What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?
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@NerdyDad said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
VM1 - Windows 2012 R2 AD/file/print
Just 1 AD server?
yep.. just one.
Licensing wise, it doesn't make sense to buy Windows for the other VM host to have a Windows AD box on it. Besides, if the one box goes down, the bulk of why I need AD goes down with it - the files.
DNS is running on another VM, so internet will stay working.
I could probably move a single license to the other host and setup a DC, but storage is at a premium on that server...... so.....
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Probably 5-10% are Windows.
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@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff
Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% WindowsIn most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.
either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers
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@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff
Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% WindowsIn most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.
either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers
So clients 1 & 4 have 100 servers?
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@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff
Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% WindowsIn most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.
either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers
Poor math skills...
She is counting VM's and not physical boxes alone, and her percentages are not accurate. On average, most of those clients have 1 or 2 Linux VM's and every other thing (server or workstation) in their environment is Windows. It's a very low percentage of Linux anything that we ever deal with. -
@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff
SAM has nothing against MS, just pro-business and if the Windows tax isn't justified, we don't use it. It's not at all related to being anti-Microsoft.
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We are down to one legacy Windows app server. All Linux beyond that. That one is slated to be moved, but hasn't been a priority in quite some time. It is a .NET app that has to be ported to .NET on Linux.
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50% MS here, almost exactly. Rest are various linux servers.
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@Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff
Client 1: 99% Windows
Client 2: 90% Windows
Client 3: 100% Windows
Client 4: 99% Windows
Client 5: 90% WindowsIn most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.
Funny, you assign me to customers that are 50% Windows. Why aren't those in the list? And it's not their PBXs on something other than Windows. I think you are skipping loads of the workloads just because they don't generate many outages.
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Just decommissioned 3 exchange servers today... 7 out of 11 are windows servers currently, but the number of linux servers is growing here.
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One thing a question like this doesn't really account for - is OS sprawl. i.e. one install per function. Of course there are huge advantages to this (i.e. you need to update/reboot the Unifi server, nothing else is affected), it quickly grows the number on 'nix boxes compared to Windows boxes because of the a fore mentioned Windows Tax.
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@brianlittlejohn said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Just decommissioned 3 exchange servers today... 7 out of 11 are windows servers currently, but the number of linux servers is growing here.
I deal with a lot of FreeBSD servers, too, it seems.
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@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
One thing a question like this doesn't really account for - is OS sprawl. i.e. one install per function. Of course there are huge advantages to this (i.e. you need to update/reboot the Unifi server, nothing else is affected), it quickly grows the number on 'nix boxes compared to Windows boxes because of the a fore mentioned Windows Tax.
Yeah, Linux and BSD naturally grow in the hosted world by leaps and bounds because of licensing and cloud hosting costs.
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/05/linux-virtualization-deployment-advantage/
Seven years old now!
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We have one client that has FreeBSD, and I have no idea what else there is in their environment since this is the only thing we have physically worked on for them. You do get brought in to work on a small project here and there for liniux stuff but again we know the one thing in their environment for the project and not the full thing. So I can't speak to what their environments are since we have no idea.
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Zero. All Linux of some sort.
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@travisdh1 said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Zero. All Linux of some sort.
Can't wait till we are there. Just have that one pesky old server to sort out.
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Does running Hyper-V server count? I mean it is Microsoft.
Client A:
- Hyper Server 2012 R2 x 2
- Server 2012 R2 Standard VM x2
- CentOS 7 VM x3
So either 57.14% (4 of 7) or 40.0% (2/5) depending on if the Hypervisor counts.
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@JaredBusch said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Does running Hyper-V server count? I mean it is Microsoft.
Client A:
- Hyper Server 2012 R2 x 2
- Server 2012 R2 Standard VM x2
- CentOS 7 VM x3
So either 57.14% (4 of 7) or 40.0% (2/5) depending on if the Hypervisor counts.
I don't think that the hypervisor counts, or else VMware would count against the MS count, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
@JaredBusch said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:
Does running Hyper-V server count? I mean it is Microsoft.
Client A:
- Hyper Server 2012 R2 x 2
- Server 2012 R2 Standard VM x2
- CentOS 7 VM x3
So either 57.14% (4 of 7) or 40.0% (2/5) depending on if the Hypervisor counts.
I don't think that the hypervisor counts, or else VMware would count against the MS count, too.
You still have to patch it and do more management then you would with VMware
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Linux = 28.75%
Windows = 71.25%Physical Linux: 13
Physical Windows: 14Virtual Linux: 10
Virtual Windows: 43 (because of DataCenter licensing)
