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VMware "Miles Ahead" of Microsoft Virtual Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the virtualize-this dept.

sunshineluv7 writes, "IT managers gathered in New York City earlier this week to get advice from experts on when, why, and how to virtualize their server environments. The takeaway from the conference: if you want to run an enterprise-class virtualization platform in production today, stick with VMware." Other wise words from this conference: "Virtualization is a journey, not a project."

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  1. Re:virtual bsod? by Jehosephat2k · · Score: 3, Insightful

    BSODs only crash the virtual environment, not the host machine.

  2. Re:In all objectivity... by TheLinuxSRC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Although VMware appears to be better for now, will it have the same level of support and compatibility that Microsoft provides?

    If you are referring to compatibility amongst MS products I suspect the answer would be yes, it will probably work great for running MS products on top of MS products. However, keeping in mind MS' contempt for their customers coupled with the fact that MS has a very very difficult time "playing fair" with any competitors, I would assume that anything other than a MS product that you try to run will fail. It will not fail miserably or refuse to install, it will just be "buggy" and MS will point the finger squarely at whatever "unsupported" OS it is that you are using. Now as far as compatibilty goes, could you elaborate what you mean there? MS is famous for not being compatible with anything (including older MS software itself). You will also want to keep in mind that VMWare has been doing this for a long time. This is Internet2 for MS -- they missed the boat big-time and are now trying to catch up.

  3. Re:VMWare is no good by burnt_cajun_toast · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've used VMWare and found that you might need to change some of the install options for Redhat (or Suse for that matter) to get them to install in VMWare. A few were ACPI=off, IDE=nodma and sometimes it was just a video option and the installs worked just fine.

  4. Real Virtual by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where's the study/chart contrasting VMWare with Xen virtualization? Those are the two to watch - Microsoft will just copy whichever one (or features) serves MS better.

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  5. Oh yeah? by duffer_01 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whoever came up with this has never tried to install DB2 in VMWare. Good luck with that.

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