Bye Bye vmWare

[Tandum]

Windows 2012 R2's Hyper-V is the nail in the vmWare Coffin. If you have shares, flog em off now.

[mithrandir]

Does Hyper-V support all the same guests as vmWare?
It might suit small shops to switch but the big boys won't be moving any time soon.

[Tandum]

CentOs runs under it but why would you ....

This host replicates to other machines locally or off site.

And compared to vmWare, it's cheap.

[mithrandir]

At the cost of one more SmallLimp lockin.
vmWare replicates locally or off-site, does on-the-fly migration, ...
RHEL is the non-Windoze guest of most interest to the platform consolidators.
IBM was silly not to buy vmWare when they had the chance. Their outsourcing divisions are huge users.

[Camelopardalis]

Corporate IT departments usually don't care so much about money, which is why they have lined Microsoft's pockets all these years.

The other thing they generally don't care for is change....

[Eden]

I've been a VMWare customer since 1999, primarily to run Linux and other Unix variants alongside Windows. Hyper-V 2012 R2 is a 3 year old product which is fine for a Windows-only shop but has no real advantages over VMWare. For customers who need virtualisation at the desktop level and/or need to run non-Microsoft operating systems, VMWare will always be the preferred choice especially since alternatives in that area (VirtualBox for example) don't even come close to the performance that VMWare offers.

[Eden]

In corporate IT, change means not only cost but also loss of productivity. The reluctance to adopt change is the very reason why companies like Microsoft go to extreme lengths to preserve backwards compatibility, even if it means compromising on features, stability or ease of use.

[tlgerdes]

Window 2012 has been around for a few years, R2 the same. VMware continues to make it's revenue targets quarter on quarter, year on year. Every company who has said they are going to squash VMware for the last 6 years is still trying to, Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco to name a few. We are still here and still growing at rates faster than the others.