One of the most controversial blog articles I wrote over the last couple of months definitely was the “Hyper-V crashes youtube movie“ post. The amount of response I had on this post and the follow-up “Will you fight or will you run” was amazing. Of course people where divided in two “camps”, either you liked [...]
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Will you fight or will you run?
May 11th, 2009
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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 [...]
Great Hyper-V youtube movie…
May 1st, 2009
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Most people heard about this by now, Technet and MSDN are running on Hyper-V. As Microsoft states, an enterprise ready solution. Both Technet and MSDN crashed this week, or should we say Hyper-V just doesn’t cut it. Check this Youtube movie that clearly shows what happens when VMs are stressed:
A professional associate of mine shared [...]
Train Signal virt CBTs still 25% reduction
February 16th, 2009
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Train Signal, the post included a reduction coupon, YELLOWBRICKS. This coupon gives you 25% reduction on the Train Signal virtualization CBTs. Train Signal was so kind to also provide me with an additional coupon that gives you free shipping:
All you need to do is head over to [...]
Train Signal
January 27th, 2009
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Almost a year ago I wrote an article on a CBT by Train Signal. I really enjoyed watching the CBT and that says a lot coming from someone that never used to be a CBT fan. In the end the ease of learning when and wherever you want is what convinced me. Another reason to [...]
Gabes Virtual World coverage on Hyper-v vs ESX
December 2nd, 2008
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Gabe from “Gabes Virtual World” is on a roll lately. He wrote three great articles which describe why he wouldn’t want to use Hyper-V in his Datacenter at this moment. I linked to his blog articles and grabbed a quote from each article that sets the tone in my opinion:
Part 1 Hardware:
In fact, I think [...]
Hyper-V vs ESX performance
November 25th, 2008
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There has been a lot of talk on Hyper-V vs ESX performance. I can imagine that no one believes performance statements coming from either VMware or Microsoft. Kenon Owens from VMware posted a blog article on this topic. Yes Kenon is from VMware but the performance tests has been done by an independent company.
The complete [...]
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