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Ben Rubenstein
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 What hypervisor do you use and why?
Citrix XenServer, Hyper-V, VMware
Do you use VMware, Hyper-V, or another hypervisor (e.g. Citrix XenServer)? What factors are most important to you when choosing one over the other (or multiple)?

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ASKED: November 2, 2011  5:13 PM
UPDATED: June 19, 2012  3:32 PM
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vmware and citrix are both great softwares however i would use the OVM, oracle virtual machine it can do all what a man need in a virtual setup(Vmotion, HA, DR, ect..) its solid its mature and its free.... VMware (HA, Fault Tolerance, Virtualization Security Proucts, vCenter, Request Manager and Orchestrator Workflow management)
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I use what ever my clients are using, but I prefer VMware. I feel that it’s a thinner host OS, and VMware has been ahead of Microsoft for years in the feature set list. Microsoft will be a lot closer when they release Hyper-V v3 as a part of Windows 8, but that’s a long time coming.

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I made a very basic comparison that may be useful to you:

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