I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?
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@siringo said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
Maybe Hyper-V is more well known by more sys admins world wide and that's why it's so widely used?
Everyone knows Windows Server, it's a natural and free progression from there.People who's entry into the field is Microsoft certification training this may be true, but I find it's just enough to deploy and troubleshoot a non-clustered instance. Once you mix in clustering their ability to deal with CSV's generally isn't there.
Some small cluster deployments are because Microsoft paid (quite a lot of money actually) to the partners to stand up a Hyper-V Cluster. Throwing money at the channel will get a product deployed until it burns someone.
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@storageninja said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@siringo said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
Maybe Hyper-V is more well known by more sys admins world wide and that's why it's so widely used?
Everyone knows Windows Server, it's a natural and free progression from there.People who's entry into the field is Microsoft certification training this may be true, but I find it's just enough to deploy and troubleshoot a non-clustered instance. Once you mix in clustering their ability to deal with CSV's generally isn't there.
I think that he means that the name is more well known. I think it's very obvious that the product itself is not well known at all, and especially not known or understood by Windows admins. They are specifically the group that seems to have consistently no base level knowledge of it, it's relationship to Windows, and constantly repeat the "everyone has been told" myths over and over.
If you talk to other IT disciplines, knowledge of Hyper-V seems "normal". But specifically in the Windows Admin ranks, the pervasive misinformation appears to have taken such a firm root that the group you'd expect to have the best passing knowledge of it seems ot have the least.
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@storageninja said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
Some small cluster deployments are because Microsoft paid (quite a lot of money actually) to the partners to stand up a Hyper-V Cluster. Throwing money at the channel will get a product deployed until it burns someone.
This is what explains the numbers around things like S2D, too. Channel pushing it where it makes no sense and the customers are too small so that when it fails, no one hears about it.
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@storageninja said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
As @StorageNinja once said, 99% of Hyper-V installations are done by accident or by mistake.
John White and I used to keep a list of people who were mistaken that Hyper-V had special licensing rights. At one point it was over 75% of why people went Hyper-V.
What do you mean by this... that those people thought Hyper-V gave them special licensing rights to running Windows guests or something?
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@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@storageninja said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
As @StorageNinja once said, 99% of Hyper-V installations are done by accident or by mistake.
John White and I used to keep a list of people who were mistaken that Hyper-V had special licensing rights. At one point it was over 75% of why people went Hyper-V.
What do you mean by this... that those people thought Hyper-V gave them special licensing rights to running Windows guests or something?
Correct. People who deployed Hyper-V because they believed it provided something that was not true.
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@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
Cosmos Darwin: Storage Spaces Direct: 10,000 Clusters and counting
I'm curious to see how much permanent data loss has occurred as a result of using S2D.
Very little, because no one is using it in production. This helps them hide just how bad the situation is. Only 10K clusters means it's not even being tested heavily.
"No one is using it in production." <-- False.
Making broad brush stroke claims like that is fallacious at best.
There are in-production S2D clusters.
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@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
Cosmos Darwin: Storage Spaces Direct: 10,000 Clusters and counting
I'm curious to see how much permanent data loss has occurred as a result of using S2D.
Very little, because no one is using it in production. This helps them hide just how bad the situation is. Only 10K clusters means it's not even being tested heavily.
"No one is using it in production." <-- False.
Making broad brush stroke claims like that is fallacious at best.
There are in-production S2D clusters.
The point being, extremely few. To the point of being statistical noise.
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@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
"No one is using it in production." <-- False.
figure cited is the number of currently active clusters reporting anonymized census-level telemetry, excluding internal Microsoft deployments and those that are obviously not production, such as clusters that exist for less than 7 days (e.g. demo environments) or single-node Azure Stack Development Kits. Clusters which cannot or do not report telemetry are also not included.
When you have 10K clusters, and your competitors have (Singular) customers closing in on that many clusters that's noise. VMware is reporting over 14K Customers.
The industry standard for reporting product usage is reporting total customer count. Microsoft either knows is embarrassing low, or outright doesn't have the information. My lab which includes a SSD cluster (which is nested on top of vSAN) qualifies as "production" by this definition. Hell if Starwind or Veeams QA lab is leaving stuff on over 7 days he's a production customer!
For comparison VMware and Nutanix both state the number of paying customers they have on earnings calls. This is audited, and making a false statement here could incur jail time. Since both sell discrete software SKU's for their HCI product (and can track generation of licensing keys in the portal) they can give real and actually specific numbers. VMware's phone home tracking (CEIP) can at least tell if a licensing key is a production key vs. a demo or lab license key. It also can tell if the deployment is nested (is the hardware detected as "VMware or some sort of paravirtual device) making it easy to filter and identify. Microsoft including all clusters more than 7 days old that were not on their network and include non-licensed clusters is highly dubious.
When a vendor uses odd qualifications to report customer adoption that are non-standard and use vague criteria you assume the reality doesn't smell like roses.
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@phlipelder said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
As far as licensing S2D goes, we SPLA the DC license with our SMB deployments starting at 10-15 seats and up. They are also great ReFS repositories for Veeam (something they request to have under their backups).
This only works if they are on your servers, running in your datacenter. You can't use SPLA for customer owned gear.
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@storageninja said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
This only works if they are on your servers, running in your datacenter. You can't use SPLA for customer owned gear.
Last I checked, you can use SPLA on customer gear. Rule was changed about 1-2 years ago, IIRC.
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@stacksofplates said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@bnrstnr said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@bnrstnr said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
My opinion is Hyper-V is only an option when you need vSAN, otherwise I’m just not buying it.
What makes it special in that case? AFAIK there is no production vSAN for Hyper-V that is unique to it. Hyper-V is effectively completely dependent on Starwind for vSAN and they recommend KVM most of the time.
Right, Starwind makes it a more viable solution because it’s free and easy and well documented, right?
No, Starwind does not. Starwind just doesn't discriminate against it. Starwind is just as easy on VMware or KVM. So it's a draw, unless you consider Xen, then it is just a negative for Xen.
Eh not really. They dropped support for the virtual appliance on anything other than VMware. So you have to manually do the work on KVM/Hyper-V or just aren't able to do it at all. I can't tell.
This one will be back soon. We'll have a GA for VMware VSA around next week and KVM will follow.
In general we shift our focus from "Hyper-V and VMware" to "VMware and KVM". Reason: Hyper-V doesn't grow anymore and KVM has very high chances to supersede it. VMware... There's just more money there
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@kooler
Hello everyone!
Let me add some insides about StarWind VSA since I am with StarWind for some time:)
As it was mentioned already by @kooler right now our development team works on the next release of StarWind VSA. The main focus at the moment is VMware and KVM - thus we will get HyperConverged setup with KVM and StarWind!
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@kooler said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
In general we shift our focus from "Hyper-V and VMware" to "VMware and KVM". Reason: Hyper-V doesn't grow anymore and KVM has very high chances to supersede it. VMware... There's just more money there
Could you expand on your statement about Hyper-V not growing? Thanks
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@kooler said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@stacksofplates said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@bnrstnr said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@bnrstnr said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
My opinion is Hyper-V is only an option when you need vSAN, otherwise I’m just not buying it.
What makes it special in that case? AFAIK there is no production vSAN for Hyper-V that is unique to it. Hyper-V is effectively completely dependent on Starwind for vSAN and they recommend KVM most of the time.
Right, Starwind makes it a more viable solution because it’s free and easy and well documented, right?
No, Starwind does not. Starwind just doesn't discriminate against it. Starwind is just as easy on VMware or KVM. So it's a draw, unless you consider Xen, then it is just a negative for Xen.
Eh not really. They dropped support for the virtual appliance on anything other than VMware. So you have to manually do the work on KVM/Hyper-V or just aren't able to do it at all. I can't tell.
This one will be back soon. We'll have a GA for VMware VSA around next week and KVM will follow.
In general we shift our focus from "Hyper-V and VMware" to "VMware and KVM". Reason: Hyper-V doesn't grow anymore and KVM has very high chances to supersede it. VMware... There's just more money there
Excellent news!
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@pmoncho said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@kooler said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
In general we shift our focus from "Hyper-V and VMware" to "VMware and KVM". Reason: Hyper-V doesn't grow anymore and KVM has very high chances to supersede it. VMware... There's just more money there
Could you expand on your statement about Hyper-V not growing? Thanks
% between VMware, ESXi and KVM for acquired number of customers doesn't look good for Microsoft.
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@kooler said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@pmoncho said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@kooler said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
In general we shift our focus from "Hyper-V and VMware" to "VMware and KVM". Reason: Hyper-V doesn't grow anymore and KVM has very high chances to supersede it. VMware... There's just more money there
Could you expand on your statement about Hyper-V not growing? Thanks
% between VMware, ESXi and KVM for acquired number of customers doesn't look good for Microsoft.
That is interesting. Do you think (or anyone here) that it is because of Microsoft focusing and moving more clients on Azure?
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@pmoncho said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@kooler said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@pmoncho said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
@kooler said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:
In general we shift our focus from "Hyper-V and VMware" to "VMware and KVM". Reason: Hyper-V doesn't grow anymore and KVM has very high chances to supersede it. VMware... There's just more money there
Could you expand on your statement about Hyper-V not growing? Thanks
% between VMware, ESXi and KVM for acquired number of customers doesn't look good for Microsoft.
That is interesting. Do you think (or anyone here) that it is because of Microsoft focusing and moving more clients on Azure?
Apples and Oranges
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