{"id":13856,"date":"2012-11-28T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T11:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13856"},"modified":"2012-11-28T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T11:56:43","slug":"what-gartner-says-of-windows-server-2012-hyper-v-versus-vsphere-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13856","title":{"rendered":"What Gartner Says Of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Versus vSphere 5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously did a <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13483\" target=\"_blank\">comparison of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V versus vSphere 5.1<\/a> and the response I got from VMware made me laugh out loud so much that my colleagues thought I\u2019d gone crazy. I was told by a well informed person that <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13636\" target=\"_blank\">VMware formed a team to attack me<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wlEmoticon-smile5.png\" alt=\"Smile\" \/> Seriously guys!?!? Little ol\u2019 me, a blogger?<\/p>\n<p>So what will VMware do to attack Gartner?\u00a0 This is what Gartner vice-president and distinguished analyst Carl Claunch said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/2240172988\/Hyper-V-boost-pushes-Microsoft-virtualisation-closer-to-VMware\" target=\"_blank\">according to Computer Weekly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are beginning to move to the cloud then Hyper-V is worth a serious look<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s because we know that VMware\u2019s management is inferior and is integrated if you consider a rename and change of icon as integration, like CA did with their Unicenter TNG framework back in the 1990s.\u00a0 VMware has nothing that comes any way close to touching System Center, and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is &#8220;built from the cloud up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Windows Server 2012 is more advanced than VMware<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Woops! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wlEmoticon-smile5.png\" alt=\"Smile\" \/> We know that a big reason that people use virtualization is flexibility. How do they compare here in Gartner\u2019s opinion?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hyper-V is much more flexible<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s gotta hurt if you once touted vMotion as the best thing since sliced bread. But vMotion is inferior to Live Migration now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hyper-V is a viable alternative to VMware. Microsoft has improved the product\u2019s position<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey Tad, are you and your minions going to attack Gartner in your blog and on Twitter now?<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2c28eee1-6bdc-4ad2-9fef-0caf2de31823\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\">System Center<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\">VMware<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously did a comparison of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V versus vSphere 5.1 and the response I got from VMware made me laugh out loud so much that my colleagues thought I\u2019d gone crazy. I was told by a well informed person that VMware formed a team to attack me Seriously guys!?!? Little ol\u2019 me, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Gartner Says Of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Versus vSphere 5.1&#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":[20],"tags":[181,193,195,103],"class_list":["post-13856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856","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=13856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}