Recent content by stash

You can do shared-nothing VMotion in 5.1 so this is no longer strictly true.

It's true VMware doesn't come with Windows licenses, but the 4 VMs per Enterprise license does apply to VMware (or any other hypervisor). You "assign" the Enterprise license to a ESX host. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ms_licensing_faqs.pdf

Hyper-V isn't free, unless you are talking about the hypervisor-only version that is equivalent to the free license of ESXi. Otherwise, you still have Windows licensing costs, plus System Center costs. You need to use the Enterprise version of 2008 R2 to create a failover cluster. Still...

I agree, and I can't stand using Hyper-V myself. Just want to make sure the negatives are based on facts.

Not sure where you're getting this, but it's not true. You can migrate XP VMs on Hyper-V all day long and have HA.

He's referring to Transparent Page Sharing, and yes it does happen. Not as much on newer systems where large pages are usually used though.

What Hyper-V does is not overcommitment.

Why do you have multiple domains?

Make sure the server service isn't disabled.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549

This is client only, you need to have an MSDN sub to download server.

Not sure if everyone realizes, but the machine in the vid is using an SSD.

It's not available yet, although the rumor is that it will be on Monday.

This was true with Vista RTM, but it was removed in SP1 (IIRC) and never added back in. So Win7 will never stop functioning if not activated.

This is not true. You can have as many DCs you want in an SBS network. The limitations are that you can only have one *SBS* server on the network, the SBS server must hold all five FSMO roles, you can only have a single domain forest, since SBS does not support any kind of trust. The SBS server...