For one or another bizar reason the comparisions Hyper-V vs. ESX went public. A nice article on this discussion was posted by Peter Bruzesse on inforworld. The article was completely non biased and it was kept to the facts. Unfortunately once again some MS-addicts and VMW-addicts managed to get into a competing conversation on which technology was the best.
Personally I can understand that you prefer one brand over another, but that you start comparing a brand on features, that is way beyond my understanding. It is not the brand that counts, it is a solution that counts. This virtualization solution should fit the current and future requirements of the business, must be easy to manage, … clearly this decission can not be taken on feature-level. Below is an overview of our short reply to all the posts that Peter got on his article:
As a channel manager for a distributor in Europe we often get confronted with channelplayers that do not see which solution/brand to propose. Comparing the products on feature-level is not the best way. It all depends if you require an engine or a car like Simon Crosby often states.
Seen the fact that VMware has been in this market much longer than other brands, it is normal that they are leader. When new technology comes out, it is normal that everybody gets on this wagon and chooses that brand as there is no alternative.
If a company needs to take a decision regarding a brand/solution, expressions like “we’ve swapped 7000 VMs from datacenter 1 to datacenter 2 over a super high speed link 100km away” are totally irrelevant.
Decisions for a solution or a brand should be based on the current and future requirements of the business, the TCO, ROI manageability, ecosystem of the solution, …
There are three major players running around in the ballpark right now: Citrix, Microsoft and VMware and others following . But in the long term it will not be the hypervisor that will be the winner, it will be the business that once again gets in the driverseat and IT needs to align to this driverseat.
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