Virtualization Is Life!
Podcast GTwGT
general

Hyper-V is better tech than ESXi - What are Microsoft Smoking??

“We are 4x cheaper with better technology versus VMware.”

I’ve been fairly open in my opinion against the latest round of Microsoft FUD coming out of their Worldwide Partner Conference this week but I felt strongly enough by the utter crap coming out of their mouths to respond in a post.

Turner says MSFT Hyper-V now 4x cheaper than VMware. Offers to “baptize” VMware-using partners onstage at #WPC14 , “before it’s too late” — Kevin McLaughlin (@nocompunction) July 14, 2014

It’s not so much about the claim to be 4x cheaper than the VMware Cloud Suite…but more the outright incorrect claims that their technology is somehow superior to that of VMware’s. I’ve found myself in the position to have been exposed to both Hyper-V and ESXi (not counting the Management and Orchestration suites) and in fact I cut my teeth in the Virtualization world on Hyper-V…so unlike others out there who see things only through the rose colored glasses Microsoft seem to sew onto peoples faces… I go by a real world operational perspective that’s not blinkered. So here it is…Microsoft Hyper-V is not the equal or superior to VMware’s ESXi! And rather than go through feature by feature..In the interest of keeping this post short and to the point, I would challange anybody to sit someone who has had zero exposure to the Virtualization market to evaluate both Hyper-V and ESXi side by side…without bias or without prejudice there is no doubt in anyones mind that no logical person would choose Hyper-V as the better hypervisor platform over ESXi. To reinforce that…ESXi will come out ontop. It’s that simple! Of course I now fall firmly with the side of VMware and some will argue that my own view is blurred but I can tell you that my current opinions are based on fact and experience…not desperate attempts to discredit otherwise far far superior technology…but then again…Microsoft have made a habit of this so it doesn’t surprise me. Kevin Turner you are a disgrace! Read more: http://www.crn.com.au/News/389695,vmware-google-apple-catch-a-spray-in-turners-keynote.aspx?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=CRN+All+Articles+feed#ixzz37Vca3hea

9 Commentsarchived

  1. Stephen
    You are 100% correct, when you take someone that has no virtualisation experience I think that VMware is better than Hyper-V, not by a lot though.
  2. Doug Youd
    You've got it all wrong.... clearly KVM + OpenStack is far superior on all counts.... especially on maturity in the enterprise #troll
  3. oli
    I don't agree Stephen. Server Virtualisation is 2005 but Storage and Network and Network Functions Virtualisation are still maturing and really coming to the forefront. In terms of a Hybrid Cloud, server virtualisation as much as it may be old news, it is still a fundamental part and basis of a cloud platform.
  4. Frank Anderson
    Great response Oli..From the looks Stephen has missed the point of the post and taken a typically ignorant Microsoft only view of the IT world.
  5. Mike
    Lets see if I can sum up the VMware fanboi arguments here and respond:
    1. Ken Cline
      Mike,
  6. Jim
    Narrow minded to think that MS are the only company that matters. The sands are shifting below the feet of them and they can't milk their desktop and enterprise clients forever, or continue to be late to the party. They do realize they are 2nd place when it comes to the servers that run the web and this will continue as the shift to large web based services expand at a rapid rate. It makes sense for those companies developing these services to be platform agnostic or develop on their native platform as said above which in many many cases are NOT MS.
  7. Roger Moore
    Well Gartner sum it up well.
  8. David
    I can only relate my own operational experience. I work for a company that is, potentially (I have no means to verify, but MS drops hints every once in a while), the largest deployment of Hyper-V clusters in the world. Let me just say that Hyper-V as a technology is nowhere near VMware as a serious competitor. Issues with Hyper-V are consistent, and SCVMM only exasperates the situation. I feel that I can say, definitively, that it cannot be considered as a real choice for enterprise virtualization (that is, unless you are willing to accept all of the caveats of its operation, and nearly constant outages).
  9. Duke Walters
    I agree with this last post about Hyper-V and scalability issues. But let's face it. At this scale even VMware has problems. I work for a company with 156 ESXi hosts in a live environment. There are many issues with scalability and reliability. We resorted to writing our own tools. To be fair, at this scale you are going to have problems with any hypervisor.