MS Hypervisor VS VMware? E905, ProgressDB

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Epicor will run on either just fine.

Personally, I prefer VMware. My experience with the MS platform is somewhat
limited, but from what I've seen VMware is easier to setup, tune, maintain,
etc.

While I've never personally had issues with either platform, I hear
complaints about MS now and again and I can't recall the last time I ran
into someone having issues with VMware.

The VMware community is definitely much larger.

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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:06 AM, nskrede@... <nskrede@...>wrote:

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> Hello all!
>
> We're at the point in our SMB environment that upgrading our server
> hardware/software is fairly imminent. We have a new dedicated physical
> server for our E905 (currently configuring and training staff before
> deployment), but I'm looking at our other servers (DCs, exchange, etc) and
> toying with moving to a virtualized environment for those systems.
>
> Thinking long term, if we configure a powerful virtualized backed, I'd
> like to have the ability to virtualize our E905 using that same hypervisor
> as well.
>
> There is still a toss up between MS Hypervisor, and VMware for hypervisor
> backend. Either would work for our non-ERP servers. I've read white papers
> available for both with Epicor, but am looking for first-hand accounts.
>
> Any performance testimonies for E9+ on either? Any red flag items to be
> aware of? Tips? Advice? Horror stories?
>
> First post for me to the group too!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Nick Skrede
>
>
>


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Hello all!

We're at the point in our SMB environment that upgrading our server hardware/software is fairly imminent. We have a new dedicated physical server for our E905 (currently configuring and training staff before deployment), but I'm looking at our other servers (DCs, exchange, etc) and toying with moving to a virtualized environment for those systems.

Thinking long term, if we configure a powerful virtualized backed, I'd like to have the ability to virtualize our E905 using that same hypervisor as well.

There is still a toss up between MS Hypervisor, and VMware for hypervisor backend. Either would work for our non-ERP servers. I've read white papers available for both with Epicor, but am looking for first-hand accounts.

Any performance testimonies for E9+ on either? Any red flag items to be aware of? Tips? Advice? Horror stories?

First post for me to the group too!

Thanks again,

Nick Skrede