I'll have to setup a Hyper-V for testing. The reason I'm leading towards VMWare is I have dabbled a bit with it. My son is also fairly proficient in it.
Thanks for the input.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 5:22:59 PM, you wrote:
I know this is an emotional issue for most, Mac vs PC, Windows vs Linux, Hatfield vs Mccoy. that being said...
Few things!
- If you run VMWARE you still need to buy Windows Licenses...
- I prefer one throat to choke. If you have a Windows VM running on a Microsoft Hyper-V environment and something goes wrong, I can very easily get support from Microsoft. If I have a Windows VM running on VMWARE I'm caught in the middle of pointing fingers. Now these days both have excellent compatibility and even ubuntu support Hyper-V very well so there is little difference in performance / functionality.
- Being a Windows Guy, I think you'll find Hyper-V easier to support.
All of this is my humble opinion. You really can't go wrong but I think cost wise you will be ahead with Hyper-V.
Sincerely,
Dustin
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Dustin,
What is your thoughts on Hyper-V vs VMWare. To be honest, I'm more comfortable in a windows environment. Almost all my VMs are windows OSs at the moment. I do have a couple of Ubuntu servers running. Be interested in why you went Hyper-V over VMWare? I think VMWare has the larger market share.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 2:53:39 PM, you wrote:
I know we do that with native Hyper-V and it always seem strange to me that if you are running Microsoft VM's you have to purchase Microsoft Datacenter licenses and VMWARE, but I understand some applications are only supported under VMWARE. That being said we use altaro for unattended backups (Microsoft and Linux) and they have a VMWARE version you might want to check out.
Good Luck,
Dustin
Dustin Jurman
CEO
(NEW ADDRESS)
Rapid Systems Corporation
1801 N Himes Ave
Tampa, FL 33607
Ph: 813-232-4887
http://www.rapidsys.com
“Building Better Infrastructure”
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 2:41:53 PM
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Subject: [AFMUG] VMWare
We had a slight electric issue yesterday. Messed up some of our
VM servers. I got things rigged back together, but I need to build a more
robust VM system.
I'm look to move into the VMWare world. I think Vmware Vsphere
Essentials Plus is the route I need to go. I may be able to get away
with just Essentials, but the extra tools may help.
Any thoughts on setup. Currently we run RAID10 on each VM Host and
backup to a NAS. I'm thinking I'll keep that setup for the VMWare.
If I get Essentials Plus will I be able to to HOT backups of running
VMs or is that a third party thing?
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