NSX is a registered trademark?
Always wanted a Honda NSX, would be funny if someone a VMWare has dropped one
http://www.trademarkdirect.co.uk/registry/ctm/nsx-003306636
VMware's NSX network virtualisation software has been added to the company's price list, a small-but-important milestone that sees the product available to resellers for the first time. Virtzilla announced NSX last August and released it in October of the same year, but until now has only sold it direct to customers. VMware …
Hyper-V is free hummm next you will tell us that OpenStack is free.........! I'm sure you have to buy a massive MS EA full of shelfware to get that for free and yes we are talking about the version that is actually useful for a Enterprise <:@)
Do you know how I can prove to you that MS don't have a SDN stack, because Cisco don't see them as a threat and oh lets look and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for data centre networking..
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1TDGZJW&ct=140423&st=sb
Oh, I see VMware and I don't see MS clearly Gartner are wrong ;)
"I'm sure you have to buy a massive MS EA full of shelfware to get that for free and yes we are talking about the version that is actually useful for a Enterprise"
Wrong. The complete fully featured Hyper-V Server product is totally free:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dn205299.aspx
you have to by the management tools to make it useful and you have to by the support to make it useful and you have to support it! So to an enterprise isn't free, so Hyper-V isn't free.
Really that statement is just a lot of marketecture and has no refection of the the true TCO, no grown up right minded person thinks that anything worth having is free.... and more so no enterprise believes that!
"you have to by the management tools to make it useful"
No you don't - its fully locally and remotely manageable by Powershell and you can access ALL capabilities without paying anything - or use any other solution you want such as OpenStack, etc.
"and you have to by the support to make it useful"
Most companies will already be paying for Microsoft support. As Hyper-V server is totally free, there is no additional cost for maintenance. There are free support forums, etc too.
"and you have to support it!""
Quite - and with Hyper-V that's generally far simpler and with a lower TCO than with say vSphere.
Hyper-V is free hummm next you will tell us that OpenStack is free.........! I'm sure you have to buy a massive MS EA full of shelfware to get that for free and yes we are talking about the version that is actually useful for a Enterprise <:@)
Do you know how I can prove to you that MS don't have a SDN stack because Cisco don't see them as a threat and oh lets look and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for data centre networking..
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1TDGZJW&ct=140423&st=sb
Oh, I see VMware and I don't see MS clearly Gartner are wrong ;)
"Oh, I see VMware and I don't see MS clearly Gartner are wrong"
Clearly you are not senior enough to actually have a Gartner account yourself or you would appreciate that companies have to PAY to be in the list...Microsoft have obviously chosen not to as datacentre networking is not a core business.
LOL - we know how little you know about Hyper-V from your laughable 'training' where you didn't even understand the difference between Hyper-V Server and Hyper-V running under Windows Server.
Hyper-V SDN does everything that most people need in the SDN space (and is fully extensible if you need more - for instance there are various Open vSwitch options are available). Not to mention that it's been in production use for over 2 years now.
The big differences are that Hyper-V Server SDN is FREE and is STANDARDS BASED (It will run over your current network infrastructure)
NSX COSTS LOTS, and is PROPRIETARY - You have to run specific hardware!
So clearly your understanding of SDN is as flawed as your belief in my understanding of Hyper.
SDN is about reaching feature parity with what available from a physical network, ergo its about putting the same intelligence available in the physical network in software. So, with Hyper-v you are have to still invest in the same old 3 tier physical network which is free right? Again TCO!
Proprietary I guess these all are and all support nsx:
Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Arista Networks, Cumulus Networks, Brocade, palo alto networks, Juniper and Cisco.
"Clearly you are not senior enough to actually have a Gartner account yourself or you would appreciate that companies have to PAY to be in the list...Microsoft have obviously chosen not to as datacentre networking is not a core business."
I'm sorry but, if MS had half a chance of being in there they would! It would suit the tick box architecture they currently market.
Antivirus is far from the core of MS business but, they bothered there because they could ;) well there a challenger anyway....
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1PCNX43&ct=140109&st=sb
"Antivirus is far from the core of MS business"
Wrong. Firstly Forefront is now included as part of SCCM - which has millions of deployed seats - and almost every enterprise uses. Secondly Microsoft make lots selling Forefront for Exchange, SharePoint, OCS, Exchange cloud, etc...
Certainly a lot more relevant than Microsoft integrated SDN support is worth shelling out bundles for in a Magic Quadrant for 'Datacentre Networking' that they would likely only be slightly above VMWare (who are down the bottom) in.
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