Sometimes you wished you hadn’t invested all of your 50.000 dollars on an employee who will be doing “migrations” for you. So what am I talking about? Well imagine yourself in a 24×7 environment, or anyother environment for that matter and you just received an email about this patch. Yeah this patch NEEDS to be applied a.s.a.p. cause it’s a [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote about the Quick Migration script that Mike D wrote with Powershell. Like I said, it should be possible to integrate the script with VC. Well this has been done by Dennis of Icomasoft. Icomasoft recently released the Powershell Plugin for VirtualCenter. And with this plugin you can easily integrate your scripts into VirtualCenter [...]

So can someone please explain to me why Microsoft is working on live migration and just did a demo(1, 2) of this new feature? Some of you might think, what the heck are you talking about? Well let me quote a couple of lines out of a MS Virtualization blog a couple of months ago: We’ve drilled into these scenarios [...]

So Microsoft just announced that the next version of Hyper-V, which will be out with Windows 2008 R2, will contain live migration! There are couple of other note worthy news items: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new hypervisor-based server virtualization product (like ESXi), will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web Microsoft will [...]

Can anyone help me out? At several blogs I’ve read that Hyper-V is available with clustering and quick migration for only a fraction of the costs compared to VMware. I was just browsing the internet and stumbled upon the following: Windows 2008 Enterprise: $3,999 with 25 CALs The System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Edition’s price is $1,290. Comprehensive solution [...]

Scott’s post pointed me out to the follow up of the VMotion vs Quick Migration post a week ago. I’ve already blogged about the previous articles so here my thoughts on the new one. I guess the most important part of Jeff’s post is this: We’ve drilled into these scenarios further and asked customers, who have currently have Live Migration [...]

Recently there was an article published on the Microsoft Virtualization Blog which compared Hyper-V’s High Availability/Quick Migration capabilities to VMware’s VMotion. (VMblog pointed me towards the article) In the second article the writer responds on a large amount of reactions he had regarding VMotion being superior: After my last blog I received almost two dozen email telling me that VMotion [...]