Hyper-V

Microsoft-HyperV versus VMWare Workstation

How does the performance of Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology stand up against some of the more entrenched companies? Well, a not-so-scientific study was done recently to answer this very question. While I admit that this isn’t a “study” the results are interesting.

Here is a link to the actual article.

Are you ready for Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtualization is popular these days for obvious reasons. Who wants to purchase more hardware then they need? Microsoft’s offering into the virtualization market is their Hyper-V solution. They have recently released the “Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V”. An article from Technet on the topic can be found here.

MS HyperV versus VMWare ESX

Microsoft’s HyperVisor software is new to the market. While it always takes time for a new product to have the bugs worked out it seems that Microsoft’s offering the visualization market is making waves even at this early stage. VMWare is surely aware of this and is going to working on proving that their product is superior in the coming months. Either way, competition in any market makes the product better for consumers.

Check out this article that discuss the various high level differences between VMWare and MS’s HyperVisor

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisewindows/archives/2008/06/hyperv_gets_att.html?source=NLC-ENTWINDOW&cgd=2008-06-18