VMware have released an official KB regarding the problem that we have all known about for
ummm… how long is it already :) ?
I guess that all the traffic that Joep Piscaer was getting on his blog post on the subject will start to slow down now.
VMware – we are still waiting on a permanent fix for this!
With the Virtualization world buzzing and with latest Microsoft announcement from today that the Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server will be completely free of charge (and will come with Live Migration and HA) and the prices and licensing of vSphere
A few questions have come up:
Here is how I see it. If you look at the table that was provided on the post above then the direction in which Microsoft is going is becoming clear.
They presented this table:
Now if we compare any vSphere product that has HA and VMotion – the lowest level possible would be Advanced so the prices seem right (and we will not mention the fact that there is no VC license in here). I am not going into features and everything other reason to continue using VMware.
For the SMB market – the additional feature set is nice but, and especially in times like these, the bottom line will be $$$. And unfortunately for VMware in this battle they are not coming out on top
– not by a long shot….
But as always this is the nature of competition and the open market – as soon as another player comes into the equation – the competition between them grows – and in the end – we all benefit, because prices drop.
My bottom line.. VMware is the Rolls-Royce of Virtualization – and anyone that says different needs their head examined. The new kid on the block (and yes believe me they are here) is Microsoft, and Citrix Xensource in my eyes is becoming less and less of a major player.
Being a Rolls is nice – but not everyone can afford it – and those that cannot – will look for something that will save them money – and sometimes at the expense of functionality. Does this change my view of what is the better technology – no it does not, but this is not the purpose of the post.
So for all those folks in Palo Alto – I think it is time to start looking over your shoulder, the competition is creeping up on you…
Extra Layers – cost more – Bah Rubbish !! It is the Enterprise features that Hyper-V (even in R2 – that to remind you all is at least 6 months away) does not have - that makes it all worthwhile!
Over Commit – don’t nag about something you cannot do. How many times do we have say this? This is a feature that we use. All the time and enjoy using it – and we get better results than you bring about in your video.
You are going to get bashed again with this one… Come on Blogosphere. Bring it on!!!!!!
Last week Azure went down for 22 hours – and this Microsoft’s Cloud solution.
Reading Hoff’s post I learned that the reason that this happened was:
What Happened?
During a routine operating system upgrade on Friday (March 13th), the deployment service within Windows Azure began to slow down due to networking issues. This caused a large number of servers to time out and fail.
How much do you all want to bet that this “routine operating system upgrade” was a patch installation that Microsoft released? Bets please….
This has been mentioned in several places ..
DO YOU WANT TO RELY ON A WINDOWS OS AS THE VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM FOR YOUR ENTERPRISE???
If you have to patch your host for vulnerabilities that are discovered every second day (and that is not say that Microsoft does not do a good job in fixing them) and are patched for stupid things like this? (yes the patch is relevant for Windows Server 2008 – and it requires a reboot!!)