stimms's questions

I have about a dozen windows service which I need to deploy fairly frequently to a fairly large collection of nodes. I was looking at Octopus Deploy which seemed pretty good but I was wondering what other options there might be. I really need to be able to keep track of what versions of the software are deployed where and when so I'm looking for something a bit more than just powershelling in and deploying. I've looked at Deploying C# Windows Service in multiple servers but I would eat an entire pint of Ben and Jerry's before I use an MSI.

I also have a bunch of web sites which it would be really good if I could roll them out with the same solution.

We're having a discussion here about Hyper-V and vmware. Am I right in thinking that ESX and Hyper-V are competing technologies and it is not possible or desirable to run hyper-v on a box virtualized on ESX? Is this because the machines vmware emulates do not have virtualized implementations of the process virtualization support?

I'm specking out a set of servers to handle a sharepoint 2007 install and a number of ASP.net applications. I was wondering if there were any issues running additional websites on a machine or cluster which is running the web front end portion of sharepoint.