Tag: Microsoft

Microsoft vs. VMware in survey battle

There is an interesting article published on Server & Cloud blog at Microsoft titled Survey data in NetworkWorld says: Watch out VMware, because Microsoft is coming. The whole article is full of statistics about a survey taken at VMworld 2012 and the result are quite interesting.

Ping Multiple Servers with Uptime via PowerShell script

Another great script provided to the community this time author is Abhishek Borole. From the title of the article you clearly understand what this script does. Just download it from here, test it in your test environment so you can use it in your daily in your production environment.

Linux Integration Services Version 3.4 for Hyper-V

There is new version of the Hyper-V drivers for Linux virtual machines. Download is available here.

VMware Users are vTax free… power to the customers

It seems the top 3 news from VMworld 2012 are:

  • vTax is removed
  • vTax is removed
  • vTax is removed

For me this decision comes a little bit too late but better late than never. As soon as I saw this news I cannot get out of my mind that somehow Microsoft contributed a lot for this to happen. For a long time VMware denied that Microsoft and Hyper-V are competitor and this wasn’t the best strategy. And now with this decision we know officially that VMware are looking at Microsoft as their primary competitor. Of course statements like this VMware: Microsoft’s “Good Enough” Approach Isn’t Good Enough will continue to emerge simply because this is a marketing game also. But lets take that statement and pretend it is true – VMware products are far far superior than Microsoft’s ones. In such case VMware is beating Microsoft at technology level but they still loose at price level even without vTax and what business looks when it buys a solutions is the Return of Investments and in most business scenarios Microsoft is the winner against VMware for a various reasons.

I personally like most of  VMware’s products and they are very good products but some of them come at a high price which can be a show stopper. It is good that they finally realized that nobody likes vTax and I am giving them thumbs up for that. As they now recognize Microsoft as competitor this could bring a lot of benefits to the users for both product because better than competition is the good competition.

Lets the battle begin.

Virtual Machine Generation ID Documentation

Virtual Machine Generation ID is a new technology that is present on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. This is the technology which will allows to have virtual Domain Controllers on Server 2012. You can find the documentation about this technology here.