Costs of running a VM (Hyper-V vs VMWare)
I was recently in a debate with an IT Pro about Hyper-V and VMWare. I can't name him as i have not asked for his permission to be named here. He's been using VMWare for quite a while and he was seriously pissed when Microsoft released Hyper-V. I take it in a good way.
We were trying to argue who will be cheaper and he brought up a formula on how he calculates if Hyper-V or VMWare is cheaper. In a similar fashion, i stumbled on a blog entry by a MSFTie which discusses this with all the algebras.
He is James O'Niel. Here's his blog. http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/03/15/vmware-running-hot-enough-to-cook-the-figures.aspx
Please read his blog and you'll find it very interesting to know that Hyper-V is indeed cheaper, even though Hyper-V doesn't allow us to overcommit the memory for a VM.
/Dennis
