News: Pricing Comparisons, Red Hat, and More

Hello everyone!

It’s been a little bit of time since I last posted but I promise to post more regularly, as soon as I get back from my vacation in Hawaii :). 

This week, I wanted to cover some new news and some items I tweeted about but didn’t blog.

• I wrote a new post, Virtualization Reality: Why Microsoft® Virtualization Solutions Deliver Value When Compared to VMware® on my other blog, from the Because It’s Everybody’s Business site.  It covers how the Microsoft cost comparisons are done and a view on the VMware cost calculations.
• We have just announced that Microsoft and Red Hat have completed certification on each others products.  If you want to run Red Hat on Hyper-V or MS applications on Red Hat KVM, you want to read this post.
• There is now official documentation for migrating a cluster from Hyper-V to Hyper-V R2.  Hans Vredevoot wrote up a great list of links for migrating Hyper-V clusters.
• Windows Virtual PC and the associated Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 has been Released to Manufacturing (RTMed).   Ben Armstrong announced this on his blog.
• I still see a lot of misrepresentations about Hyper-V and whether it’s a bare metal hypervisor.  There is a great post from Netapp on what the misconceptions are and why Hyper-V is really a bare metal hypervisor.

Thanks everyone.  Look out for more posts upcoming and you can always follow me on Twitter (@edwinyuen).