{"id":1099,"date":"2008-06-27T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/why-hyper-v-does-not-mean-the-end-of-vmware-but-at-last-it-provides-some-competition-for-esx.htm"},"modified":"2008-06-27T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:23:19","slug":"why-hyper-v-does-not-mean-the-end-of-vmware-but-at-last-it-provides-some-competition-for-esx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/why-hyper-v-does-not-mean-the-end-of-vmware-but-at-last-it-provides-some-competition-for-esx.htm","title":{"rendered":"Why Hyper-V does not mean the end of VMware &#8211; but at last it provides some competition for ESX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been very careful in its statements about comparing Hyper-V with ESX.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=9194\">Jason Perlow&#8217;s Hyper-V review<\/a> is a little more forthright and the graphics are great!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that VMware is the new Netscape (although <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jamesone\/archive\/2008\/06\/26\/are-people-already-ganging-up-on-vmware.aspx\">it seems IDC might think so<\/a>) &#8211; they will be back with bigger and better things, and then Microsoft will push forward again in the next release of Hyper-V.  Even so, all of a sudden, this is a two horse race, and VMware <em>will<\/em> start to see their market share decline.<\/p>\n<p>And to all those who are comparing Hyper-V with VMware Virtual Infrastructure &#8211; get real &#8211; that&#8217;s not comparing apples with apples.  More realistic comparisons are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hyper-V and ESX.<\/li>\n<li>Hyper-V Server (not yet released) and ESXi.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Infrastucture and Hyper-V plus various System Center components.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for the argument that it&#8217;s all about TCO, I&#8217;ll leave that to the vendors and analysts to go into the detail but, from a simplistic view, Hyper-V and System Center are much less expensive to purchase than Virtual Infrastructure 3, the technical skills required for support are less specialised (read less expensive) and I find it hard to see how a broad management suite like Microsoft System Center is more expensive to run than a virtualisation-only management product like VMware Virtual Center together with the other products that will be required to manage the workload itself.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say that virtualisation is about more than just the hypervisor and that management is important (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/fujitsu-opinion-on-virtualisation.htm\">it certainly is<\/a>), then they deride Hyper-V (which is really just a hypervisor and basic management tools) by comparing it to virtual infrastructure&#8217;s management features. Their next argument is typically that Hyper-V won&#8217;t support desktop virtualisation and, from what I&#8217;ve seen, Microsoft is pretty much there on a credible solution for that too &#8211; as well as profile, presentation and application virtualisation, with partners like Citrix, Quest and AppSense filling in the gaps.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all over for VMware but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/147569\/kiss_vmwares_rump_goodbye.html\">they do need to find a new business model<\/a>.  Quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been very careful in its statements about comparing Hyper-V with ESX. Jason Perlow&#8217;s Hyper-V review is a little more forthright and the graphics are great! I don&#8217;t think that VMware is the new Netscape (although it seems IDC might think so) &#8211; they will be back with bigger and better things, and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/why-hyper-v-does-not-mean-the-end-of-vmware-but-at-last-it-provides-some-competition-for-esx.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Hyper-V does not mean the end of VMware &#8211; but at last it provides some competition for ESX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[76,2],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hyper-v","tag-vmware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Hyper-V does not mean the end of VMware - but at last it provides some competition for ESX - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/why-hyper-v-does-not-mean-the-end-of-vmware-but-at-last-it-provides-some-competition-for-esx.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Hyper-V does not mean the end of VMware - but at last it provides some competition for ESX - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Microsoft has been very careful in its statements about comparing Hyper-V with ESX. 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