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Networking – Step 1 Part B
Posted by admin on November 11, 2011 in Networking | ∞
So the VM discussion comes down to cost, requirements and features.
For this situation I was strapped with a budget of $0 for this portion. Since all three vendors have a free version that didn’t make the decision.
With the budget restriction I knew that I’d be dealing with older hardware – that took Citrix off the table. System backups are essential so that became the next driver.
With the free version of VMWare the backup API is disabled and that would mean utilizing a batch copy procedure rather than a simple backup. Microsoft has stepped up the game with the 2008 version of Hyper-V. The backups via Hyper-V are simple, easy and it even triages the VMs prior to backup. Thus Hyper-V it is.
Next up hardware decisions.