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By: one of many

one of many — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:16:00 +0000

Tony – What you don’t like Vmware FUD? Hmmm its funny when other companies start playing the MS marketing way…. MS has been spreading FUD for years about other companies competing in there space…. Think Novell, linux with TCO studies etc… What about the 10 myths about vmware vs hyper-v…. Oh yeah hyper-v does need live migration, our poll of users show they don’t use vmware vmotion during business hours… So its ok to have downtime at night. Yeah right… Now its like our next hyper-v product can do it.. Whats vmware talking about we don’t do live migration? …… Oh yeah thats right the next version isn’t released yet and still in beta..

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:12:57 +0000

Bobbi, Tony: thank you both for reading and commenting.

I think we can all agree that competition is good and let’s hope that it continues indefinitely. Look what happened to the desktop OS and business productivity suite markets when viable alternatives dried up.

By: Bobbi Perrin

Bobbi Perrin — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:30:04 +0000

Hi Tony,

To be accurate, I work for a company that integrates with all virtualization operating system technologies – Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, Parallels Virtuozzo, Citrix XenServer just to name a few.

I get to install, configure and test Xsigo Systems Virtual I/O hardware / software solution against all the virtualization operating systems named above, not just VMware ESX Server.

VMware ESX Server is still far ahead of the pack, however that does not mean that VMware does not face credible competition – IMHO Citrix XenServer has a viable competitive operating system and virtualization management solution.

I get to beta test upcoming solutions as well and from what I have seen, vSphere 4.0 makes VMware ESX Server / vCenter Server features even better, more intuitive, manageable and stable.

My father told me a long time ago that you get what you pay for. If you are only willing to spend the money necessary for a ‘cheap’ product or solution be prepared to get what you paid for. Quality solutions to me are not necessarily cheap but then again there *are free versions of VMware products that do what Hyper-V does…. ESXi and VMware Server to name a few….

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:03:57 +0000

Bobbi,

1) You are biased because you are developing software for VMware, and thus you want people to use it as opposed to Hyper-V.

2) Less than 10% of people in the world drive luxury cars and care to have V8 6 liter engines… 90% of people drive cheap cars. They don’t need all that – they need cheap solution that is “good enough”.

Eric,

I agree that Microsoft marketing sucks because of constant BS like inflated numbers, fake polls, etc. However, I am not happy about VMware marketing either. I tired of the endless and baseless FUD VMware is pushing, like the latest story about Hyper-V BSOD.

So if you want my unbiassed view, I personally think it will be fair to say that VMware and Microsoft marketing worth each other.

Thank you for your blog, keep up the good job.

By: Bobbi Perrin

Bobbi Perrin — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:00:47 +0000

Very interesting post Eric. I see how Microsoft ‘pads’ their numbers…. my answer is … ‘show me the money’!

Show me revenue that strictly is coming from Hyper-V. Don’t count forced software update downloads or artificially count Hyper-V sales by stating that everyone who purchased Windows 2008 Server – are using Hyper-V because this just isn’t true.

Hyper-V cannot even remotely compare to the blazing speeds, ease of installation and use, management capabilities, and the breadth and depth of the feature sets that the upcoming vSphere 4.0 possesses.