mature and therefore I would assume more stable and feature rich. We
currently have about 20 virtual servers on 4 VMWare boxes. We only need 3
for the 20 but the 4th allows one to fail and we can continue to run all of
our servers on the remaining 3. We use VCenter to manage them all in one
place and management couldn't be much easier.
For something as mission critical as your virtualization software, I don't
think money should be your deciding factor unless one solution is simply too
expensive.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Microsoft's product to answer your
question directly, but I hope you find this helpful.
Tom Phelan
Director of Technology
Peddie School
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Kory Mohr <wispdir@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, we're currently running three ESX servers based on our recently
> upgraded license from Enterprise to Enterprise Plus. The academic pricing
> for VMware is very attractive. We upgraded since VMware currently has a
> special that'll allow you 50 View 4.5 seats per Enterprise Plus upgrade. If
> you're considering VDI (virtual desktop initiative), you can utilize the
> overall vSphere environment for both servers and desktops. We're running
> the overall enviro on two NetApp FAS2020 filers via iSCSI (utilizing NFS)
> and an older Dell PowerVault MD3000i (using VMFS) for our SAN storage for 30
> servers and, currently, 30 VDI VMs.
>
> We chose VMware over Hyper-V for the high availability and distributed
> resource capabilities with minimal, manual intervention as well as it being
> a more mature and stable platform, IMHO. The scripting and management tools
> are fantastic as well as the overall developer/user communities.
>
> Happy to discuss our enviro in detail as well.
>
> Regards,
> Kory (Mohr)
> Network/Sys Admin
> St. Catherine's School
> Richmond, VA.
>
> On 11/5/2010 11:10 AM, Attwood, Bo wrote:
>
>> Our school is preparing to replace all of our servers and go to virtual
>> servers. We have two proposals from two companies. One is proposing to use
>> our Microsoft Blanket License to save us money on server software the other
>> company wants to use VMware claiming it is more stable than the Microsoft
>> equivalent. This will be more expensive for us so is there a real advantage
>> to going with VMware over Microsoft?
>>
>>
>> Bo Attwood
>> Chief Technology Coordinator
>> Carolina Day School
>> 1345 Hendersonville Road
>> Asheville, NC 28803
>> 828-210-9159
>> www.cdschool.org
>> battwood@cdschool.org
>>
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