Hyper-V or VMware: The choice has finally arrived!
By Tarry Singh at 10 July, 2009, 10:47 am
I have been talking to Ratmir and also to Konstantin (founder at 5nine) and think that Konstantin’s findings are really really interesting. With their software, which is a combo-deal for doing it all automatically with the 5nine toolkit:
- Do the assessment first
- Make a comparison (which vendor would fit best, Microsoft or VMware)
- Make an design plan
- Initiate the project plan
- Do the migration
All done with one single toolkit. You know what this means for all the VMware VARs, Consultants etc. All the Microsoft shops, well the shops willing to get virutalized are Microsoft shops, will be able to do it all themselves. All those admins who have had to work on all those Linux commands which the cool consultants showed them a bit and told them: “Well, you’ll have to learn some Linux now, won’t you?” [I am guilty to that as well], will be showing their middle finger to everyone else and take back the control of their data centers.
This might sound a bit too rosy but it does say one thing:
- Now there is a real choice to choose from either VMware or Hyper-V/Microsoft
- You can do it all yourself and don’t have to spend all those extra dollars/euros on external consultants
- No B.S about loading your findings to some remote database, it’s all in your hands
- Migrate yourself and use the consultants on tap and not top!
Choice has arrived. funny thing is it is simple as hell. We suddenly have many new/existing (but not ready for virtualization) asking for the choice and I am happy to talk about all that is available.
5nine P2V Planner offers the following features:
– Automated P2V Hyper-V and P2V VMware Migration Planning — Performs sophisticated analysis of the current data center and provides multiple Hyper-V and VMware migration plans depending on particular customer requirements. Optimized placement of virtualized workloads is based on business requirements, technology (memory, storage and CPU utilization, security), and TCO and ROI.
– Side-by-Side comparison of Hyper-V and VMware Migration plans — Enables creation and side-by-side comparison of VMware and Hyper-V virtualization migration plans. It takes into consideration multiple factors including software licensing costs, memory and CPU utilization, clustering and average consolidation ratios for both virtualization technologies.
– Agentless Data Collection — Automatically discovers and collects hardware inventory, utilization data and application performance metrics in a non-intrusive manner without installing agents. It also allows importing this information from an Excel or XML file.
– Simple-to-Use — The product was designed to be used for projects of all sizes — from small virtualization pilots or SMB projects to large enterprise projects with hundreds of servers, hosts and virtual machines (VMs).
– Integrated TCO and ROI Reporting — 5nine P2V Planner creates a variety of technology assessment, workload, and TCO and ROI reports for each migration plan, for easy comparison of Hyper-V and VMware migration plans and decision making.
– Ongoing Value — Whether your P2V migration project is complete or ongoing, the Planner continues to provide value by optimizing the workloads and resource utilization in a virtualized data center.
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Would you have a project schedule for a new istallation of hyper-v that includes the planning, design, building and implementation tasks?
Thank you,
Dora