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Over 10 years ago
Answered a question: VMware vs. Hyper-V - Which do you prefer?
It really depends on how you plan to use virtualization and what OSes you plan to virtualize. I would say do your own homework, cost analysis, functional testing, etc. The cost of each solution can be different for everyone when you take EVERYTHING into account. Today you…
Almost 11 years ago
Thanks for the feedback guys but please don't take what I wrote out of context. I said "I found Hyper-V to be a bit more complex to configure some of the features that vSphere seems to make really simple like High Availability (HA) which requires the Failover Clustering…
About 11 years ago
There is no limit that I know of but you can only manage from powershell to be totally free. No the most optimal for most people but you could license a server and use hyper-v manager to manage the free hyperv hosts. And you have to license all windows guests you virtualize…
About 11 years ago
If your just looking at virtualization licensing cost with hyper-v 2012 it's not too hard to calculate but with anything it can get more complicated depending on the environment. You could use the free version of hyper-v server, get windows 2012 server standard for *limited…
Over 11 years ago
Commented on EMC Avamar has lots of Ying but not so much Yang
NP henry. The product is very expensive but it's a great product once you get to know it. It may seem a bit confusing at first and though it is complex under the hood you should start seeing better backups and restores right away. Not to mention, you don't have to worry as…
Over 11 years ago
Commented on EMC Avamar has lots of Ying but not so much Yang
Avamar 6 is pretty stable and adds some need UI features, like add AD users and groups to the administrator console.
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IT Professional for over 12 years working with Windows Server 2000+, Clustering Solutions (Windows), SAN environments (EMC & HP), Virtualiztion (VMware), HP Servers & Blades, scripting with Python, Linux (Fedora & Redhat), IaaS, Datacenter Systems Management, and Disaster Recovery. Deploy, manage and monitoring of Hadoop ecosystem.
Specialties: VMware vSphere, Servers & Blades infrastructure, IaaS
