tallygeek Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Ok guys, I have a question. I've been watching the episodes about the ESXi stuff and got to wondering if I should rethink my setup. I have a Windows 08 x64 box as my DHCP, AD, DNS and Hyper-V server. I have Hyper-V running Windows Home Server and an XP machine. I have another computer as a print server for a Ricoh RW-240WP wide format printer. This printer has to be connected to a XP box. It also has a wierd PCI controler card that connects to the printer. I have another XP box that is my file server. It has 5.4 TB of storage plus the drive for the OS. My question is this. Should I ditch the Hyper-V and install ESXi on the box and then put Server 08 on that and have it be my DHCP, DNS and file server and then have another virtual XP box to run the print server? Or should I keep the Hyper-V and put all the virtual machines on that? And, why would you prefer one to the other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Vmware has been around alot longer, so it's probably not going anywhere soon. MS really wants into the virtual server world, so hyper-v isn't going anywhere soon either. You'll most likely have better hardware support with vmware, it will also have the newer bells and whistles before hyper-v. If your setup is working for you now, why change it? I don't think you'll get any benefits to move over to vmware with your current setup. Maybe if you wanted to set up a couple more vm's then maybe change over for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopez1364 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Hyper-V Pros: Very good performance; great price Cons: Bad remote management experience; needs a better management console ESX Server 3.5 Pros: Excellent performance; easy installation; a polished management console Cons: Somewhat limited hardware support I think for something like this its a "to each their own". They both are great virtual systems and just because somebody talks about ESX on the show doesn't mean its the better system. Here are a list of virtual systems: Bochs Containers Cooperative Linux Denali DOSBox DOSEMU FreeVPS GXemul Hercules Hyper-V Imperas OVP Tools iCore Virtual Accounts Integrity Virtual Machines FreeBSD Jail JPC (Virtual Machine) KVM LinuxOnLinux Linux- VServer Logical Domains LynxSecure Mac-on-Linux Mac-on-Mac OKL4 OpenVZ Oracle VM OVPsim Padded Cell for x86 Padded Cell for PowerPC Palacios VMM Parallels Desktop for Mac Parallels Workstation PearPC PowerVM Proxmox Virtual Environment QEMU QEMU w/kqemu module QEMU w/ qvm86module QuickTransit RTS Hypervisor SimNow SIMH Simics Sun xVM Server SVISTA 2004 TRANGO User Mode Linux View-OS VDSmanager Sun xVMVirtualBox Virtual IronVirtual Iron 3.1 Virtual PC 2007 Windows Virtual PC Virtual PC 7 for Mac VirtualLogixVLX Virtual Server2005 R2 CoWare Virtual Platform Virtuozzo VMware ESX Server VMware ESXi VMware Fusion VMware Server VMware Workstation 6.0 VMware Player2.0 Wind Riverhypervisor Wind RiverVxWorks MILS Platform Xen z/VM z LPARs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhostbudd Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Can't forget Xen / XenServer in a hyper-visor competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 VMware has a far more mature management interface, and the ability to run it off a USB stick is very nice. However, the full enterprise VSphere setup is very expensive. ESXi free is still incredible though. HyperV is far cheaper, and if your a small or cash strapped MS only shop it does everything you need for 1/5th of the liscense cost alone. Can be full or core 2008, and you can get a free version that runs on core. I've not really played about with Xenserver but from what i've seen its impressive. Citrix banned me from the user portal for breaching export laws however. The best thing? Hyper-V, ESXi and Xenserver are all free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhostbudd Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 The best thing? Hyper-V, ESXi and Xenserver are all free. Yep, which means you can test them all and see which is ideal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3N Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 i prefer vmware its just awesome and easy and stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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