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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.
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
517-355-9200
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