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Tai Nguyen
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Feb 14, 2008 12:35 AM

VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V

Any thoughts on the upcoming release of Microsoft Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008? VMware already has such strong adoption of it's hypervisor in the marketplace.

pulled this quote from ServerWatch...

"Microsoft's hypervisor-based virtualization technology will hit the streets in its final version some time this summer. Hyper-V, formerly known as Viridian, will be rolled into the Data Center and Enterprise Editions of Windows Server 2008...What is significant about Microsoft's move is that although hypervisor technology makes hardware-assisted virtualization extremely efficient and servers virtualized in this way suffer very little performance penalty, the market is relatively immature. VMware currently has the largest market share by far, but the percentage of servers actually virtualized remains small."
Tags: esx, vmware, server, hyper-v, microsoft, windows, hypervisor
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Bren Kline
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1. Feb 13, 2008 11:38 PM in response to: Tai Nguyen
Re: VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V

Is anyone out there part of the beta program? I've heard it's very basic and just does Microsoft OS's right now with very limitted devices. Is the beta still open ?

Bren

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alltmf
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2. Feb 19, 2008 1:38 PM in response to: Tai Nguyen
Re: VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V

The product still available to download, go to microsoft site, windows 2008 and download the version with Hyper-V.

To make the install you must have a 64 bits processor and Intel-V or AMD-V.

When you make the install use english settings everywhere because if you don t Hyper-V will not start, Obviously if you want to make vmotion equivalent, forget about it, this option is delivered inside MS SCVMM and you still have to stop the VM.
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David Waldron
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Feb 20, 2008
3. Feb 20, 2008 7:51 AM in response to: Tai Nguyen
Re: VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V
Please note, this is NOT a Microsoft Bash!

90% of 10 installations is still only 9 installations.

The Microsoft Hyper-V will allow for paravirtualization of Windows guests and traditional virtualization of Linux and Unix guests. Guests will also require an agent installed if they aren't paravirtualized (and may even if they are paravirtualized).

Hyper-V cannot be separated from what is basically a full install of 2008 (with all of its resource overhead), and would require you to have a minimum of 1 Windows server per virtualization host, even if you are ONLY virtualizing Linux or Unix.

Again, this isn't a Microsoft bash, I have just under 500 VMs in our ESX environment and 98.2439694% of them are Windows. I do, however, have a problem with their virtualization model that requires their incredibly bloated, expensive OS as the base.

--Dave
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vmguru007
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Feb 27, 2008
4. Feb 27, 2008 12:59 PM in response to: David Waldron
Re: VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V

Hi,

Our team at ITcomparison.com have been requested to evaluate the two products many times for the past month. As a result we have posted our initial comparison between the two products at ITComparison.com MS Hyper-V vs VMware VI3


Further more we have allowed people to share their opinion and request further faces to be compared at our MS Hyper-V vs VMware VI3 forum to enhance our comparison.


Hope it will be helpfull for every one,


VMguru007

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Bren Kline
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5. Feb 28, 2008 6:00 AM in response to: vmguru007
Re: VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V

This was a very nice analysis... I learned a few things here.

Thanks


Bren

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vmguru007
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Feb 27, 2008
6. Feb 29, 2008 12:28 AM in response to: Bren Kline
Re: VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V

Hi Bren,

Thanks for your comment. I hope upcoming comments about the comparison will be posted at ITComparison.com MS Hyper-V vs VMware VI3 Forum which is the forum related to the comparison, as well posting it in here. We hope comments even start being of more interactive where it points to missing features in the comparison. Even if you point flaws in the comparison as the product still a beta and changes are happen on daily bassis. Your comment will help us to keep up.

Thanks for every one,

Vmguru007

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Axis
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Feb 14, 2008
7. Mar 18, 2008 4:30 PM in response to: Tai Nguyen
Re: VMware's Hypervisor (ESX Server) vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V

View this post.

http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/message/1639#1639

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