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    What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?

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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender
      last edited by Dashrender

      I'm down to three physical servers
      7/10 are windows.

      yep, mostly Windows.

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      • Minion QueenM
        Minion Queen
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        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% Windows

        In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

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        • NerdyDadN
          NerdyDad @Dashrender
          last edited by

          @Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

          VM1 - Windows 2012 R2 AD/file/print

          Just 1 AD server?

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @NerdyDad
            last edited by Dashrender

            @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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            • KellyK
              Kelly
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              Probably 5-10% are Windows.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @Minion Queen
                last edited by

                @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% Windows

                In 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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                • NerdyDadN
                  NerdyDad @Dashrender
                  last edited by

                  @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% Windows

                  In 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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                  • art_of_shredA
                    art_of_shred @Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    @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% Windows

                    In 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.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • momurdaM
                          momurda
                          last edited by

                          50% MS here, almost exactly. Rest are various linux servers.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
                            last edited by

                            @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% Windows

                            In 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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                            • brianlittlejohnB
                              brianlittlejohn
                              last edited by brianlittlejohn

                              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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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                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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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
                                  last edited by

                                  @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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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                    last edited by

                                    @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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                                    • Minion QueenM
                                      Minion Queen
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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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                                      • travisdh1T
                                        travisdh1
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                                        Zero. All Linux of some sort.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @travisdh1
                                          last edited by

                                          @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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                                          • JaredBuschJ
                                            JaredBusch
                                            last edited by

                                            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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