[Info-vax] VMware

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/8/2019 10:40 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/8/2019 7:50 PM, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
>> I guess I need to set something straight. VMware has always been at 
>> the top of our list but the VMware folks wouldn't give us the time of 
>> day. Now they are talking to us. That is why we started working with 
>> Fusion. We need them to officially support VMS as a guest OS. That 
>> takes a business agreement between the two companies which now seems a 
>> possibility. There was no sign of that until a couple weeks ago.
>>
>> ESX is obviously the goal. Anything else just gives us easier ways to 
>> get a sense of how much work it will take to get there.
> 
> I'm not at all familiar with any of the VMware products.  Personally, I 
> don't see the appeal.  But I've been out to lunch for so long that I may 
> never find my way back.  So what do I know.

In on-premise data centers:
* the super-MS-centric runs Hyper-V
* the "it has to be free" crowd runs KVM or Xen
* practically everybody else runs VMWare ESXi

In cloud it is different:
* Amazon and Google runs KVM
* MS runs Hyper-V

Bottom line I think is that to get significant number of new
customers on-premise VSI need VMWare and for cloud they need KVM.

Arne