and > > Storage for it > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:48 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: VMWare vs Hyper-V > > > > Probably a can of worms here but we have not done much virtualization but > > are about to get into it more. It will be pretty simple virtualization, a > > couple of big boxes running 4 or 5 virtualized servers each. No cluster > > failovers or anything like that. We dabbled in VMWare before Hyper-V > became > > mature but now I need to pick one and run with it. I am leaning towards > > Hyper-V because it is included with our license and so far has been > pretty > > painless in testing. I found VMWare to be confusing with all the > different > > packages, licensing...upgrades and all that. 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