As regular readers know I am a hardcore-punk fan, now on reading these posts(1, 2) by Microsoft a famous line from a legendary Dutch Hardcore band came to mind; “Will you fight or will you run?”
I think Microsoft just expects their competitors to run or just join the “dark side”. Well it appears that this is not the route VMware has chosen. Instead of not responding to outrageous claims by Microsoft, VMware have chosen to respond and further to responding, striking back as well. Now in this post MS writes as if VMware started the FUD War: Hyper-V Winning Daily/VMware FUD Reaching New Heights.
Now personally I am not a competitive guy… I am not even a marketing guy… I do not normally post competitive stuff, but after all the claims from MS(Anybody remember their little VMworld, Las Vegas stunt? Or there TCO/ROI posts, Please! There is more to TCO than Licensing). I thought it would be nice to help a bit by spreading the word. I guess my post actually worked after judging by the comments and replies in the blogosphere.
Unfortunately for VMware, Microsoft’s Jeff Woolsey, the Sherlock Holmes he is, has discovered that it was Scott Drummond that published the post offending Hyper-V BSOD post. Now I wonder what actually revealed that it was masterpiece of journalistic investigation, could it be the YouTube nickname “drummonds1974″ or maybe the blog article that Scott posted on the 6th of May. (No Jeff, I don’t think it’s a response to your article, check the dates of both Scott’s and your article and do the math! (Saying that please do not use your TCO/ROI calculator to do the math cause it seems to be a bit off 
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As a side note, some people claim I am not “objective”, hell of course I am not. I am a VMware employee. I earn my money by delivering VMware projects, of course I am not objective. That said Do you think I care? That is not what Yellow-Bricks.com is about. I am not a so called “objective” and/or “journalistic” e-magazine some other blogs and or e-magazines claim to be. (Note I used the word “claim” because I personally do not believe any magazine that is heavily sponsored can be or will be “objective”.) Yellow-bricks is a blog… My personal blog, nothing more and nothing less, and in general it deals about VMware technical issues / tips / tricks.
Now I would like to ask Microsoft, or should I say Jeff Woolsey, to actually watch these videos (and read both responses or any of the comments on these videos) and before talking about credibility, just ask yourself if you should be the one judging other people on credibility:
- Top 10 VMWare myths video
- Microsoft Virtualization – Virtualization without Taxation
- response: When myth busting goes wrong and becomes a myth to bust it self
- response: Microsoft Myths and Realities…
Or what about these:
- Extra layer extra cost…
I do agree it’s an entertaining topic, extra layer… just wonder do your VMs run directly on Hardware? - Hyper-V Quick migration vs VMware Live Migrations
Just wondering, if nobody uses it anyway… why are you hyping Hyper-V R2 with live migration? (By the way, it’s still not the same as VMware VMotion.)
Further, while we are on the topic of credibility, moderating blog comments that don’t meet your “requirements” or offer criticsm for your position is not going to increase your credibility in any way. I will not and do not moderate comments, excepting for spam of course, so if you would like to discuss anything related to this topic go ahead… even Microsoft guys are welcome to join in on the fun.
Jump up and say “YEAH!”
You go BOI!
I wonder if anyone will discover that I, too, am a VMware employee?
Well said! I’m tired of the FUD they continually resort to.
Some people sell the steak and some sell the sizzle. MS has made a very good living selling the sizzle (well until Vista anyway) and anyone who expects a different public approach to their detractors and critics should probably read this article especially all the way down to the note at the bottom under the picture.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/04/24/merck-issued-hit-list-of-doctors-opposed-to-their-product/
@ Eric Gray you left a response on my blog w/o identifying yourself as a VMware employee. That in and of itself is new blog material by today’s standards.
I’ll fight VMware to treat their existing ELA customers right
Jason – doh! Caught.
I think the point is that using a video that has absolutely zero context or information about how the tests were run as proof that Hyper-V has problems is drawing an extremely long bow. Knowing what I know about the Hyper-V product group if this was a common problem there would be a fix out there. Clearly there is something wrong with that test system, but without any supporting information there is no way to draw the conclusion that it is Hyper-V responsible. And doing so is irresponsible. (and yes, that cuts both ways)
Cheers
Stu
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, but this is my personal opinion, not that of my employer.
Duncan, thanks a lot for this post. I finally found an official document for Quick Migration / VMotion.
One of the funniest things is tha Microsoft guys turned their opinions 180 degrees on Live Migration feature as soon as technical team finally made Live Migration in early beta. Or maybe they turned opinions as soon as High Management said so. Looks like “1984″.
Let’s just call it what it is: Every virtualization vendor is playing catch up to VMware in terms of functionality. Xen is finally getting DRS-like functionality in the 5.5 beta, and Hyper-V just got Linux mouse support…. yay?
There’s one place where all the other vendors will have difficulty catching up, and that’s the VMware tried and true enterprise installed base. Citrix XenApp has a pretty sizable base now as well.
It will be interesting to watch all the companies evolve and steal and improve each other’s ideas. Exciting, competitive times! Works out best for us, the customers!
Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do and the marketing department has to make up for lack of features in additional hype around hyper-V.
As soon as R2 is out we will test it for smaller deployments to see if it is a cost-effective and performance effective solution. I went through a couple of hyper-V workshops and wasn’t too impressed yet.