I had a dream and in that dream I saw that in 2011: Nobody is fighting over hypervisor performance anymore. Whether Hyper-V, Xen or VMware, all three are perfectly capable of running the heaviest workloads in your datacenter. Companies will use a mix of hypervisors for specific duties. There are still differences between the three […]
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Hyper-V Live Migration for free, tough cookie for VMware
Today I was drawn to this blog post from Microsoft: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate! (Free Live Migration/HA Anyone?). This post confirmed what was expected, Microsoft will be offering Live Migration for free when Hyper-V v2 will be released. This will sureley put some pressure on VMware vSphere pricing or not? If we […]
VMware and performance, a strange combination
Most consultants that are deep into virtualization and VMware in specific, know that VMware has a special policy on publishing performance data. By EULA it is not allowed to publish your own performance results if VMware hasn’t had the chance to check your test plan and configuration. Not many other products in the IT have […]