Bet the Farm

**Gumby** · 03-27-10, 05:22 AM

Ok,
So I am building a new server for the house to run a VM server farm.
I have all my hardware and now my big issue is the platform.
My big delima is Windows Server Core w/Hyper V or ESXi?

I have a Technet subscription so cost of the OS is not an issue.
I lean toward Hyper V, just because I have never worked with it before. I get to work with a big ass ESX farm at work every day.
I know I lose memory deduplication and memory the memory ballooning with Hyper V, but I think that is all I miss out on. I am only going to be running about 8-10 VMs all the time so I dont think I will be memory constrained.
Thoughts?

**WileECyte** · 03-27-10, 10:10 AM

HyperV is Mickey Mouse compared to VMWare. I'd go with the industry leader.

**Gumby** · 03-27-10, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

HyperV is Mickey Mouse compared to VMWare. I'd go with the industry leader.

someone hasn't been keeping up lately.

The free version of ESX only has the advantage of memory deduplication.
I totally agree with you when it comes to the "real" version.

Ended up with the Hyper V running on top of Server 2008 Core because I had an unexpected substitution on my mobo and the NIC was not on their HCL.
Oh well.

**_BuRn_** · 03-27-10, 08:14 PM

Talking about enterprise level virtualization...

You guys should seriously check out the newest stuff coming from Xen/Citrix.

I'm currently in a mix Hyper-V and ESX mixed environment, but all the newer stuff I am bringing up with XenServer and Provisioning..
I can't explain how awesome it is.

http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/pr...tentID=1686939

Also -
Quote - "Server virtualization with XenServer. Free."

Those ESX licenses are expensive...