Comments on: Microsoft’s ‘embarrassing’ Hyper-V vs. VMware video

By: MBro

MBro — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:48:26 +0000

Awesome post. Thanks for pointing this out, Colin. I laughed, as it reminded me of the whiny, hilarious tone of the “Patrick Duffy and The Crab” videos on YouTube — but for all the wrong reasons. (Here’s the clip: [A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8JSt9PQZT8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8JSt9PQZT8[/A])

By: Jigan

Jigan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:37:44 +0000

Excellent article Collin, you are right on…

By: Colin Steele

Colin Steele — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:56:18 +0000

Thanks, Steve and Eric. We’ll be posting more regularly on this blog, and this vendor back-and-forth is definitely something I want to focus on.

By: Egray

Egray — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:47:46 +0000

Colin, nice article. I was surprised to see it on ITKE — hopefully we will see more “Emperor’s New Clothes” posts like this in the future. Here is my take: http://www.vcritical.com/2009/04/would-you-buy-a-hypervisor-from-these-guys

By: Roidude

Roidude — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:43:34 +0000

Collin, your evaluation is spot on. The competition to VMware is not Hyper-V (or any other hypervisor), it’s inertia. By not virtualizing, organizations are losing the opportunity to save vast amounts of money while incurring much higher staff time requirements and much greater risk of downtime. VMware is clearly superior to Hyper-V in every realistic metric in terms of performance, reliatiliy and functionality. Why would any organization risk all of the savings and other benefits by implementing an inferior product? It’s a much better strategy to beat inertia by virtualizing today with the one proven enterprise virtualization platform, VMware. If it makes sense to switch to another hypervisor 2 – 3 years down the road, then the investment in VMware will probably have been paid off 1,000 times over.