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Licensing is not that bad of an issue for Higher Ed, but the question is
the features and how they have improved networking, clustering and
support improvement for the other non windows operating systems.  

 

Virtual Machine based portals have been free for us for a number of
years, but if MS is talking enterprise class VM we would have to examine
what licensing would cover or be for.  

 

In the end if you don't have a cal or valid product key for your current
Microsoft based VMs and Microsoft Software on them you (not you
specifically; people in general) really are not going to see the
difference.   if all you utilize is Linux pre-compiled builds nothing
changes.

 

 

 

 

From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Laurence Bates
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

 

My concern about Microsoft's Virtual Server offering is that Microsoft
is currently becoming rather heavy handed in trying to get users to
subscribe to their annual license model.  I would hate to be locked into
one of their Virtual Server systems and find that it became a leverage
to move me towards an annual license fee.  I am currently testing
VMWare's offerings and like the fact that I can integrate Linux into the
mix with relative ease, including pre-built linux VM's.

 

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From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:13 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

 

Nag-

 

I watched about an hour long recorded webcast by Microsoft on the up and
coming SCVMM part of the System Center family and my first impressions
are... WOW!  It is currently RTM and should be out soon...and paired
with the updates coming when Windows Server 2008 is released...and then
again 120 days after that with the full update to Virtual Server it
seems very nice.  We are beginning to think about starting to work
towards a production class Virtual environment...currently we use VS2005
for testing but it's not redundant enough for production with only one
server.

 

I wonder if any of you other MS guys/gals out there have heard about
this (if not then you should check it out) and or messed with it at all
and am interested to hear some of your impressions.

 

/Ehren

 

Ehren J. Benson, MCSE

Windows Systems Administrator

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michigan State University

1209 A Biomed Phys Sci

 

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