Comments on: The Truth About Storage Hot Add and Remove

By: thomasseyar

thomasseyar — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:59:26 +0000

Most NAS have iSCSI capabilities today, so no support for storing ISO on a SMB/CIFS NFS share is not a big deal.
CSV works just fine => FUD
OVF => SCVMM can manage ESX machines as well as Hyper-V ones

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:02:09 +0000

@Phil:
If it’s good enough, that’s the whole point. I do agree agree on the pricing (Enterprise Plus is just a lame SKU) of ESX 4.

I’m playing with it in a serious setup for a presentation on Hyper-V R2 and for people coming from a VMware environment you quickly get a big list of WTFs:
Why no proper support for storing ISO files on a SMB/CIFS (or my preference:) NFS share?
Why not simply license something like MelioFS? CSV more or less works but it requires a lot of configuration steps and it’s not very transparent. It feels very much like a hack.
Why no support for OVF files?
And I’ve run into more things which rather annoyed me.

I expect a more polished product from Microsoft.

By: The Truth About VM SAN Transfers | VCritical

The Truth About VM SAN Transfers | VCritical — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:07:09 +0000

[...] the tradition of the recent storage hot add/remove claims, Microsoft has again gone the extra mile to give the appearance of feature [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:59:26 +0000

How does one extend a VHD with Hyper-V R2, then? Is there really no way to do it?

Meeting needs is definitely important. Maybe it’s just a coincidence but most of my work the past 4-5 months has revolved around extending C: and D: drives on our Windows VMs and using Storage VMotion to move VMs to new storage arrays and new datastores. If we had to have downtime for all of those operations I’d still be buried under the requests (or working every night!)

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:01:21 +0000

Marcel: “…just me-too functionality”

Nothing wrong with me-too functionaility when it meets your needs at quarter of the price of the competition.

By: Bobbi Perrin

Bobbi Perrin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:57:38 +0000

The hot add – extend features to me are the coolest innovations since sliced bread. I had the experience of having to hot add space to a running VM the other day. I extended the space in VM settings then used CLI commands to add the space to the OS while it was running. So totally cool! Microsoft Hyper-V can’t touch this!

By: PiroNet

PiroNet — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:42:45 +0000

@Marcel Funny you say ‘just me-too functionality’. It is so true actually. Since the beginning of this great era Microsoft is trying to catch up. No innovation, just copying others. They missed the wagon of virtualization, bundled an hypervizor bought from Connectix into a general purpose OS and tells everybody ‘me-too’ but once you read between the lines you discover that it’s pretty much a ‘almost me-too functionality’ … Bummer

By: Marcel

Marcel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:12:13 +0000

A timely article for me as well. I got a question from a student about this, when we covered this topic on the VMware platform. Again this proves to me that Hyper-V is mostly a “defensive” technology and there’s no real innovation, just me-too functionality.

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:03:58 +0000

So glad I could catch you in time, Jason!

By: Jason Boche

Jason Boche — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:21:45 +0000

Yes, I was in fact wondering about Hyper-V’s approach. How did you read my mind? Thank you for the information. I was just about to roll out Hyper-V but now I have changed my mind based on this information.