Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...

Storage Both Hyper-V and VMware require you to have sufficient storage for creating VMs. VMware is far more restrictive than Hyper-V. In Hyper-V, you can place a virtual hard drive (VHD) file onto ...

Hyper-V supports a host of high-availability and “resiliency” features, such as off-site replication of servers. And it does many of those things as well or better than offerings from VMware ...

Goldstein says Hyper-V, which comes lock, stock and barrel as part of Microsoft Server 2008, simply provides more bang for the IT buck than VMware. He says it's a more cost effective solution for ...

Looking at making the jump over to Hyper-V to avoid dropping 6 kilobucks for vmware essentials plus just to allow me to do shared nothing live migrations and manage all of my hosts from a single ...

Microsoft has been hammering away at VMware with the message that Hyper-V gives customers much bigger bang for their buck, and the software giant has come up with creative promotions to get ...

The much-improved Hyper-V R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 combo smooths the bumps to Windows server virtualization Topics Spotlight: Advancing IT Leadership ...

Microsoft is shipping Hyper-V, which offers virtualization on the cheap, but VMware might still be the best option. With the release Thursday of Hyper-V as a free download to Windows Server 2008 ...

VMWare’s ESX differs from Hyper-V and Xen in that it currently uses pure software based virtualization, so it doesn’t need the VT or Pacifica extensions. However, it has a much tighter ...

Learn More. With its June 26 release of Hyper-V, Microsoft presented x86 server virtualization leader VMware with what may prove its toughest challenge to date. That’s because while Hyper-V ...

First released last year, Hyper-V proved a less-than-compelling offering compared to virtualization platforms from VMware, Virtual Iron (now Oracle), Citrix, and other rivals. Hyper-V Release 2 ...