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Microsoft’s new VMware migration offer for Windows Server 2016

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 08:03:40 +0000

Microsoft just announced a new VMware migration offer for Windows Server 2016. In a nutshell: If you switch from VMware to Hyper-V from during September 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017, you can get free Windows Server Datacenter licenses when buying Windows Server Datacenter + Software Assurance. That ultimately means customers only pay for Software …

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Enable SSH on VMware ESXi 6.0 via vSphere Client

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 22:37:01 +0000

In another blog post I wrote how you can enable SSH on a VMware ESXi 6.0 host directly on the host it self. In this blog post I show you how you can enable SSH on your VMware ESXi 6.0 host via the VMware vSphere Client. Open the VMware vSphere client and connected to your …

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Enable SSH on VMware ESXi 6.0

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:14:41 +0000

I already wrote some blog posts how you can enable SSH access for older VMware ESXi versions such as VMware ESXi 4.1, VMware ESXi 5.0, VMware ESXi 5.1 and VMware ESXi 5.5. This post now shows you how you can enable SSH on the VMware ESXi 6.0 host. As in the other versions this …

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Hyper-V is eating VMware’s lunch

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:27:54 +0000

During the WPC 2014 Keynote Microsoft COO Kevin Turner showed the following slide and commented it: Hyper-V is eating VMware’s lunch Hyper-V has now 30,6% market share in x86 Server Virtualization which means Microsoft won 4.6% since the release of Windows Server 2012. VMware is now at 46.4% market share which means they lost 5.1% market …

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Enable SSH on VMware ESXi 5.5

Thomas Maurer — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:00:14 +0000

I already wrote how you can enable SSH on a VMware ESXi 5.1, VMware ESXi 5.0 and VMware ESXi 4.1. This little guide shows you how you can enable on a VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 box. As before for the other version it is pretty easy. This allows you to remote troubleshoot your VMware ESXi host …

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TechNet Switzerland Event: From VMware to Hyper-V

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:41:46 +0000

On Tuesday, December 03 I will present together with Markus Erlacher, former Microsoft Switzerland TSP and now Managing Director at itnetx gmbh, on a free Microsoft Switzerland TechNet event. The topic this time will be why and how you migrate from VMware to a Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center environment. The event will cover an …

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Speaking at E2EVC 2013 Rome

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:50:09 +0000

E2EVC Virtualization Conference is a non-commercial, virtualization community Event. The main goal is to bring the best virtualization experts together to exchange knowledge and to establish new connections. E2EVC is a weekend crammed with presentations, Master Classes and discussions delivered by both virtualisation vendors product teams and independent experts. This is not just a Microsoft only …

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System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager support for VMware vSphere ESX Hosts

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:19:33 +0000

As System Center 2012 SP1 was released, it officially supported VMware vSphere 4.1 and 5.1, there was no support for vSphere 5.0 in SCVMM 2012 SP1. Now since a lot of customer have requested this feature, Microsoft added VMware vSphere 5.0 to the supported list of vSphere versions. For those who didn’t know that, to manage …

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Convert VMware vSphere Virtual Machines to Microsoft Hyper-V

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:40:18 +0000

On October 1st Microsoft released their Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator which includes Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator and the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Plug-in for VMware vSphere Client. This solution accelerator kit enables to covert Virtual Machines from VMware vSphere to Microsoft Hyper-V. I also tested the release candidate of Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator …

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Quick: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V vs VMware vSphere 5.1

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:42:45 +0000

Some months ago I wrote a lot of post about Hyper-V vs VMware vSphere. At this time I compared Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Release Candidate with VMware vSphere 5.0. Since then a lot has changed Microsoft released the final version of Windows Server 2012 and VMware showed vSphere 5.1. I don’t have time to update …

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