Microsoft has responded to a recent challenge from Sun to answer some serious questions about Hyper-V â" in particular, how Hyper-V can compete with Xen-based alternatives, and whether a Windows-only virtualization technology can hack it in today's increasingly heterogeneous datacenters.
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I don't think heterogeneous-ity comes into it really...
At my current work place we wouldn't use anything other then a MS products as we're a Gold Partners; So we'll be using HyperV without doubt.
My last work place was a Debian shop so we were using Xen...
I really think it's as simple as that, 'Microsoft shops' will use HyperV, where as 'Linux shops' will use Xen... Much like the OSes the both have their advantages and there will be lots of HyperV bashing as it's from Microsoft. Xen was amazing to use both had a very steep learning curve :\
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OK, but what about heterogeneous shops that use both Windows and Linux, and maybe even BSD and Solaris? These are the shops being addressed in the question, not shops that are commited to a single platform.
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It's likely that shops with both windows and linux will use vmware if they need it's features, or xen because it's free. I don't really see a place for Hyper-V anywhere that's not totally locked in to microsoft... It's not tried and tested like the other products, it has a large footprint and will cost more than xen.
Not even sure if it offers much above vmware's free products either.
The only places that will use it, are those who are locked to 100% microsoft and cant/wont touch anything else.
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That MS guy in the interview says they only support SLES. One single distro.
As far as I remember, all Linux distros use more or less the same kernel. Why would Microsoft have to enter talks, with e.g. Red Hat as claimed in the article, to "get it supported"?
That's what's wrong with them. They don't even try.