Comments on: MS Virtualization blogs and VMotion http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/04/21/ms-virtualization-blogs-and-vmotion/ Building blocks for virtualization... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:18:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Boclin http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/04/21/ms-virtualization-blogs-and-vmotion/comment-page-1/#comment-855 Boclin Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:48:07 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=163#comment-855 [???] Vmotion only work fine, if somes poor applications. In real production environment the scenes are very different. Some running applications don't permit vmotion with Zero downtime. Hyper-V is very good solution and with System Center Suite, with cheaper host, will be a next big player. The main point is very easy, after one year with a lot of success cases, virtualization marketshare will be divided with Microsoft(Novell+Citrix) and VMware. [???] Vmotion only work fine, if somes poor applications. In real production environment the scenes are very different. Some running applications don’t permit vmotion with Zero downtime.

Hyper-V is very good solution and with System Center Suite, with cheaper host, will be a next big player.

The main point is very easy, after one year with a lot of success cases, virtualization marketshare will be divided with Microsoft(Novell+Citrix) and VMware.

]]> By: Things that make you go hmmmm - April 25, 2008 | VM /ETC http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/04/21/ms-virtualization-blogs-and-vmotion/comment-page-1/#comment-482 Things that make you go hmmmm - April 25, 2008 | VM /ETC Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:35:11 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=163#comment-482 [...] MS Virtualization blogs and VMotion “Indeed Microsoft can do the same with the use of Clustering. But can you live migrate virtual machines when a server needs maintenance? No, at this moment that’s not possible. In other words, you will have to wait for a suitable moment… planned downtime, probably after business hours. But in a 24×7 environment will there ever be a suitable moment? Even when your business isn’t 24×7, if there’s a possible hardware failure would you want to wait? But when you have a 8:1 consolidation ratio you probably will not be the most popular system engineer when “quick migrating” the file server or the mail server especially when these VM’s have a lot of RAM assigned.” [...] [...] MS Virtualization blogs and VMotion “Indeed Microsoft can do the same with the use of Clustering. But can you live migrate virtual machines when a server needs maintenance? No, at this moment that’s not possible. In other words, you will have to wait for a suitable moment… planned downtime, probably after business hours. But in a 24×7 environment will there ever be a suitable moment? Even when your business isn’t 24×7, if there’s a possible hardware failure would you want to wait? But when you have a 8:1 consolidation ratio you probably will not be the most popular system engineer when “quick migrating” the file server or the mail server especially when these VM’s have a lot of RAM assigned.” [...]

]]> By: Virtual Enthusiasm http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/04/21/ms-virtualization-blogs-and-vmotion/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Virtual Enthusiasm Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:37:20 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=163#comment-470 <strong>How far can VMware push the envelope?...</strong> I was reading a post by Duncan over at Yellow Bricks about the whole Microsoft blogs trying to compare Quick Migrate to Vmotion from VMware. I found it funny because there really is no comparison at this point. Quick migration is maybe quick, but it is... How far can VMware push the envelope?…

I was reading a post by Duncan over at Yellow Bricks about the whole Microsoft blogs trying to compare Quick Migrate to Vmotion from VMware. I found it funny because there really is no comparison at this point. Quick migration is maybe quick, but it is…

]]> By: Clint Eschberger http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/04/21/ms-virtualization-blogs-and-vmotion/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Clint Eschberger Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:01:38 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=163#comment-469 I had read that post as well and found it quite entertaining. The ability to have live migration at this time may not prevent downtime for un-planned system failures, but it saves a lot of downtime for planned outages like maintenance, predictive failures, host patching etc. Continuous Availability and SRM will bring far more to the table in the fairly near future. I personally think Microsoft is further behind than they think. They are still working to get where VMware was in 2.x days where VMware is working two generations ahead. I had read that post as well and found it quite entertaining. The ability to have live migration at this time may not prevent downtime for un-planned system failures, but it saves a lot of downtime for planned outages like maintenance, predictive failures, host patching etc.

Continuous Availability and SRM will bring far more to the table in the fairly near future. I personally think Microsoft is further behind than they think. They are still working to get where VMware was in 2.x days where VMware is working two generations ahead.

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