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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Getting ready to migrate stuff over from Vultr to Digital Ocean. Clearly Vultr is not stable or working. Giving up on that, way too many problems.

      DO and Vultr had the same price points, do I remember that correctly?

      Correct. Effectively identical. One feels very enterprise, the other.... not so much.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        I was able to build a replacement system on DO faster than I could get access to the dead Vultr system. DO for the win!

        I foresee a lot of our stand alone workloads going to DO. Infrastructure, though, still needs Rackspace, Azure or Amazon.

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said:

          I was able to build a replacement system on DO faster than I could get access to the dead Vultr system. DO for the win!

          I foresee a lot of our stand alone workloads going to DO. Infrastructure, though, still needs Rackspace, Azure or Amazon.

          Considering this, is DO a good place for an Elastix or FreePBX phone system?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
            last edited by

            @Dashrender said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            I was able to build a replacement system on DO faster than I could get access to the dead Vultr system. DO for the win!

            I foresee a lot of our stand alone workloads going to DO. Infrastructure, though, still needs Rackspace, Azure or Amazon.

            Considering this, is DO a good place for an Elastix or FreePBX phone system?

            We suspect so but that specific scenario, while discussed, has not been tested.

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            • ?
              A Former User
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              VMware is fully replaced with Hyper-v. I don't think I'm going to miss it.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                @thecreativeone91 said:

                VMware is fully replaced with Hyper-v. I don't think I'm going to miss it.

                We are doing that in a lot of places. There was a time where it made sense. But increasingly, HyperV and XenServer are the logical choices.

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                • ?
                  A Former User
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                  http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/950168-goodbye-intranet-is-google-s-beyondcorp-initiative-the-future-of-it-security?page=1#entry-4617487

                  Interesting cloud/hosted stuff.

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                  • coliverC
                    coliver @A Former User
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                    @thecreativeone91 said:

                    VMware is fully replaced with Hyper-v. I don't think I'm going to miss it.

                    I've managed a ESXi infrastructure before, and currently manage a Hyper-V infrastructure, both were/are in the SMB range, 1-2 hosts 15-20 servers... but overall I haven't really found anything from ESXi that is lacking on Hyper-V. Still prefer XenServer when I get a chance though.

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                    • ?
                      A Former User @coliver
                      last edited by A Former User

                      @coliver VMware vmotion works a little better if you do it a lot. I think most places I've had about 10 vmhosts. That's about it. I like hyper-v better for the most part.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
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                        What is driving the switch from VMWare to Hyper-V?

                        Are you also buying the MS management stuff for Hyper-V or just using it stand alone (aka completely free?)

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @coliver
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                          @coliver said:

                          @thecreativeone91 said:

                          VMware is fully replaced with Hyper-v. I don't think I'm going to miss it.

                          I've managed a ESXi infrastructure before, and currently manage a Hyper-V infrastructure, both were/are in the SMB range, 1-2 hosts 15-20 servers... but overall I haven't really found anything from ESXi that is lacking on Hyper-V. Still prefer XenServer when I get a chance though.

                          That's mostly what I am finding now. NTG is in the process of going away from VMware and going to only HyperV and XenServer.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                            @thecreativeone91 said:

                            @coliver VMware vmotion works a little better if you do it a lot. I think most places I've had about 10 vmhosts. That's about it. I like hyper-v better for the most part.

                            I've had VMware vMotion bring down a giant bank because it was unstable. Not a big fan.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @Dashrender said:

                              What is driving the switch from VMWare to Hyper-V?

                              Cost. HyperV gives you full HA, shared storage (via StarWind) and backup API all completely for free. That's huge. What's the upside to VMware with the latest rounds of HyperV and XS?

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                @Dashrender said:

                                Are you also buying the MS management stuff for Hyper-V or just using it stand alone (aka completely free?)

                                Or using free third party tools?

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                                • ?
                                  A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @Dashrender said:

                                  Are you also buying the MS management stuff for Hyper-V or just using it stand alone (aka completely free?)

                                  Or using free third party tools?

                                  You can manage with RSAT remotely if domain joined.. But, if you have any windows server license you can install server with a GUI as well and install only the hyper-v role and you still get all your VOSE instances as long as no other roles are on the host. So far standard that's 2 VMs. And for datacenter unlimited. If you install other roles on the host (which isn't really the host its a virtualized system) you lose one VOSE right on standard.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                                    @thecreativeone91 said:

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @Dashrender said:

                                    Are you also buying the MS management stuff for Hyper-V or just using it stand alone (aka completely free?)

                                    Or using free third party tools?

                                    You can manage with RSAT remotely if domain joined.. But, if you have any windows server license you can install server with a GUI as well and install only the hyper-v role and you still get all your VOSE instances as long as no other roles are on the host. So far standard that's 2 VMs. And for datacenter unlimited. If you install other roles on the host (which isn't really the host its a virtualized system) you lose one VOSE right on standard.

                                    Yup, lots of options.

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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender @A Former User
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                                      @thecreativeone91 said:

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      @Dashrender said:

                                      Are you also buying the MS management stuff for Hyper-V or just using it stand alone (aka completely free?)

                                      Or using free third party tools?

                                      You can manage with RSAT remotely if domain joined.. But, if you have any windows server license you can install server with a GUI as well and install only the hyper-v role and you still get all your VOSE instances as long as no other roles are on the host. So far standard that's 2 VMs. And for datacenter unlimited. If you install other roles on the host (which isn't really the host its a virtualized system) you lose one VOSE right on standard.

                                      Thanks, I recall this from previous threads. I was wondering more if the MS VM tools were really needed? or if things like RSAT and RDS were what most SMBs were using?

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                        last edited by

                                        @Dashrender said:

                                        @thecreativeone91 said:

                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        @Dashrender said:

                                        Are you also buying the MS management stuff for Hyper-V or just using it stand alone (aka completely free?)

                                        Or using free third party tools?

                                        You can manage with RSAT remotely if domain joined.. But, if you have any windows server license you can install server with a GUI as well and install only the hyper-v role and you still get all your VOSE instances as long as no other roles are on the host. So far standard that's 2 VMs. And for datacenter unlimited. If you install other roles on the host (which isn't really the host its a virtualized system) you lose one VOSE right on standard.

                                        Thanks, I recall this from previous threads. I was wondering more if the MS VM tools were really needed? or if things like RSAT and RDS were what most SMBs were using?

                                        sadly a lot of SMB using RDS. Makes me cringe.

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                                        • ?
                                          A Former User
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                                          You can use powershell for it too. Good luck remembering the commands though. I think they should've outsource some to Cisco or something to make commands people can remember.

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                                          • coliverC
                                            coliver @Dashrender
                                            last edited by

                                            @Dashrender said:

                                            What is driving the switch from VMWare to Hyper-V?

                                            Are you also buying the MS management stuff for Hyper-V or just using it stand alone (aka completely free?)

                                            Price/feature. ESXi doesn't offer much on top of Hyper-V even when you look at Essentials.

                                            I've tried SCVMM, I didn't have much a use for it outside of the reporting/monitoring functionality. Most of which can be found in other free products now.

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