...| Microsoft vs VMware | What’s the difference 10-13-2014 Intro to Networking Online | Microsoft vs VMware Virtualization There are two types of virtualization software applications. One type is called Microsoft APP-V software and vSphere 5.5 or known as VMware virtualization. I am going to discuss three main differences between to two programs. One difference will be discussing licensing. Some other differences noted are Disk space and Support programs. I will also discuss memory, and ease of use. Microsoft APP-V software is a program that allows organizations to host the application and deliver virtually to users. From the users perspective it runs like an installed program, however from the IT admins point of view it is much easier to manage and maintain a single instance of the application. Since APP-V software is never installed locally there is no conflict or compatibility issues to worry about. (Bradley, 2012) VMWare vitalization software is the same as Microsoft APP-V software with a few minor differences. One big difference is that there is cost to operate certain features in the software. Both Microsoft APP-V and VMWare vitalization can both be operated on all Microsoft OS, but Microsoft APP-V cannot operate on MAC IOS. Storage capacity is comparable to Microsoft APP-V, however you will need to purchase additional licenses to operate certain features that in Microsoft APP-V the licenses are already provided. (Mayer, 2013) One comparison and contrast...
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...NT1210 Module 5 - Essay Comparing Microsoft and VMware Solutions for Virtual Computing Team # 4 Instructor Ms. Jones February 12, 2015 Virtual computing is becoming more and more of a useful tool in the IT world. Two virtual computing solutions that are useful are Microsoft and VMware. This essay will give a comparison of the two along with some helpful information. Depending on what you want to do with virtualization; this document may assist you in determining which solution to use. The VMware product was created in 1999 and is considered a mature product. Using VMware has many more features compared to its competitor, Microsoft. VMware uses more than thirteen hundred technologies partners and has a mass amount of storage. It is more complex and difficult to configure compared to Microsoft Virtual PC. VMware has been around longer compared to Virtual PC and has better reliability. This product has several benchmarking software that has proven itself when it comes to performance. Microsoft came out with their version 4 years after VMware was produced; which is called Virtual PC. They have created multiple versions to keep up with their competitor (Davis, 2009) (Dix, 2010). Comparison List VMware MS Virtual PC | Pros | Cons | Pros | Cons | User Friendly | | x | x | | Cost | | x | x | | Features | x | | | x | Performance | x | | | x | Design | | | | | Supports Linux | x | | x | | Product Documentation |...
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...Michael Ray Comparison between VMware and Microsoft HyperV ITT Technical Institute Upon first glance when comparing Microsoft HyperV for server 2012 and VMware vSphere 5.5, several differences shine out for me that place HyperV above VMware. As we are all aware (in this industry) that VMware has had virtualization in place since 2001, that doesn’t make it the best choice, just based on seniority. The fact that vSphere is used primarily in systems with open source OS doesn’t make it the best choice for business either. On that, some people are die hard Linux fans who will say and do anything to prove how much they dislike Microsoft. It’s comical because the one company they detest is responsible for easily 90% of the growth in this field. If Microsoft had not been so successful, where would we be now in terms of overall business computing? It seems likely that manufacturers update and improve their products in order to stay one or two steps ahead of the competition. In one way, this stagnates evolution and leaves businesses wanting more without ever getting it. It seems funny that businesses aren’t asking for things, or don’t know they want things that haven’t even been created yet. In that vein, computer users and network geeks only use what’s available to them for the most part. .Few companies have a development team to add to what Microsoft has done. To improve the benefit of the purchased software I mean. That is left to software development companies. VMware gets a lot...
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...Virtual Computing | Comparing Microsoft and VMware solutions | | Jacob D. Smith | 10/21/2015 | | With so many features called by differing names in each virtualization platform, comparing Microsoft and VMware virtualization solutions can sometimes seem a bit like comparing apples and oranges. But, I’ll try to boil things down to a real-world perspective based on my experience implementing both solutions in the field throughout my career. In this article, I’ll provide a summarized comparison of the feature sets provided by each of these latest releases using the currently available public information from both Microsoft and VMware as of this article’s publication date for additional reference. How to compare? Rather than simply comparing feature-by-feature using just simple check-marks in each category, I’ll try to provide as much detail as possible for you to intelligently compare each area. As I’m sure you’ve heard before, sometimes the “devil is in the details”. For each comparison area, I’ll rate the related capabilities with the following color coded rankings: * Supported – Fully supported without any additional products or licenses * Limited Support – Significant limitations when using related feature, or limitations in comparison to the competing solution represented * Not Supported – Not supported at all or without the addition of other product licensing costs In this Essay, I’ve organized the comparison into the following sections: ...
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...8/8/2014 Mrs. Oliver 1 Comparison between Microsoft and VMware With the Microsoft Cloud OS vision, people get one consistent platform that goes beyond just virtualization, and includes management, automation, development platform, network, data, and identity. Microsoft offers a platform that supports peoples’ needs from bare metal up through applications and out to devices, including mission-critical workloads, from leading solution providers that include Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. People can choose the platform that's right for their entire business, and adapt as the needs of their business change. In-text reference: (Microsoft, 2014). Microsoft changes Hyper-V in each version, which creates a learning curve for IT staff with every new Windows release. In-text reference: (IT World, 2014) VMware has publically changed its product roadmaps several times over the last few years. VMware touts these changes as product evolution, but existing people are left behind with a product that might be unsupported or unfit for the future. VMware's approach is to virtualize everything, and other components like apps, management, identity, and data are viewed through that lens only, without true consideration for the benefits provided by cloud services like application portability, resiliency, and elasticity as well as a common identity platform. Unlike Windows Server and Azure, VMware is not certified and supported by Oracle. In-text reference: (Microsoft, 2014). With its ...
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... This paper introduces a comparison of the organizational changes that Microsoft and VMware have recently undergone. The overall focus will be around the new Microsoft CEO and the job cuts announced recently (Nadella, Rigby 2014) and VMware’s job cuts and the refocus efforts (Leske, 2013) and how these changes helped them to become stronger to meet the market demands. I am very interested in these 2 companies because I worked for Microsoft nearly for 12 years, and I am currently working for VMware for the past 2 years. They both compete in the Cloud Computing industry. Microsoft focuses on Office 365 and Azure clouds to deliver on its core: the “productivity and platform” company (Nadella, 2014) –public clouds. VMware, however, focuses on the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and the whole notion of software defined datacenter (SDDC), i.e. private cloud with a recent focus on vCloud Air, which is the public cloud. With the relevantly new VMware CEO (Pat Gelsinger) and the job-cuts decision to become laser focused on three key businesses within the company: Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), End User Computing, and vCloud Air. In other words, the focus is on how to build private clouds in your datacenter out of software (e.g. virtual servers, virtual storage, and virtual network), how to virtualize the desktop experience, and how to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) out of a public cloud. Similarly, with Satya Nadella (new Microsoft CEO) and the decision around...
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...VMware vSphere 5 Key Features and Benefits Comparison KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS VSPHERE 5 ENTERPRISE PLUS WINDOWS SERVER 2008 MICROSOFT HYPER-V R2 SP1 CITRIX XENSERVER 5.6 SP2 RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION 2.2 Infrastructure Services: Virtualize and Aggregate Hardware Resources VMware vSphere™ infrastructure services transform discrete hardware resources into a shared mainframe-like computing platform that is incredibly resilient and capable of running the most demanding applications with near-native performance. VMware Compute: Infrastructure services that efficiently virtualize server resources and aggregate them into logical pools that can precisely be allocated to applications. VMware ESXi - virtualize server resources comprehensively • Bare-metal architecture VMware ESXi inserts a robust virtualization layer directly on the server hardware for near-native virtual machine performance, reliability and scalability. 3 Yes, but Hyper-V requires Windows Server 2008. The stand-alone Hyper-V Server R2 requires a large portion of Windows Server 2008 Yes, but XenServer requires a Linux OS in the Domain 0 management partition No, RHEV requires a Red Hat Enterprise Linux host OS • Small footprint. VMware ESXi is a compact, 144MB hypervisor. It is a fraction of the size of a general purpose operating system for unparalleled security and reliability. 3 No Microsoft Hyper-V R2 SP1 with Server Core has a 3.6 GB footprint No XenServer 5.6 including its Linux...
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...VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft's Hyper-V are the two heading stages for server virtualization. Despite the fact that they give comparative gimmicks and usefulness, the way they oversee capacity for virtual machines is altogether different. VMware’s VSphere is a type 1 hypervisor and is based on a microkernel used to run features that are need to support the virtualization. Type 1 hypervisors run straightforwardly on server fittings and go about as the deliberation layer between the physical assets of the server and the virtual assets relegated to the virtual machine. Hyper-V is conveyed in two structures, either as a standalone Type 1 hypervisor (known as Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 in the most recent discharge) or as a component of the Windows Server working framework, where the Hyper-V gimmick is actualized as a "part". On both stages, the hypervisor oversees physical capacity assets and the presentation of capacity to the virtual machines. A virtual machine is embodied in various documents that speak to both the arrangement and substance of the virtual server. Hyper-V and the vsphere stage utilize the idea of a virtual hard plate, which is similar to the physical hard drive in a standard server. VSphere utilizes the VMDK (virtual machine circles) design, though Hyper-V uses VHD and VHDX (virtual hard circle and virtual hard plate amplified). Both stages additionally utilize various extra documents to track virtual machine design and to handle things when virtual machines are suspended...
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...Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware Best Practices Guide Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware Best Practices Guide © 2011 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. This product is covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/download/patents.html. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. VMware, Inc 3401 Hillview Ave Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.vmware.com © 2011 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Page 2 of 70 Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware Best Practices Guide Contents 1. Introduction ...................................................................................... 7 1.1 Purpose .......................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Target Audience ............................................................................................................. 7 1.3 Scope ............................................................................................................................. 8 2. VMware ESX Host Best Practices for Exchange .............................. 9 2.1 CPU Configuration Guidelines ....................................................................................... 9 2.2 Memory...
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...to the organization. Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. The 1960s was when virtualization was first deployed by IBM, itts main purpose was to operate mainframe hardware through separating them into virtual machine. In the 1980s and 1990s virtualization was not needed due to the growing numbers of desktop computing and x86 servers. New issues came to rise such as soaring maintenance and managing cost which lead to the creation of virtualization for x86 platform. Virtualization significantly drops general IT costs. Virtualization permits you to run several operating systems on a single computer. In July 2006 Microsoft made public a free Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 which is a windows hosted virtualization program. The latest version is combined with Windows 7 operating system (http://www.infobarrel.com/History_of_Virtualization). Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was designed to run a single operating system and a single application. This leaves most machines vastly underutilized. Virtualization lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments. Hypervisors 3 Virtualization is a framework or...
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...Introduction to Marketing Principles Coursework [pic] Introduction Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation which competes in several worldwide markets. Microsoft Corporation specialise in products ranging from computing software to mobile hand-held devices. It started off as a relatively small company, where they exclusively specialised in computing software. The corporation officially began in November 1976, when the 'Microsoft' trademark was registered by Bill Gates and Allen. There was a key breakthrough deal, which without Microsoft Corporation would not be what is today. This breakthrough deal took place in 1980. Bill Gates had agreed to produce the operating system for the personal computer. The personal computer was being developed by IBM, at the time IBM was the monopoly of the computing world. Microsoft had not signed or endeared itself to make the deal of producing the operating system exclusive to IBM. It meant that Microsoft had retained the option of producing the operating system for other large companies. This was a key occurrence as it allowed Microsoft to expand at a rapid pace and supply its operating system to other companies. The choice of Microsoft by IBM effectively brought Microsoft from anonymity to fame. It quickly expanded and became a large computing software company. Microsoft was then released in 1989. This immediately had an impact as this computing software was specifically designed for to be used with...
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...WeMakeConnections TTI Multi Campus Network Executive Summary: WeMakeConnections is an up-and-coming networking and infrastructure company; we offer network solutions that are customized to each client, and their specific financial and technical needs. We provide a le82vel of service you would expect from a close friend, not a company. We service all network sizes, large and small, and have worked extensively with existing network upgrades, as well as total network creation. WeMakeConnections offers personalized services to match any budget. In this day and age competition is fierce, and money is tight. That is why we only hire people who love networking; they know what works, what doesn't, and where we can cut waste. That is why WeMakeConnections is the only company that offers a complimentary follow up, one month after your network is complete. We want to make sure you love your network. Each of our eight core employee's graduated from the prestigious ITT Tech, San Diego. Each has a passion for networking, and genuine love for problem solving. From the cabling in the walls to workstations on the desks, a trained professional will be on the job. Based on the request for proposal from TTI, we have created what may be, our masterpiece work. The following pages detail our plan of action for TTI's success, and subsequent expansions. We are confident that our network provides the best return on investment for TTI's four additional campuses, and will be easily scaled to...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Information Systems & Technology | | |POS/355 Version 9 | | |MU12BIT08 | | |Introduction to Operational Systems | | |Wk 1 June 10 | | |Wk 2 June 17 | | |Wk 3 June 24 | | |Wk 4 July 01 | | |Wk 5 July 08 ...
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...Week 3 Reflection - Outline BIS320 Week 3 Reflection - Outline I. Introduction - Carl A. State purpose of paper, introduce book stores… Amazon is growing and leading sales with a strategy that appeals to non-bookstore buyers. BAM is struggling, while Barnes and Nobles appears to be shifting to more of an Amazon like strategy. All of the companies utilize internet websites. B. Comparison of sales in 2011...Amazon leads the way with $7.96B (excludes electronics, services - books, includes books, music, DVDs) and is growing. Barnes and Noble was second with $4.36B. BAM trailed with $468MM on declining sales. C. Introduce software programs utilized D. Introduce hardware. II. Amazon – Veronica A. History and Mission - Founded in 1994 as Cadabra by Jeff Bezos with global headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Although, its profits were slow coming at the beginning, as planned by Bezos, the annual sales in 2011 were of $48.08 billion with a customer based on 30 million customers worldwide (Marketing Teacher, 2012).In July 1995, the first book sold on Amazon.com was Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought (Amazon Media Room, 2012). B. Software utilized - Linux,Oracle,C++,Perl, Mason,Java, Jboss, Servlets (Stack Exchange, 2012). 1. Communications 2. Databases 3. Security C. Hardware - Hardware used includes SCSI / SATA RAID internal storage are some of the software, security...
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...Second International Symposium on Information Science and Engineering Comparison of Several Cloud Computing Platforms Junjie Peng Xuejun Zhang Zhou Lei, Bofeng Zhang, Wu Zhang, Qing Li School of computer science & High performance computing center Shanghai University Shanghai, 200072 P.R. China School of computer science & High Qinghua machinery factory at Changzhi performance computing center Changzhi, 046012 P.R China Shanghai University Shanghai, 200072 P.R. China Abstract—Cloud computing is the development of parallel computing, distributed computing and grid computing. It has been one of the most hot research topics. Now many corporations have involved in the cloud computing related techniques and many cloud computing platforms have been put forward. This is a favorable situation to study and application of cloud computing related techniques. Though interesting, there are also some problems for so many flatforms. For to a novice or user with little knowledge about cloud computing, it is still very hard to make a reasonable choice. What differences are there for different cloud computing platforms and what characteristics and advantages each has? To answer these problems, the characteristics, architectures and applications of several popular cloud computing platforms are analyzed and discussed in detail. From the comparison of these platforms, users can better understand the different cloud platforms and more reasonablely choose what they want. Keywords-cloud computing;...
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