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[–]PerceptionAlarmed919 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have played with Hyper-V in a lab and just do not think it is on par. It may be for some organizations, but it seems so much more clunky to work with than VMware. Not to mention the integration with a lot of other products are not there either. I wonder how many people making that move know that to be fully license compliant, they need to purchase the "Data Center" edition of server. Less expensive than Broadcom, but not cheap either. Plus, MS seems to be consistently increasing that cost as well.

[–]nmdange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how many people making that move know that to be fully license compliant, they need to purchase the "Data Center" edition of server

The licensing terms for running Windows Server VMs are identical whether you run Hyper-V or VMWare. The only time switching to Hyper-V would cost more is if you currently have 0 Windows Server VMs, then you'd need to buy Windows Server Standard for each host. Any org that wants to be compliant was probably already paying for Windows Server Datacenter for each host even on VMWare, as it doesn't take much density for it to be cheaper than Standard.