Mailbag: Hyper-V Doubts
    Doug wrote 
  yesterday about Microsoft's much-touted Hyper-V. But a few of you aren't 
  buying into the hype:
   Hyper-V is still in beta, has no live migration, has no farm concept 
    with automatic load balancing and HA, no over-committing of resources, requires 
    an installation of at least Server 2008 Core Edition, has restricted x86/x64 
    OSes, is dependent on specific CPUs, is unable to throttle or isolate the 
    root domain from VMs, and -- to top it off -- it's basically a Xen knock-off. 
    In fact, it is so similar to Xen (down to the problems), that I wonder how 
    much open source code crept into this closed-source product.
   It amazes me, the giddiness with which people are approaching this pre-1.0 
    product and clearly inferior technology. The Microsoft Machine with its adherents 
    are at work here, but it's certainly not amazing technology. Maybe one day, 
    a few years from now.
    -Anonymous
  "Hyper-V Poised for Greatness"? Rhetoric. Don't get taken by 
    the Microsoft advertising juggernaut. It will stop at nothing to make us all 
    think the Hyper-V will challenge VMware ESX or even Citrix Xen in the short-term. 
    It will be a challenger in the long-term, but is definitely not enterprise-ready 
    in its current form.
    -David 
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Posted by Doug Barney on June 17, 2008