Right, I sys admin a small to med size company.
We have multiple sites but a mission critical app that requires LAN access (SQL), so for years we've run MS hyper-v RDPs as well as running the (Windoze) domain on hyper-v.
But a recent change and appalling performance saw some testing reveal actual hardware desktops (via RDP) offer considerably better performance, even with comparable spec VMs (in hyper-v).
Then a (possible oversight on my part) saw the SQL (express...sorry) server moved from an old 3.6ghz 4 core host to a new 2.4 80 core host saw further performance drops, no doubt the SQL express limitations being the factor here.
So, as I have previous ESX experience (this is me ) I chucked firstly an rdp client "desktop" on esx (solved the first performance issue totally) then the sql server on it too which solved everything.
Now I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, we're running production apps on esxi "free", SQL on an old server and things have never run better.
Advice is welcome! Do I beg my director for some licence money and do it properly?
