One of the interesting things coming up in VMware Infrastructure 4 or vSphere as it is now known is the new licensing options aimed at securing a bigger slice of the lucrative SME marketplace.
Many SME’s were put off on the pricing of VMware Infrastructure 3 with Enterprise and Virtual Centre licences for a couple of [...]
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During a visit to Microsoft today had a demo of clustering Hyper-V. Demo environment consisted of 2 Windows 2008 servers attached to an ISCSI target with 2 disks, one operating as the data disk where the virtual machine will reside, the 2nd disk acted as the quorum disk for the cluster.
One thing I was impressed [...]
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Spent sometime today clarifying Microsoft’s stance on licensing Windows Servers as virtual machines, this applies regardless of which virtulisatuion platform the VM’s are running on e.g. VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Hyper-V.
With standard Windows server licences you have to buy a licence for each VM running Windows Server as the guest OS.
With an enterprise licence you [...]
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