Tag: Virtualization

Microsoft Private Cloud vs. VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management Suite products

This battle of giants is inevitable. From my point of view both sides have solid statements. Personally I prefer Microsoft Private Cloud as I think it provides more business value. Only the time will show who will prevail but I think Microsoft are currently the leading side with System Center 2012 and with the upcoming Windows Server 2012 they will provide a very solid solution for Private Cloud. An indication that Microsoft is starting to be the leader not the follower in this area is this statement from VMware’s CTO, Dr. Stephen Herrod at a recent VMUGIT event (scroll to the YouTube video at 3:12):

“VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don’t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don’t look the same, some install differently, and what I can’t stand that is Site Recovery Manager doesn’t currently work with vCloud Director. So, what we are basically able to say is that we created and acquired companies that led to a lot of individual products that don’t work well enough together yet.”

This statement is important not because Dr. Herrod is pointing the flaws in their products but because in their next releases in these products they will try to integrate them together and sell them as one products a strategy which Microsoft already applied to System Center 2012.

This statement is taken from an MS article titled “The facts about the value of a Microsoft private cloud”. You can read by your self and decide which product gives more business value.

You can also try this tool http://servervirtualization.cloudapp.net/ to calculate the costs between the products. Similar tool provided by VMware can be found here: http://www.vmware.com/technology/whyvmware/calculator/.

Note form VMware Calculator: Price lists and modeling assumptions are valid as of July 12, 2011. Future results could be different as pricing and other assumptions based on industry averages may change.’

This means the the calculator was not updated with the pricing for System Center 2012.

Consideration when Deploying App-V 5.0 Beta

If you want to test App-V 5.0 beta Anurag Juneja from Microsoft wrote an article what components you have to have on the server before starting deployment. Check it out here.

Building Cloud Infrastructure with Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 and Introducing Windows Server “8” Hyper-V Network Virtualization: Enabling Rapid Migration and Workload Isolation in the Cloud

I’ve stumbled on two great articles by Jeffrey Snover from Windows Server Team. In order to understand the first article you have to mindshift from the current model how IT service is delivered. The second article will give you look in the latest Network technologies:

Introduction to Hyper-V 3.0

Scott D. Lowe published a series of articles about Hyper-V 3.0. I cannot say they are deep-dive in Hyper-V 3.0 they are more like basics:

Virtualization for beginners

Microsoft Virtual Academy just released 4 new videos that will help understand virtualization even you do not know nothing about it. Click on the links and educate yourself: