John Spiers from Lefthand has a blog called the Virtual View. I love blogs like this. You get the true unfiltered opinion from these guys. There are a few blogs like this where the owners truly let it all out for the world to see and it’s really needed. Sometimes sales depts can start throwing numbers and specs and it can get kind of blurry. To have someone like John just putting the truth out there it really helps to see who is behind the scenes and what they are about.
John’s blog of course focuses on their SAN/iQ offering but as more posts have appeared he’s started to post about other items that relate to it. Like how awesome (it really is!) iSCSI is compared to it’s older but aging competitor Fiber Channel. He brings up a lot of good points that companies need to look at as they move forward or begin looking at the differences between the two. Even with FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) FC still has a long way to go.
Note: We still haven’t bought our SAN solution yet and I wasn’t paid for this post. 
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vMotion is really one of the coolest and most productive features of a virtualization. The ability to move a server while turned on and in production to another host is just a mind boggling feature in the IT world. I mean really, how many of you have wished that you could take down a server mid day to add ram or replace a dead power supply.
Richard Garsthagen from www.run-virtual.com whipped up a small program called VMjuggler to show off this feature to attendees at Microsoft’s TechEd forum in Barcelona. He showed it off by having his software move around a Windows 2003 64 bit server running SQL 2005 and a program called DBhammer slam it with requests. He did this for all 5 days of the event, moving the server around every 10 seconds. Imagine showing this off to your boss or to someone who his hesitant about trusting an ESX solution for even a SQL platform. That should shut anyone up who has any doubts.
So once he releases this i’ll be loading it at the day job to prove those nay sayers wrong
Thanks again Richard!
At their own TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain Microsoft finally gave a name to it’s upcoming Windows Server virtualization technology. They did also announce packaging plans for it.
Although it’s still set to ship 180 days after Windows Server 2008 ships, it will be included in the mainstream editions of the server once it’s released. All together there will be eight editions of Server 2008, with three of them including Hyper-V by default - Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions will be the chosen ones.
Microsoft will also release the same three editions that do not come with Hyper-V. There will also be two more editions that do not include it, Windows Web Server and Windows Server for Itanium-based Systems.
The moniker used for the plain version of Server 2008 that do not include Hyper-V is “without Hyper-V” as in Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V”.
As with most Microsoft releases, Hyper-V has had it’s features trimmed since it’s initial announcement. Some of these that have been cut are Live Migration, the ability to support more then 16 cores or four quad core processors.
And to add even more confusion to the mix we have to look at the pricing. Windows Server 2008 Standard with Hyper-V is priced at $999 with five CAL’s. While the Enterprise edition with Hyper-V will cost $3,999 with 25 CAL’s. Datacenter has been set to $2,999 per processor.
Read the original InternetNews article here.