Comments on: VMware competition nears; Microsoft ships Hyper-V beta

By: Melynda

Melynda — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:07:25 +0000

ovulation+calendar

ovulation+calendar

By: Microsoft readies for Hyper-V finale with new release candidate — Server Virtualization Blog

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:37:10 +0000

[...] Microsoft has been giving public users a taste of its virtualization offering with Beta releases of Hyper-V since December 2007. Microsoft also released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Hyper-V in September 2007. [...]

By: VMWare - A WallStreet Chainsaw Massacre

VMWare - A WallStreet Chainsaw Massacre — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:37:34 +0000

[...] During the 5pm earnings conference call, nothing substantial was revealed aside from a hint of margin compression. As the margin projections were read aloud, shares slid further, down from $64 to $61 in a matter of minutes. It would not be surprising if the price drifts toward $56 before the next recovery bounce. Of course that assumes that it will bounce. – Selected Virtualization Sources and Links Microsoft Windows Server Virtualization http://www.virtualization.info/2007/07/m… Forbes article on VMWare: http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/11/26… – Interesting Information http://www.virtualization.info/radar http://www.virtualization.info/2007/01/m… System Center Virtual Machine Manager http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sc… – News/Links http://www.searchservervirtualization.co… http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/s… http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9833445… http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,223… http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/arti… http://servervirtualization.blogs.techta… http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/1… http://www.informationweek.com/news/show… http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1043 http://www.virtualization.info/2007/12/m… http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Art… http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/d… Jeff Woolsey, Windows Server Virtualization Blog http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/ – Hyper-V SMP Support: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=2608… Hyper-V Networking: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=5f2b… Hyper-V Storage: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=e1eb… – Virtualization Diagrams http://www.virtualization.info/uploaded_… http://www.nasi.com/images/vmware_virtua… http://www.vmware.com/files/images/diagr… [...]

By: NK

NK — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:28:19 +0000

I had started out using VMware for virtual conversions however found the MS products to be much easier to manage and maintain. Hyper-v is extremely fast and right up to par with Physical machines. I have no doubt MS will be the major up and coming VM platform and as usual there support is far above what VMware provides.

By: BKosh

BKosh — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:01:06 +0000

Perhaps the addition of Sanbolic makes Hyper-V a bit more competitive? See story below.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 | 07:55AM PST
From:
Redmond Channel Partner

Sanbolic Brings Clustered File System, Volume Management To Hyper-V

December 20, 2007

by Barbara Darrow

Sanbolic will soon announce support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization product.

The Watertown, Mass., company offers volume management software and a clustered file system — both of which complement Microsoft’s Windows Server and upcoming virtualization stack, says Bill Stevenson, executive chairman of the company.

Sanbolic’s special sauce is that its software lets servers see and access disks at the same time.

“Any type of application using Microsoft servers or workstations can benefit from that shared access to SAN data,” Stevenson said.

“For many applications, like Web servers where you have active content from multiple sources and traffic variations, we can provide a single pool of active content. All content and Web servers can access the data concurrently so there’s no need for replication across the various devices . You can add capacity immediately by adding Web servers,” he noted.

The tandem of Sanbolic’s LaScala volume management and Melio, the clustered file system, are usually both installed in cases where you’re looking for shared file access, says Mark Crescenzi, CEO of Prismworks Technology, Inc., a Hummelstown, Penn.-based solution provider.

“Traditionally you have disks presented and even in a clustered environment usually one node accesses [the disks] at a time. Even in an active-active environment, one node is primary and fails over to a secondary. What Sanbolic does is allow multiple nodes to access files at the same time; it really puts the network in the storage area network.”

Microsoft’s Hyper-V will be available with several Windows Server 2008 SKUs and as a standalone server. Windows Server 2008 is due early next year and the finished version of Hyper-V within 180 days of that. A week ago, Microsoft launched the first public beta of Hyper-V.

Barbara Darrow is Industry Editor for Redmond Developer News, Redmond magazine and Redmond Channel Partner. She has covered technology and business issues for 20 years.

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By: VMware’s busy week: Virtualization Log — Server Virtualization Blog

VMware’s busy week: Virtualization Log — Server Virtualization Blog — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:51:12 +0000

[...] Taken together, these announcements underscore just how far VMware has come as an enterprise software vendor. Contrast that with the big news from the latter half of the week: Microsoft’s unveiling of the Hyper-V beta. No huge surprises there, unless of course, you count the fact that it was released ahead of schedule. We’re eagerly awaiting reviews of the latest Hyper-V; if you were among its downloaders, don’t be shy, tell us what you think by leaving a comment. [...]

By: Hany

Hany — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:36:40 +0000

It seems that it can be only installed on x64 platforms, you can’t insall it on normall x86 platforms ..

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:34:48 +0000

Compe…..what? Please. Still not competitive even if they hadn’t dropped some of the features to bring them into competition with VMware. And it remains to be see whether there is any significant reduction in the need to reboot the “hypervisor only” server for patching in the real world. Minus a feature like vMotion, this is pretty crippling in itself.