FrankieBoyWell ReedMikel the simple answer to one of your questions, why i chose to use Hyper-V over VMware?, if you subscribe to Microsofts Action Pack you get all your software virtually free, as long as it is for your own use (business needs). so i run Server 2008 IIS7 and SQL 2008 and only cost me 250 english pounds...lol and all the other MS products i care to use within the lisences they allocate for each product. Works great for me, hope this helps.
Chris TThe Hyper V Server 2008 is not the Hyper V that is part of 2008 and runs as its own operating system simliar to VMWare ESXi.
ReedMikelI did not know that there was a Hyper V Server 2008 that is its own os - thanks for that info. But now it's getting even more confusing
chimoeJust wanted to let everyone know. You can get the vmWare Licenses for FREE if you signup for vmware's partner program. We have about 100k worth of vmware software which we got for Internal Use free with our partner program.
smbtechnologyYou may want to check with the respective vendors. Supposedly Action Pack software cannot be used for Kaseya as all use is to be on your own premises and the agents checking in violate this as you are running a public facing web server/SQL backend. It doesn't make sense to me as you are just dogfooding MS products and can show clients what you can do with the stuff. Don't know about VMWare, they tend not to be so stuffy.
chimoeJust wanted to let everyone know. You can get the vmWare Licenses for FREE if you signup for vmware's partner program. We have about 100k worth of vmware software which we got for Internal Use free with our partner program. http://www.vmware.com/partners/programs/solution-provider/benefits.html also, they will offer free certification training for sales and pre-sales engineer which you can take online to learn their productline. Well worth the time spent if you want to embrase the whole virtualzation rush going on.
QLTPLSPersonally, I think everything other than Exchange and large SQL installations should be virtualized.