First off stop reading this and go read Eric Gray’s post on the new Microsoft Virtualization Team post. He does a great job of pointing out the hypocrisy of marketing speak from the MS Virtual Team.

I am writing this blog post to address some specific annoyances in reasoning. While I have made a career in being a Microsoft guy (along with VMware, Cisco, EMC, and Nissan sportscars) I have some serious problems with the marketing pitch around Hyper-V.

So let me attack these head on. First off Chris Steffen states:

VMWare claims to support 4x more OSes that Hyper-V, but what does...

Multi Path challenges

In most SAN deployments it is considered best practice to have redundant connections configured between the storage and the server. This often includes redundant host based adaptors, Fibre Channel switches, and controller ports to the storage array. This results in having four or more separate paths connecting the server to the same storage target. These multiple paths offers protection against a single point of failure and permit load balancing.