Is Windows Server 8's Hyper-V finally the VMware killer?

[Chiefcrowe]

looks promising!

https://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/is-windows-server-8s-hyper-v-finally-the-vmware-killer/19961

 

[theevilsharpie]

From a technology standpoint? I doubt it.

From a "it's free and good enough" standpoint? Maybe.

 

[Chiropteran]

Looks improved, but it needs to be better than VMware to beat it, not merely equal.

Anyone else annoyed at how we go from server 2008 to server 8? I can already see the confusion...

"What are you guys running, server 2003?"

"no, 8"

"Oh, server 2008. R1 or R2?"

"No... server 8... not 2008."

 

[IsDanReally]

MS is calling it Windows Server "8" with the 8 in quotation marks. Leads me to believe it may not be called "8."

 

[Nothinman]

Looks improved, but it needs to be better than VMware to beat it, not merely equal.

Anyone else annoyed at how we go from server 2008 to server 8? I can already see the confusion...

"What are you guys running, server 2003?"

"no, 8"

"Oh, server 2008. R1 or R2?"

"No... server 8... not 2008."

They do that every few releases just to make support more difficult. I'm sure everyone would have been fine calling them NT Server 5, 6, 6.5, etc.

 

[Chiropteran]

MS is calling it Windows Server "8" with the 8 in quotation marks. Leads me to believe it may not be called "8."

I would like your theory to be true, but wasn't it the same case with Windows 7? Everyone was so sure they would use a "real" name for the OS upon release, but they called it 7.

 

[gmaster456]

Everything I've read indicates that server 8 is just the code name.

 

[jsedlak]

I would like your theory to be true, but wasn't it the same case with Windows 7? Everyone was so sure they would use a "real" name for the OS upon release, but they called it 7.

It's Windows Server 2008 R2, not Windows 7 Server.

Honestly it doesn't matter to me. Calling it Windows Server 8 would make it fall in line with Windows Phone 7.

 

[Nothinman]

It's Windows Server 2008 R2, not Windows 7 Server.

Honestly it doesn't matter to me. Calling it Windows Server 8 would make it fall in line with Windows Phone 7.

Except that they're not comparable or even remotely related products or SKUs...

 

[imagoon]

Other than a few improvements in cpu and ram counts, I don't see it as a VMWare killer. Improving yes.

* from the article

The live migration / storage migration etc might make it close if not equal. I am hoping that they make it easier though, VMWare still has one up'd them in ease of set up on some of these things.

 

[MeSoSneaky]

Using VmWare currently, no use trying hyper-v.

 

[notposting]

Windows Server Metro!

 

[imagoon]

Windows Server Metro!

The "metro" thing is driving me nuts. Running it in a VM, I keep over shooting the tiny edges that make stuff pop up. If it was a real monitor where my mouse couldn't walk off the edge of the screen it might work a lot better. Esp annoying since they are saying how fantastic Win Server 8 is in VM's and how it was designed from the ground up for it.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Good article on server 8 hyperV.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/content1/topic/windows-server-8-hyperv-141821/catpath/windowsserver8

It probably isn't better than vmware but definitely catching up!