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Daniele Vistalli:
I agree with your analysis but this is just the beginning.
At this time I see hardware vendors endorsing VMWare (because it's king of the hill) and Hyper-V (because it's microsoft).
They privately agree that Hyper-V is not going to be the killer app but even analysts says that Hyper-V is going to steal some marketshare from others.
Nobody at this time wanted to answer me on a pretty simple topic. How do you handle windows updates in an Hyper-V enviroment, do you restart your complete virtualization infrastructure, do you disable updates. And what's the performance of virtual disks stored in NTFS ?
There's a lot of practical questions that everybody attempts to avoid. But to me it seems that Hyper-V will sell a lot of course but the real adoption will be limited, at least for the first year of it's life.
Tony Asaro:
Daniele,
Yes - there are a number of unknowns and fundamental questions that are yet to be answered. And I agree that Microsoft will get market share as a default - because they are a giant - but that will not tell the real story. Today Microsoft has a number of server virtualization customers but once you look beyond the covers much of it is for limited and non-production deployments.
As you state - you believe it will be at least a year for real adoption - and we all know that one year easily turns into two and maybe even three.
Certainly, I am interested in VI being successful and the slower Microsoft gets to market the better off we are. Having said that -there are real market considerations with any new product - and I must say we've seen these things painfully played out before with Microsoft. There is no reason in the world to assume that Hyper-V will be the bee's knees for some time to come. That is why understanding the reality and getting passed the hype is essential.
mrvirtualization:
Hi,
What make Hyper-V even worse, is how difficult and time wasting to run Linux with acceptable performance on it. If you just give a look at http://www.itcomparison.com/blg/?p=11 which describe how to install SUSE Linux 10 SP1 on hyper-v in brief you will discover how much pain you have to go into doing so. I hope that will warn you before you go deep in it.
Enjoy,
mrvirtualizaiton
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