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re: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - Quick Storage Migration

jgurtz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:04:00 GMT

Below is written from the context of a current and long-time Microsoft customer and admin.

I think it would be great if this blog would take a turn to a more technical focus instead of all the marketing I see here lately. A little bit of trumpeting about your nifty features is great, sure, but most of these comparisons with VMWare are inaccurate, reflect older versions, or simply don't mention details that will matter once implementation time comes. Storage vMotion for instance now works across disparate and non-shared storage. What about the network features? What about the richness of support for other Operating Systems?

I think it's great (who wouldn't?) that you will be offering live migration for free in the near future. To describe that as less than a panacea would be a shame. But, to describe this as customer focus is a mockery when it is obviously just a simple sniping attempt from your greatest competition. No doubt it will be quite successful in the SMB market.

I also found the running tabloid of marketing misadventures with the Hyper-V BSOD video to be rather amusing when MS marketing has engaged in similar tactics over and over again for decades. Just because you don't do it now doesn't mean it never happened and the way this blog has been lately is treading a thin line. Why ruin the good name that MS has managed to partially claw back over the last 5-10 years? Start focusing on you and not them; this banter is tiring!

Common Hyper-V guys: lets hear more tech and less FUD here! Would be great to see stories about the challenges of working across two different cpu vendors or the intricacies of Live migration over Ethernet or other things that are actually interesting.

Try to keep in mind that you're the one playing catch-up in this market. A little humility never hurt anyone. :)

re: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - Quick Storage Migration

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