Series: Hyper-v, not in my Datacenter part3


Gabrie heeft part3 gepost.

In part 3 of this series, I want to shed a light on the difference between the types of Migration in ESX and Hyper-V and the differences in storage between the both of them. Although I think most of the readers know the differences, I will start with a brief summary.

  • Hyper-V QuickMigration: When you want to move a running Virtual Machine from one host to another with as little downtime as possible, you can use QuickMigration. On host-A the VM will be suspended to disk, and then host-B will unsuspend the VM and run it.
  • Hyper-V & ESX Cold Migration: Moving a VM that is not running, to different host and/or different storage.
  • ESX VMotion: Moving of a running VM to a different host, without downtime.
  • ESX Storage VMotion: Moving the disks of a VM to different storage without downtime (VM doesn’t move).

Lees de rest hier: http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=107

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Series: Hyper-v, not in my Datacenter part2


 

Gabrie heeft Part 2 gepost van zijn serie Hyper-v, not in my Datacenter.

Guest OS

After you installed your hypervisor you want to virtualize your physical servers on it. When doing the research for my presentation I was very surprised to find some strange limitations in which guest are supported with Hyper-V. Can you believe that not all Windows Server versions are supported? Well neither could I.

The guest OS support of Hyper-V:

  • Windows 2000 Server is only supported with SP4 and 1 CPU.
  • Windows 2003 Server is only supported with SP2 and 1 or 2 CPUs.
  • Windows 2008 Server is supported with 1, 2 and 4 CPUs.
  • and there is Linux support for SUSE Linux Server 10 sp1 / sp2 with only 1 CPU.

This does look quite reasonable at first glance, because these are current versions. True, but when looking at the ESX environment I work in now, we would not be able to virtualize as many servers as we have running on ESX right now

Part 2 vind je hier: http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=104#more-104

Series: Hyper-v, not in my Datacenter part1


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Gabrie van Zanten (www.gabesvirtualworld.com) is bezig met een serie over Hyper-V, not in my Datacenter.

I’ve written about Hyper-V and ESX is an objective view on how things are at the moment, but still it looks like the only thing I’m doing is Windows-bashing. I decided to dedicate a blog post to it, so everyone can find out for them self if my points are valid. The big question of my presentation is: “Which is better for my datacenter, Hyper-V or ESX?”.
I’m looking at both hypervisors to see which features they have that would make them suited for running in the datacenter discounting nice features that I would rarely use.  Here we go…….

Part 1 kun je hier vinden: http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=103#more-103.

Uit betrouwbare bron heb ik vernomen, dat morgen Part 2 gepost gaat worden. Dus hou www.gabesvirtualworld.com in de gaten.