Comments on: VMware ESX configuration, cost problems spur user’s switch to Microsoft Virtual Server

By: RealityCheck

RealityCheck — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:40:43 +0000

I worked at TQL when John was there. He was terminated for incompetence. Don’t let his opinions influence your opinions regarding VMWare. If you have any doubts, just check out his personal website at www.johnnyq.com. This guy is a moron.

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By: Vitualdc

Vitualdc — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:06:44 +0000

Typical msft propaganda. Any data center engineer worth their salt already knows that ESX is the standard hypervisor for production but wait, MS Virtual Server is not even a hypervisor so how does this comparison even make sense Jan? There will always be those willing to step over a dollar to pick up a penny.

By: Deathrend

Deathrend — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:33:19 +0000

We have a fairly large setup for ESX, and I have NEVER had these kind of problems. As for pricing, as one said, compare the amount of servers installed per box. We run HP DL580’s, with Quad Core processors, and give or take 100-120 gigs of RAM, on iSCSI SAN’s. Each ESX supports from 15 to 30 servers; we have 18 currently.

We looked as MS-VS (Microsoft Virtual Server), and the sluggish management, and low overhead for multiple servers just didn’t make it feesable. The new Hyper-V on 2008 server might be worth a shot, but that’s iffy…assuming it’s available on 2008 Server Core only, then it might compare). The only thing that ESX can’t do well that MS-VS /might/ be able to pull off, is a TS server. I have yet to see a good MSTS server that’s been virtualized.

Until then, I’ll stick with my HA/VMotion/ESX Clustering!

By: Arild Skullerud

Arild Skullerud — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:57:15 +0000

This article is totally FUD.

I’ve been running ESX since 2.0 in a large production environment, and I have never seen the issues described here.

Sure ESX is not error free, but VMWare is actually quite fast to provide fixes if you have an error you can reproduce.

I fail to see the cost math here. Sure ESX was expensive when we only had single core CPUs. The price stayed the same with dual core, and with quad core, practically quadrupling your performance per dollar, and making a 1U 2CPU server, 8 core, 50 VMs quite easy to run. You’ll need a 1-day training course to achieve it
I also happen to have extensive experience with the old VMWare GSX series, and I would say Microsoft is on that level still.

ESX is the only REAL production virtualization platform as of today. All others should be viewed as test only until they become more mature (and certainly more feature rich).

ArildS

By: jppinto

jppinto — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:53:09 +0000

DITTO: “I never had any configuration issues, or utilization/performance issues.”

Fire that admin and hire someone who knows that they are talking about. I’m an MCSE with a big ESX farm, I am not even considering VS2005. Are you kidding me? The product is no where close to what ESX has accomplished, it has a long way to go. It was a waste of time even testing it.

By: VMguru007

VMguru007 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:23:34 +0000

Hi,

Each of the two products have its own pros and cons. It seems being free is the main pro for MS, where the number of features and performance is definitly on the VMware side. For a good side by side comparison you can have a look at http://www.itcomparison.com/Virtualizati…

Enjoy,
VMguru007

By: Kiran

Kiran — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:28:12 +0000

Hi,
I have one issue related to ESX server3.5 installation on Vmware 6.0.
When i try to install Esx Server 3.5 on vmware 6.0 at the time of installation when sata hard disk drivers installed and setup says “Installing ESX Server 3.5 ….” after that setup abnormally terminated.
I tell you steps how i can configure Vmware for this-?
Vmware Workstation 4/5.0 -> Redhat Guest OS -> !256 Memory -> 10 Gb hard disk LSI LOGIC -> Number of processors 2 ->esx text
Any parameter change for this installation?
I think some changes req in vmx file .
Please any one know how to install this please mail me steps.
Thanks in advance,
KIRAN

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:50:19 +0000

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