Hyper-V, not in my datacenter (part 2: Guest OS and Memory overcommit)

28 November, 2008

Guest OS
After you installed your hypervisor you want to virtualize your physical servers on it. When doing the research for my presentation I was very surprised to find some strange limitations in which guest are supported with Hyper-V. Can you believe that not all Windows Server versions are supported? Well neither could I.

Hyper-V, not in my datacenter (part 1 – Hardware)

26 November, 2008

When posting on my blog I try to stay as objective as I can. Although I’m a big VMware fan I try to look at other products with an open mind and not be biased, I found myself in doubt when creating a presentation in which I was comparing Hyper-V to VMware ESX. I [...]

ESX outperforms Hyper-V….. easily

Finaly we get a little glamps on performance differences between ESX and Hyper-V. Read it al:
http://dantedog29.blogspot.com/2008/11/esx-server-beats-hyper-v-in.html

by Kenon Owens.

The real questions about Enhanced VMotion Compatibility

17 November, 2008

More and more blog posts I read, talk about Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) and what it does, but they fail to answer some specific questions I have. So I started to do some thorough investigation and try and answer the remaining questions myself. I’ll copy and paste a few pieces from several posts and show [...]

Dutch VMUG event 2008 – Open for registration

13 November, 2008

The Dutch VMUG event attracts a lot of attention. In September 2005, the first time this event was held the number of attendees was around 50. This number has risen over the years. The next event will take place on the 12th of December and is open for registration. The Dutch VMUG expects around 600 [...]