SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension vs. Windows Server Failover Clustering

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

4 Reviews and Ratings

Windows Server Failover Clustering

39 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension	Score9 out of 10	N/A	SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension is a high availability cluster availabe from German company SUSE, for users of its Linux Enterprise Server solution.	N/A
Windows Server Failover Clustering	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) is a group of independent servers that work together to increase application and service availability.	N/A

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SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

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SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension	Windows Server Failover Clustering
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	SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension	Windows Server Failover Clustering
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	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
	No answers on this topic	100% Delivers good value for the price 7 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	No answers on this topic	100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 5 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension	Windows Server Failover Clustering
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension	Windows Server Failover Clustering
Likelihood to Recommend	SUSE No answers on this topic	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Pros	SUSE No answers on this topic	Microsoft Live Migration of VMs between hosts. If you have sufficient network bandwidth, it is fast and I never had a failed live migration break the VM or kill it. Worst case is the live migration will fail (not enough RAM for example) but the VM always stayed up. Windows Server Failover Clustering enables Scaleout Storage, which is probably the coolest feature Microsoft has to offer at this moment. It gives you Active-Active SMB file shares which can now be used by most Microsoft Services like MS SQL, Hyper-V, etc. and clients if Windows 8+ Cluster Validation is really complete and easy to understand. The validation gives you comprehensive error messages that help to diagnose and fix rapidly to get your Failover Cluster running in no time. Incentivized Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland It Systems Administrator Read full review
Cons	SUSE No answers on this topic	Microsoft The setup of the Windows Server Failover Clustering is complex, requiring different networks and multiple network cards. Better integration between the Windows Failover clustering and Hyper-V. Unlike VMWare you have to make changes to two places instead of just one panel. I wish there was a web portal to manage the cluster. Instead you have to remote desktop into the VIP address and go to the Cluster manager. Incentivized Edwin Labirua Senior Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
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Return on Investment	SUSE No answers on this topic	Microsoft Failover Cluster gives us the power to do updates or hardware upgrade / change without having to create an outage. Which permit us not to work night shifts. By creating one cluster with all Hyper-V servers, it enabled us to move VMs via live migration between host to balance RAM usage which was time consuming and took a lot of time over network before. It created some problems that caused us to have to investigate quite some time before finding the cause. We encountered dll locking that caused the Failover Cluster to force-restart a host. Logs are really not the strong point of Failover Cluster Manager, and even Microsoft Support wasn't able to help much. We had to find the problem ourself. Incentivized Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland It Systems Administrator Read full review
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