{"id":10483,"date":"2010-03-03T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2010-03-03T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:41:00","slug":"webcast-hyper-v-for-the-vmware-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10483","title":{"rendered":"Webcast: Hyper-V for the VMware Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft did a webcast<\/a> on March 1st aimed at VMware administrators\/engineers\/consultants who are interested in, or will be working with Hyper-V.<\/p>\n

The fan-boys will be thinking negative thoughts and wishing me ill will now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Realistically, you need to start thinking of hardware virtualisation as being like hardware.  Some companies like HP, some like Dell, and some like Fujitsu \u2013 who really likes IBM?  I\u2019m kidding; I don\u2019t really care who likes IBM hardware.<\/p>\n

This means that although a company may have a preference, they will have variations depending on circumstances.  For example, we\u2019re told that VMware has a presence in every single Fortune 100 in the USA.  But do you think none <\/em>of them are either using or considering Hyper-V as well?  There may be features that ESX offers that they use, but Hyper-V offers virtualisation at a greater price.  Bundle in System Center and you have a complete management solution rather than a point one.  With VMM you can manage both ESX (and ESXi) and Hyper-V.  Only the biggest of fan-boys will rule out Hyper-V making it\u2019s way into some VMware sites to work along side it, just like you find a mix of server vendor types in some computer rooms.<\/p>\n

The services industry is another interesting one.  This time last year, I could really think of one, maybe<\/em> two, services companies in Ireland that I would call if<\/em> I was in need of Hyper-V consulting skills.  Lots of them went to events, but they were all sticking to their VMware guns. It was probably a combination of internal evaluations and customer decision making that drove this.  But since last Summer, things shifted slightly.  Hyper-V is mentioned more as a skills requirement.  And thanks to the HP\/Microsoft virtualisation alliance, HP resellers are starting to gather skills.  One of the major players in the Irish enterprise hardware space was laughing at Hyper-V a year ago.  Then they started to lose big virtualisation bids to the few companies going in with Hyper-V solutions.  CSV and Live Migration changed everything.  Customers now were happy to get the core features at a fraction of the price.<\/p>\n

If you are a VMware person, give the webcast<\/a> a watch.  Most of the criticisms of Hyper-V by fan-boys are usually based on lack of knowledge, e.g. the famous \u201c9 things\u201d post that was widely slammed for being ill-informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft did a webcast on March 1st aimed at VMware administrators\/engineers\/consultants who are interested in, or will be working with Hyper-V. The fan-boys will be thinking negative thoughts and wishing me ill will now \ud83d\ude42 Realistically, you need to start thinking of hardware virtualisation as being like hardware.  Some companies like HP, some like Dell, … Continue reading “Webcast: Hyper-V for the VMware Administrator”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,195,103],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t