New release – Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V
If you’re a Hyper-V administrator, you need all the information you can get about host and guest VM resource utilization. However, when you don’t have any Hyper-V monitoring framework in place, you still can’t afford to work blind. Veeam released a new tool for the Hyper-V admins…
How does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to the competition?
So how does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to the competition? Yesterday VMware release vSphere 5.5 which includes many new features and enhancements, again raising the bar for the competition. But how does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 6.2 or RedHat…
Hyper-V? Not in my datacenter… (continued)
In 2008 I wrote an article named “Hyper-V, not in my datacenter!” which was based on Hyper-V version 1. In 2009 I wrote an article named “Hyper-V, the laughter continues” and “ESX vs Hyper-V mythbusting myth” which was based on Hyper-V version 2. Microsoft promised/warned…
Enterprise Hypervisor comparison (RHEV added)
Back by popular demand, the Enterprise Hypervisor comparison. After the release of our latest comparison I’ve received a lot of requests to include RedHat’s RHEV to the comparison. Although I’ve never encountered it in enterprise environments, I decided to add it as a service to…
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: overpromising and underdelivering
A few weeks ago Microsoft released Windows Server 2012 and with it also Hyper-V 3. The newest release of Hyper-V has some great improvements and new features which will in some cases definitely challenge VMware. To make use of these features and to manage your…
NEW Enterprise Hypervisor comparison (2012)
Two weeks ago VMware released the new version of their vSphere hypervisor, so it’s time to update our Enterprise Hypervisor comparison. It very impressive to see how quick VMware has reacted to the Hyper-V 3 announcements and has taken most of the wind out of…
StarWind and Windows Server 2012 Scale-Out Servers
Thursday 12th there was a press release by StarWind stating “StarWind completely eliminates the need for shared storage when implementing Windows Server 2012 Scale-out file servers”. At first, while reading the title, I was a bit confused. Starwind itself offers shared storage solutions with it’s…
VMGuru.nl at Microsoft’s Techdays 2012
Last weekend I received an invitation to attend the Microsoft Techdays 2012 in The Hague (Netherlands). Because I’d like to keep a broad view and I want to be able to evaluate and judge techniques based on a complete solution, I changed my calender and…
Updated Enterprise hypervisor comparison
During the last few years we published several Enterprise Hypervisor comparisons and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. With the release of vSphere 5, XenServer 6 and a service pack for Hyper-V it was time for an update. It very interesting to…
New Enterprise Hypervisor comparison
Last year we published an Enterprise Hypervisor comparison and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. During the last few weeks I received many update requests so I decided to update the old hypervisor comparison but this time I changed the setup…
Hyper-V R2 vs vSphere: A feature comparison
At the end of May of this year we wrote a article concerning Hypervisor comparisons and we got a lot of positive feedback on it. The downside to that is that people want an update as soon as one of the companies launches a new…
Project VRC: Clock drift and test results
Project Virtual Reality Check finally posted a new document about previous results and possible clock drift when using the “Login Virtual Session Indexer (VSI)”. Previous test setups and results didn’t take into account how different hypervisors handle passing time. In my opinion this is a…
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has been Released To Manufacturing
I was checking out the news and was checking out the competition on Microsoft’s Virtualization Team Blog and ran into some interesting news. Microsoft just announced that their Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft hyper-V Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing. I guess…
Free Hyper-V training from Microsoft
I use TWeetDeck on my laptop to follow the news concerning virtualization. vSphere, Hyper-V and Xen have their own column. It’s because of these queries I noticed a tweet from @ilijabrajkovic about a free Hyper-V training from Microsoft.
Hyper-V: Do you want to run HA OR Linux?
Last night, after my son’s first birthday, I checked my missed twitter messages and a retweet from Duncap Epping caught my eye. It was a link to an article from Eric Gray on vCritical about HA for Linux guests on Hyper-V. Now you will probably…