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I have been a committed VMware vSphere and Workstation user for years.\u00a0 The majority of the infrastructure at itgroove is built on vSphere as is that at many of our customers.\u00a0 I have used the products since the very early days, even before P2V tools were widely available, and it has been a (mostly) satisfying experience.\u00a0 Hyper-V never really poked its head above the horizon, as far as I was concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, and yet \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Hyper-V 2012 (on top of Server 2012 and Windows 8) has really got my interest as well as that of itgroove as a whole.\u00a0 I have gone so far as to convert the Workstation VM\u2019s on my Windows 8 laptop to Hyper-V and uninstalled Workstation and I have a decent Hyper-V lab going at home.\u00a0 While I find the basic tools for Hyper-V to be a bit \u201clacking\u201d when compared to vSphere, the overall experience of creating, using and managing Hyper-V VM\u2019s has been quite positive.\u00a0 And when you start to play with features like \u201cshared-nothing\u201d Live Migration things become quite awesome.\u00a0 Add in the kinds of things you can do with Hyper-V and Veeam and it all becomes pretty compelling.<\/span><\/p>\n

To my mind it now becomes hard to justify the additional cost involved to bring up a Server 2012 environment on top of vSphere when the goodness of Hyper-V comes \u201cbaked in\u201d to the Server 2012 licenses\u00a0 (two Hyper-V VM\u2019s with Server 2012 Standard and \u201cunlimited\u201d Hyper-V VM\u2019s with Server 2012 Datacenter) and no extra licensing is required to utilize Veeam with Hyper-V (except, of course, the Veeam license itself).\u00a0 In order to use Veeam with vSphere you have to purchase vSphere licensing, Veeam won\u2019t operate with the \u201cfree\u201d hypervisor.\u00a0 vSphere Essentials gives you licensing for up to three hosts and a (limited) vCentre but that is already an added cost above and beyond the cost of the Windows Server licensing.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make a comparison to the auto industry, no one has ever accused Microsoft of following Hyundai or Kia\u2019s marketing strategy of loading up features and then undercutting the competition on price but that is exactly what is happening with Server 2012 and Hyper-V.\u00a0 And just as the Korean\u2019s have freaked out the \u201cestablished\u201d auto industry leaders with their runaway success I think we are going to see the same thing with Hyper-V and vSphere \u2013 VMware has to be more than a bit concerned.\u00a0 And if Microsoft then does the smart thing and buys out Citrix (for their tools stack, not for Xen itself), well then it\u2019ll probably be game, set and match.<\/span><\/p>\n

itgroove will be blogging about our experiences with Hyper-V so stay tuned!\u00a0 See the itgroove blogs (https:\/\/www.itgroove.net\/cm s\/company\/learnmore\/blogs<\/a>) for more on Hyper-V, SharePoint, Cloud computing and many other topics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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