Optimize the cost of Information Technology

On 2010-06-22, in Internet, by robert

The cost of acquisistion of hardware is not the only cost.

Power
Cooling
Maintenance

are a major cost in owning and operating server hardware.

Those costs are a huge factor in driving the server virtualization market. Those same costs apparently are not being considered in the desktop virtualization market by the software vendors or the analysts. I think that if you want a real comparison of the mdel, you have to talk about

scalability
power
cooling costs
admin costs

of all thos additional servers.

IDC also says that you spend $8 in maintenance for every $1 in infrastruture. (source)

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/server_consolidation.pdf

http://virtualization.com/events-conferences-expo-fairs/2008/04/09/idc-virtualization-forum-west-john-humphreys/

Microsoft Hyper-V

No memory overcommit (4gb allocated to a VM takes 4gb from the pool) BIG issue for me and HA.
No pagefile consolodation.
2008 Ent or Data needed for some slightly advanced features.
It requires SCVMM for advanced management features.
It requires 2008R2 and SCVMM for CFS and more than 1 VM per lun.
It requires 2008R2 and SCVMM for live migration.
It requires SCVMM and SCOM for DRS (like feature).
It requires IE7 and other totally unrelated updates.
Nic teaming is not native, 3rd party drivers and setup required (*)
Only suse 10 linux is supported (and windows back to 2000)
No shared ISO storage, it makes a copy for each mounted iso.
No USB passthroughs.
(*) For instance: ProLiant Network Teaming Software must be removed (uninstalled) prior to installing and enabling Hyper-V. There is no known method of uninstalling HP ProLiant Teaming software on machines running Windows Server 2008 Server Core. (source)