Do you run a virtual machine?

[imagoon]

Actually, with ESXi, if I want to manage all hosts with one vCenter, I need a license to manage each ESXi box in one console. In other words, on the ESX side, I have 3 paid licenses plus 1 vCenter console that can manage those three licensed hosts. To add an ESXi host, I need another license.

With HyperV, I can have all my hosts in the Hyper-V Manager. No added licensing costs, they're just there.

As for the 4 and unlimited thing, I had to do more digging, but you are absolutely right. Basically it is 1 Physical + 4 Virtual. If on ESX, you don't use the physical but you still get the 4 virtual. This is something I had completed missed. Thanks for the tip!

At this point, I will say that I am still evaluating HyperV. For my smallish environment, it seems to me more than adequate. I can manage ALL of the HyperV hosts in one console at no added cost, whereas ESX would like me to pay to have all the hosts in the same console. While this may seem to be a trivial point, it really makes a world of difference from managing multiple hosts.

Also what features would you be referring to? Storage VMotion? That to me is the one thing I would really like to have, but simply don't have. At present I have live migration from host to host so long as I am not moving storage.

First I would point you at "Essentials" if you don't care about vMotion (around a $1k and $100 a year for support) or "Essentials plus" if really want vMotion.

I was under the understanding that the hyperV Manager was a licensed item (I could be wrong here) edit: I was just looked it up

#1 I would mention is Upgrade Manager.
#2 Would be the performance monitoring.

I found VMware to handle memory management a bit better with the balloon driver and dedup.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

I want to. But I don't have enough computers or horse power to make full use of it.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

HP decided to abandon my perfectly functioning scanner and not provide any drivers for Vista or Win7, so I run WinXP inside VirtualBox whenever I need to scan something. USB pass-through is great

Oooh! I forgot about USB passthrough on VirtualBox. Let's me use iTunes without using iTunes

 

[FelixDeCat]

I use the XP vm in Win 7 to run ArcView.

Thanks for the idea!

Im now running XP and 7 using Sandy Bridge VT tech / VMWare.

 

[fatpat268]

Occasionally. I mostly use it to mess around and learn more about linux, or for compatibility issues (ie a program only working on windows xp). I don't use one often, but that's about the extent of my VM usage.

 

[Ken g6]

I run a Win2K VM for work. The VPN just doesn't work in Linux. Plus, it's nice to have my Linux environment able to access sites (like this one) freely without going through the VPN.

 

[BoberFett]

I'm in the process of virtualizing a couple dozen machines with VMWare on a Dell cluster and NetApp SAN.

 

[mvbighead]

First I would point you at "Essentials" if you don't care about vMotion (around a $1k and $100 a year for support) or "Essentials plus" if really want vMotion.

I was under the understanding that the hyperV Manager was a licensed item (I could be wrong here) edit: I was just looked it up

#1 I would mention is Upgrade Manager.
#2 Would be the performance monitoring.

I found VMware to handle memory management a bit better with the balloon driver and dedup.

We have Essentials Plus. The issue there is I have 3 hosts, but I cannot manage a 4th using the VSphere console without an additional license. If I could add three more hosts to my instance of VSphere/center (6 total), I would likely work on scrapping HyperV altogether.