What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?

IRJ

I am just curious to ball park percentages of Microsoft Servers in comparison to Linux, Unix, AIX, etc.

IRJ

The last two places I worked were unfortunately about 90% MS.

Alex Sage

@IRJ said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

The last two places I worked were unfortunately about 90% MS.

That would be about right for us too.

RojoLoco

100% MS here... our products are built with .NET / IIS / Visual Studio with no plans of changing anytime soon. C-levels have looked into porting over to Linux, but besides being cost prohibitive, there is literally zero demand from our existing or potential customers.

NerdyDad

Same here. About 90-95% MS.

Dashrender

I'm down to three physical servers
7/10 are windows.

yep, mostly Windows.

Minion Queen

Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% Windows

In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

NerdyDad

@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

VM1 - Windows 2012 R2 AD/file/print

Just 1 AD server?

Dashrender

@NerdyDad said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

VM1 - Windows 2012 R2 AD/file/print

Just 1 AD server?

yep.. just one.

Licensing wise, it doesn't make sense to buy Windows for the other VM host to have a Windows AD box on it. Besides, if the one box goes down, the bulk of why I need AD goes down with it - the files.

DNS is running on another VM, so internet will stay working.

I could probably move a single license to the other host and setup a DC, but storage is at a premium on that server...... so.....

Kelly

Probably 5-10% are Windows.

Dashrender

@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% Windows

In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers

NerdyDad

@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% Windows

In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers

So clients 1 & 4 have 100 servers?

art_of_shred

@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% Windows

In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers

Poor math skills...
She is counting VM's and not physical boxes alone, and her percentages are not accurate. On average, most of those clients have 1 or 2 Linux VM's and every other thing (server or workstation) in their environment is Windows. It's a very low percentage of Linux anything that we ever deal with.

scottalanmiller

@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

SAM has nothing against MS, just pro-business and if the Windows tax isn't justified, we don't use it. It's not at all related to being anti-Microsoft.

scottalanmiller

We are down to one legacy Windows app server. All Linux beyond that. That one is slated to be moved, but hasn't been a priority in quite some time. It is a .NET app that has to be ported to .NET on Linux.

momurda

50% MS here, almost exactly. Rest are various linux servers.

scottalanmiller

@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% Windows

In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

Funny, you assign me to customers that are 50% Windows. Why aren't those in the list? And it's not their PBXs on something other than Windows. I think you are skipping loads of the workloads just because they don't generate many outages.

brianlittlejohn

Just decommissioned 3 exchange servers today... 7 out of 11 are windows servers currently, but the number of linux servers is growing here.

Dashrender

One thing a question like this doesn't really account for - is OS sprawl. i.e. one install per function. Of course there are huge advantages to this (i.e. you need to update/reboot the Unifi server, nothing else is affected), it quickly grows the number on 'nix boxes compared to Windows boxes because of the a fore mentioned Windows Tax.

scottalanmiller

@brianlittlejohn said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

Just decommissioned 3 exchange servers today... 7 out of 11 are windows servers currently, but the number of linux servers is growing here.

I deal with a lot of FreeBSD servers, too, it seems.