{"id":11720,"date":"2011-09-15T14:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11720"},"modified":"2011-09-15T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:28:06","slug":"do-you-paying-vtaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11720","title":{"rendered":"Do You Dislike Paying vTaxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then you seriously need to look at Hyper-V.&#160; Even now, if you strip vSphere down to it\u2019s most economic deployment with the Standard edition, you can save quite a bit by going with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (with Software Assurance or though a scheme with upgrade rights like OVS) and the System Center Management Suite (for managing the entire application\/infrastructure stack AKA cloud).&#160; And because Windows Server Hyper-V is <em>not<\/em> vTaxed cripple-ware, you get access to all of the features.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned upgrade rights for Windows Server because you will want Windows 8 Server Hyper-V.&#160; If Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V has more features than vSphere Standard (which it does), then <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?tag=eventnotes\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 8 Server Hyper-V<\/a> will leave VMware and their overpaying customers in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a VMware customer then you need to look now.&#160; Get a lab machine or two and try it out \u2013 do some prep because they <em>are<\/em> different products.&#160; System Center Virtual Machine Manager will allow you to migrate from vSphere, and you\u2019ll get to focus systems management on what the business cares about: the service.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Microsoft partner that\u2019s focused on VMware then go looking for Symon Perriman\u2019s content on Hyper-V training for VMware engineers.&#160; Work with you local Microsoft PTA to get trained up.&#160; in Ireland, MicroWarehouse customers can work with me \u2013 I will be running a number of virtualisation and System Center training classes for partners in MSFT Dublin, and I am available to call out to prepare sales staff and account managers.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V made an impact.&#160; Windows 8 Server Hyper-V is a game changer.&#160; Ignore it at your peril!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:df446406-7653-4c0c-a346-2c70ccdc6e88\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\" rel=\"tag\">VMware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then you seriously need to look at Hyper-V.&#160; Even now, if you strip vSphere down to it\u2019s most economic deployment with the Standard edition, you can save quite a bit by going with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (with Software Assurance or though a scheme with upgrade rights like OVS) and the System Center Management &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do You Dislike Paying vTaxes?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[181,193,195,103,109],"class_list":["post-11720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualisation","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}