So long as in "a few hours"?

Massimo.

It was "just" released as RTM, i wouldnt want Vmware "supporting" a RC build anyway....

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Hello,

VMware has never really 'supported' non-released products. I imagine that once Windows 7 is 'officially' released that support will be announced.

Because it is a beta product. Support is one thing, no vendor really supports their products on/within BETA operating systems unless the BETA is from the vendor itself.

I imagine Windows 7 is running within a lab somewhere, just do not expect OFFICIAL support until it is actually released. RC, RTM, etc is NOT an official release.

Lastly, most systems are backwards compatible, as in they work with older products. But no product is forwards compatible, I.e works with NEWER products unreleased, unannounced, unknown when the system was released. This is the case with ESX 3.x systems. You are asking for an older product to support something that was NOT available at the time the older product was released. Hopefully once Windows 7 is actually released, an update will be made to ESX.

You do note there is 'experimental' support for Windows 7 but that is because Windows 7 is not 'released' yet.

This could also be an announcement that is waiting for VMworld 2009


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Have fun on Hyper-V

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Good luck on your Hyper V implementation as well and will give us feedback how it goes with reliability, scalability and performance and security wise and if you look deeper into their solution, what they did for VMotion and Storage VMotion? Don't they required to be downtime with Quick Migration and claimed Live Migration will do live but its slated for 2010 and why can you wait? Also, you're aware of their Cluster Shared Volume (CVS) that requires every virtual machine to have their own LUN? What's their scalable numbers you can run within a host? I'm sure MS and Citrix will catch up in the future and they work really hard and want to lure customers that are not "virtualization" aware to cheaper and free price, but if you look at ESXi free edition too and still works solid. Remember, there is no such free lunch out in the jungle....everyone playing catchup and competitive marketing strategies to regain market shares, but if you have proven and trusted hypervisors implemented to 100% of all fortune 100 and 90% fortune 500 customers with 130,000+ customers worldwide what are you seeing? Why large enterprise and financial critical business using VMware as their #1 data center infrastructure and can you point me to Hyper V enterprise customers and what are the adaptation ratio comparing to VMware!

We're here to help those who need technical questions and concerns, we're not here to discuss marketing and defend anything but for IT consultants perspective, it would be true to ourselves that we admit what's good and bad implement it correctly with pride. Again, if you feel Hyper_V is better plus welcome and good luck and love to hear back. Remember Hyper_V doesn't support anything for Linux, Netware, Solaris, other versions of windows OS so its very limited with Solaris though.

In order to get close to the point where VMware vServices (DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, VCB, Data Recovery, FT, VUM.....etc...) you would have to deploy SCOM 2007, SCVVM, SCCM, and SCDPM servers seperately and paid for it.

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I am using VMWare ESX 4.0, build: 162856, and VSphere client 4.0, build: 164009.

Win 7 can intall in ESX 4.0. But it won't work after adding into domain. It usuall hang up at Win7 logining screen.

Can anybody tell my why? Thanks a lot!

Hello,

Again we are talking backwards vs. fowards compatibility. The second does not work. It has never worked. People are running virtualized Windows 7 but its not 100%. But I doubt VMware will 'support' Windows 7 within 2 weeks. Quite frankly I would not use Windows 7 until every thing within the enterprise has been tested with a 'released' version of the product and even in a small environment that would take over 2 weeks. However, also note that RTM editions are not general availability editions either.

I would say this is something they will announce around VMworld, maybe before. But do not doubt for a minute that Windows 7 will not be supported shortly. Shortly is most likely more than 2 weeks..... Good luck with Hyper-V.


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