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About 5 years ago
Contributed a review of MySQL: Has the ability to run on any operating system
Over 6 years ago
Answered a question: I would like to compare Dynatrace and AppDynamics. On what basis should I decide?
I am in the process of reviewing Dynatrace and AppDynamics. For one, I had trouble installing AppDynamics on my Windows machine (Windows 2012 - 2016) and on Linux. When I gave it my credentials and port information, once that was done at the Linux level, it continued to ask…
About 7 years ago
Commented on Out of the box features for easy asset discovery, vulnerability scans, IDS setup are all beneficial.
I would like to see root cause analysis and big data relationships as part of the overall solution.
Also, the query should feed into a larger data matrix of solutions where they feed into machine learning solutions to address the problem - intelligent situational awareness.
About 7 years ago
Commented on You can deploy the OVA/QCOW2 file to multiple hypervisor platforms or use a RHEL distribution.
Do you work or have worked for Turbonomic.
Just curious?
T
Over 7 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating Virtualization Management Tools, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtualization_software - Wikipedia provides a comprehensive application suite
→ http://virtualization.softwareinsider.com - interactive comparison site
→…
Over 7 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
Hello, I have not been on the site in a while but I would like to start with my findings using VMware 6.0 (U 2), it seems that VMware has made numerous changes to the compatibility matrix as it relates to hardware. One of the changes we have found is the onboard NIC cards…
About 9 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating Virtualization Management Tools, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
reviewer210162 - I think that is a very good and comprehensive list.
I do think there are numerous tools to address issues in the market, we won't address all of them but I do think this is a good start or at least answering the question.
Todd
About 9 years ago
I have to piggy back on Vinod, excellent analysis.
I will be sure to keep the two solutions "Log Management" & "Correlation Engine - SIEM" separate when I have discussions about which product to choose.
Todd
About 9 years ago
Yes, this has been out for quit some time. It is the new version of VMware 6 and the VMware vCloud Air
I have been using it for a while now VIO, they use to call it VOVA. I like it, and they offer the Openstack addition as a OVF that can be installed.
HP has a solution…
Over 9 years ago
Answered a question: RSA-EMC vs. other SIEM products?
@Santhakumar
I think the only thing you were looking for was a matrix to do a SIEM comparison. It seems that people are making assumptions and while interjecting instead of listening to what you are asking. I am not going to assume, please review the list to see if this is…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on Cost effective and best solution available. Compatibility with non-standard devices should be improved.
The VMware VCloud Director works very nice in this environment but to the point made earlier, It would like to see more interoperability with other open software organizations to create a ubiquitous solution that spans the glob e
Also, I would like to see VMware adopt…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on Cost effective and best solution available. Compatibility with non-standard devices should be improved.
The only problem I would say with this assertion is the issues with interoperability with Openstack and other openflow technologies
With openstack, there is a basic configuration you have to setup with the network connection "BR100", then the user has to setup a NFS…
Over 9 years ago
Answered a question: VMware ESXi or VMware Workstation?
I am in agreement with Mr. Perry, if you are looking at performance, ESXi is stripped down version of linux/unix that runs on a baremetal machine. In addition, the services that run on the ESXi server is very small in nature (VPXA, AAM, VMAP), most of the management is done…
Over 9 years ago
Answered a question: Oracle VM vs. latest VMWare?
Check out this comparison
This is not a complete comparison because it does not list all of the applications that VMware supports. Most of the Windows applications, VMware supports (there are updates that need to be made but this gives an apples to apples comparison -…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on Hyper-V As An Enterprise Solution: Are We There Yet?
Pleae review the link listed below, this would be a good frame of reference - http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category_search=all&free_based=1
But to answer your question, what is the intended purpose of the server or its use, that will help to determine how…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
I am looking into other disruptive technologies that seem to be changing the landscape, let me know if anyone has experienced any ground breaking technology.
Todd
Over 9 years ago
Answered a question: What are the must-haves for a SIEM solution?
→ What are the must-haves for a SIEM solution? I think to the point of Vikas, it is important to determine the size and scope of the device; however, the question was based on must haves, so if I were to answer the question it would the following
• Monitor S,J,N flows of…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
@Dan
That was the whole point to help others but you responded to something that was not directed at you.
One thing, be sure to read this statement:
"May I suggest you read and understand the spirit of the I formation and not focus on something not even being the topic…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
@Dan Gilman
The comments I made were directed at Dan Withrow and not Dan Gillman, if you were to take the time and read the sections above (Stop at 7-13-2014), besides, I don't think you ever responded to any of my comments before 7-13-2014.
But now that you are in the…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
@kapilmalik1983
If I were to look at the three virtalization solutions from the matrix - http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category_search=all&free_based=1
One thing I would suggest before making a general statement would be to define your requirements, once…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
@Dan
Out of all the things that I named, you picked the one thing that was part of an overall discussion of Citrix products. Ok, for one, in order to work with VDI, yes, it works on Xendesktop but it requires a license to use (the statement you made about a free license is…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Switched from Citrix XEN and EMC VMWare: No downtime when node needs service but web interface could be simplified
Sorry about that, there is a way to configure a teamed connection, it is called OVS bond or Linux bond but not with vmbr0
I think my question is why is it not part of the vmbr0 connection. I see that if bonding (2x connections) is involved, there needs to be more than 3…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Switched from Citrix XEN and EMC VMWare: No downtime when node needs service but web interface could be simplified
→ From a security perspective, the system does not come with iptables pre-configured, there is not an section on the interface to address this issue, the management interface of this does not exist from a Gui perspective.
Todd
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Switched from Citrix XEN and EMC VMWare: No downtime when node needs service but web interface could be simplified
Ok, I have done my analysis of the product
I am enjoying using the product, there are some short comings and some advantages of the product:
Pros
→ Easy to install, the hardware needs to meet the Intel VT specifications
→ The bootup time took from 20-30 seconds to boot…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Switched from Citrix XEN and EMC VMWare: No downtime when node needs service but web interface could be simplified
Interesting, does Proxmox VE give you the capability of delivering VDI solutions to users
Also, since it runs on Debian, it should work pretty well with IPv6, does the solution support IPv6 using Openflow v1.3 (IPv6 capable virtual switches).
Because if it does, then this…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
Citrix Xenserver 6.2 is free but it does not give you the ability to take advantage of the feature sets (i.e. VDI, moving vms from one server to the next, etc). So what I am referring to is in production and not a home built system. On thing I stated was there is a support…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on We’re most impressed by LEM’s ease of deployment, automated reporting, and easy interface navigation.
@Bryon
Ok, so I think the answer is no, lol. I do understand that it can be difficult to get a copy of the product but is there anyone who is part of this discussion has ever worked with the solutions described above?
I do agree that Splunk is like putting together a SIEM…
Almost 10 years ago
Answered a question: IBM QRadar is rated above competitors (McAfee, Splunk, LogRhythm) in Gartner's 2020 Magic Quandrant. Agree/Disagree?
I asked this question in a previous discussion, what is your experience with the solutions
I went to Infoworld and found some pretty interesting results - http://www.infoworld.com/log-management-solutions-the-features-781
It seems that based on price, GFI took the prize…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on We’re most impressed by LEM’s ease of deployment, automated reporting, and easy interface navigation.
Report mentioned - http://infosecnirvana.com/siem-product-comparison-101/
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on We’re most impressed by LEM’s ease of deployment, automated reporting, and easy interface navigation.
I guess the question I have, have you tried other SIEM solutions on the market (i.e
1. HP ArcSight
2. McAfee Nitro
3. IBM QRadar
4. Splunk SIEM
5. RSA Security Analytic
6. LogRhythm.
There is an investigative report for the various SIEM solutions on the market,…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
@Horak
I would have to disagree with the statement about which one is better or worse and it does not matter. I think it does matter, because I want a product that I don't have monitor all the time, I want to know that it just works. Don't get me wrong, if I do think from…
Almost 10 years ago
Answered a question: How does VMware ESXi compare to alternative virtualization solutions?
There are a number of key points, but I do think there is a website that summed up the majority for you
http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category_search=all&free_based=1
They compare Redhat, VMware, Citrix and Hyper-V where you can do a comparison with one…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on VMware vSphere Rocks
One thing I noticed, there are scalability issues, this is based on the database and the distance from the primary datacenter. No matter what you use, there are limitations as it relates
I am submitting the min/max guides for your review -…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on VMware vSphere Rocks
No problem, there, I am a licensed reseller of VMware
Let me know what products you are interested in and I can provide quotes any VMware product.
If you are looking for something that is free download where you can play with it for 60 days, go to vmware.com, create an…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
I left this patch out as well - ESXi550-201404001
This is the last one of three. This site will not allow to make changes after we have posted, I wish the site would allow us to do that like Linkedin but oh well.
T
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
Sorry about that, it should say - "over the web through an IPv6 SSL AES256 tunnel"
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
By the way, we have installed and configured Hyper-V 2012 RC2 with the latest security patches, we have found it works well with Windows machines but when I tried to install Ubuntu or any Linux variants, I had trouble (we ensured the bootup sequence was set to DVD/CD). So we…
Almost 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
Also, there have been reported issues with the vmware ESXi 5.5 installation after an upgrade. Do not reboot the machine after you have upgraded your servers without patching them. We have found the following to address your needs
1st do not power up your vms as of yet or…
About 10 years ago
Answered a question: Which is the most suitable blade server for VMware ESXi?
I forgot, Cisco has a UCS platform as well.
Todd
About 10 years ago
Answered a question: Which is the most suitable blade server for VMware ESXi?
Then I have a question for you before we start answering that question
Do you have a list of requirements for this endeavor, such as processor speed, disk speed, latency, will there be databases installed on the application, budget/costs? But not only that, what are your…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
PFSense provides opensource licenses - https://www.pfsense.org/
I am not sure if you went to the site but there is a button the top right hand corner of the screen that says download, select where you want to download it and there you have it (GNU license).
T
About 10 years ago
Interesting, I wonder how Dell's server solution compares to the following systems
• IBM Blade Center
• HP C7000 Blade Server
• HP Moonshot
Just curious, especially when we talk about power consumption, total memory & speed, latency, manageability, interoperability with…
About 10 years ago
@Radu and Carlos
If you are installing Vsphere 5.1, it comes with a web interface, just be sure to install it, the software runs on port 9443, it is called VMware Vsphere Web Client. Most of the time, people select the default installation items instead of installing this…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
One thing about the comment made earlier about PFSense, we have found that it works pretty well with VMware Vsphere, it has the capability of obtaining an IPv6 address using DHCP or RADVD, once we we statically configured an IPv6 address on our firewall, we were able to…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
Sorry about that, just make sure ipv6 network are allowed to traverse the network.
• ip6tables -L -n --line-numbers.
Todd
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
@Trevor
Yes, you can download it for free - http://www.citrix.com/downloads/xenserver/evaluations-and-trial-software.html
@FrancisM,
You make some interesting comments but I am not sure if adding components to a VMware design would add more complexity, quite the…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
Sorry about that, the Citrix reinstatement fee is charged every year and not every month
One thing I have found is that VMware 5.1 has IPSec ESP/AH [ 3des-cbc | aes128-cbc ] capability, it is in its infancy stages (has to be configured at the command-line and it only works…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
I would agree with you Kevin, Citrix does give the user (SMB) the ability to setup the environment within minutes without a lot of functionality and/or the ability to do VMotion between various systems, but it is stable
I have configured Citrix for larger data warehouses…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
@Francis
I have not seen or heard about a web client in the making with MS Hyper-V. I think they rely on the windows machines running their Hyper-V client. I know VMware has two ways from the web (VMware Operations Manager running on tcp port 80,443, VMware also has a…
About 10 years ago
I think that is a Windows limitation
Per Physical ESXi Host VMware vSphere 5.1 VMware vSphere 5.5
Logical CPU 160 320
Virtual CPU 2048 4096
NUMA Nodes…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
As far as Hyper-V clustering, it seems we have found that when the clustering solution broke with the prior version of Hyper-V, we found that it was hard to recover. As far as with HA involving two clustering solutions, you have to have a Windows AD environment in place…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
That statement was from Dec 26, 2012, we found there to be problems when we first installed the beta version in our lab. And yes, the FC fabric works but we had problems when trying to configure a Hyper-V cluster solution using FC, then the only version that seemed to work…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
One thing to note, since IPv6 is such a major push, we noticed the versions of Citrix did not support IPv6 modules, we had to load the module, go to the kernel (sysctl -w ...ipv6_enable=1), enabled the connection on network.conf file by making a few changes and then IPv6 was…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Comparison of VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-V
Sorry for the delay, of course you can, the systems are based on this fundamental concept
One thing I will say, it seems that we have found NAND MLC Flash devices provide 10x improved capability when installing them on commodity based servers. In addition, VMware provides…
Over 10 years ago
Interesting comment kapilmalik1983
I am curious what makes it better, I am only asking because I have used VMware 5.1 and Citrix 6.5-7 and have found their front end solutions are second to none with the ability to work directly with encrypted environments, API integration…
Over 10 years ago
@Tina5giga
Quote1: Do you think cost can affect the rank or popularity of vSphere amongst businesses globally?
• Well, first you asked a question about could the cost of a product affect how you view it? The answer was based on that very premise where I described cost…
Over 10 years ago
The SAN I have used with ESXi hosts would be as follows:
→ All Brocade Enteprise product linesd
→ All Cisco MDS product lines
As far as storage arrays, HP EVA & 3Par, EMC VMX/DMX, IBM V7000 & SVC, etc.
Todd
Over 10 years ago
@tina5giga
Let me make sure I address your questions without a lot of confusion:
Quote: "If the cost of virtualization products in the market decreases way below that of vSphere in the future, would you still have the same stance?
Ok, if price is your only reason for…
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