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Comment by Attila Seress on October 5, 2012 at 11:12am

Curtis,

Sure thing, glad to help if you like. I'm here in the Manoa Innovation Center behind UH. Give me a call and we can set up a time, 861-9595

Comment by Curtis J. Kropar on October 5, 2012 at 2:20am

Aloha !

So.. is anyone interested in spending some time teaching an old geek some new bits ? I have been reading a little on VM and i have a few instances where i think it could be useful for us. Thing is, with my schedule there is no way i have time to just sit and read up on this and expiriment and learn it on my own non existant "spare time". Looking for someone to volunteer a few hours with us (www.HawaiianHope.org) and help me understand this better, possibly help me convert over a box or 2

any takers ?

Comment by Attila Seress on March 8, 2012 at 12:50am

Well, here are the questions I ask myself:

What would I feel comfortable selling and deploying in a business other than my own that would depend on it to work all day every day?

Will I be able to reach someone when things don't go as planned and don't have all the answers?

What are the benefits of using a cost vs. open source solution? Usually you get what you pay for.

So far, I've felt that Vmware, Citrix and Microsoft provide the best answers to these questions. However in a lab environment or just playing around at home, I'm sure Xen, KVM, Virtualbox, etc. do just fine!

Comment by Brian Chee on March 7, 2012 at 2:14pm

Welp, CentOS 6 works fine, seems there are different integration drivers for RHEL/CentOS 5 versus 6. SLES is fully supported. Interestingly enough, if you LInux is CLI only, the integration drivers for shutdown, etc work pretty well even in Debian/Ubuntu...but yes, not as clean as VMWare...but oh so much cheaper and Microsoft is committed to making it better. 

So I'm not saying replace VMWare with Hyper-V, just consider it, especially if you're primarily Windoze. 

Comment by Attila Seress on March 6, 2012 at 10:13pm

To be honest I'm not too fond of hyper-v since it doesn't truly support linux. I think MS recognizes that inviting linux users to play might lead to system instability. To be honest, I've been really happy with Vmware. Their licensing fees are reasonable and you can run hybrid environments (MS/NIX) on the same stand alone hardware without much effort!

Comment by Brian Chee on March 6, 2012 at 12:19pm

On licensing for Windows Server, you really want to consider the Data Center edition since that allows you to shoe horn as many server instances onto a single physical server as will fit. This license works for both Hyper-V and VMWare. Windows Server 8 will follow and make setting up RemoteFX connections dramatically easier.

Comment by Rick Payton on August 30, 2011 at 11:33am

Anybody from TechHui @ VMworld 2011 right now?

Comment by Attila Seress on April 13, 2010 at 3:59pm

Pretty excited about new private cloud platform with ubuntu private cloud (http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud). Has anyone tried it out?

Comment by Cameron Peppers on February 18, 2010 at 3:23pm

Hello All,
This is for the Virtualization companies out there. I am currently on the market for roles as Virtualization Architect/ Sr. Engineer here in Honolulu. Please email me for details rcpeppers@gmail.com

or on linkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronpeppers

Comment by Joel M. Leo on January 23, 2010 at 12:46pm

@ Mark Gilbert's comment regarding MS licensing and hyper-v: Windows Server 2008 licensing allows 1 instance of the Standard os running in hyper-v on a host machine. That host machine, as long as its doing nothing other than running hyper-v and related services (failover clustering for instance) can be running under the same license. MS calls this the 1+1 license for Standard.

Under Enterprise, MS allows for up to 4 instances in hyper-v plus the os running the hyper-v services. This they term the 1+4 license.

You can have a bunch of vms running in hyper-v simultaneously, as long as you have the appropriate number of licenses. For example, you could have 5 instances of 2008 Standard running in hyper-v with 5 copies of the Standard license: 5 for each of the virtual instances - the license for the physical machine is not necessary as long as its doing nothing other than providing virtualization related services.

The 90 days you refer to is only for moving an existing license from one machine to another. If the hardware permanently dies then licenses can be moved sooner than that.

Hope this helps clarify some of the licensing issues =)

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