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MICROSOFT HYPER-V'S ADVANTAGES OVER VMWARE

Because many workloads already run on Windows, organizations are familiar with the Microsoft platform, making it easier to adopt and deploy Microsoft virtualization technology compared with VMware..

Additional Benefits

Additionally, Hyper-V:
  • Costs less than comparable versions of VMware
  • Offers features such as Live Migration at no additional charge
  • Does not require higher end software SKU purchases for advanced features
Microsoft’s virtualization technology also offers core features that VMware does not. Below is a feature-by-feature comparison of the two technologies. All in all Microsoft offers more extensive solutions at a lower cost than VMware.

  VMware vSphere 4 Microsoft WS08Hyper-V Re/SMSE
Physical and virtual management no yes
SMSE
VMware and Microsoft management no yes
SMSE
In-guest monitoring no yes
End-to-end OS monitoring no yes
SMSE OpsMgr
Application/service monitoring no yes
SMSE, PRO
Host/virtual machine level optimization yes
DRS
yes
SMSE, PRO
Centralized HV management yes
Virtual Center
yes
SMSE, VMM
Guest OS patching/management yes yes
SMSE, SCCM
Virtual machine high availability/failover yes
Virtual Center
yes
WS08 Clustering+VMM
Virtual machine migration yes
vMotion
yes
Live Migration
Storage virtual machine migration yes yes

WS08 = Windows Server 2008
SCCM = System Center Configuration Manager
PRO = Performance and Resource Optimization
VMM = Virtual Machine Mgr

 
 
 
 
 
 

Microsoft Hyper-V or Viridian refers to the hypervisor-based virtualization system meant for x86-64 systems. Hyper-V is available in free stand-alone variant as well as an installable variant.
Hyper-V serves to be one of the most widely used virtualization software. It does not utilize the host operating system in order to execute the virtual machines but uses a hyper visor to do the same; hyper visor stays between the physical hardware as well as the host operating system and virtualizes the physical hardware which executes numerous operating systems.
One important benefit of using Hyper-V is that the resources can be easily added to various virtual machines for data center hosting. It supports 64 bit systems and more than 4GB memory.
VMware serves as another leading provider of virtualization infrastructure. It is known for its reliability and performance. VMWare is developed on a robust platform and is known to provide powerful virtualization in case of cloud.

VMWare serves effectively in an environment which is virtualized; It is also known to give an excellent performance even when the overall load increases.
Data center hosting services providers offer choice between VMWare and Hyper-V. One has to evaluate his requirements profoundly to be able to make the right choice between the two.
At Go4Hosting you can easily detail your requirements and expectations to our experts- they are skilled in their domain and can recommend you the one catering best to your requirements. One can also opt for services like dedicated servers, VPS servers, data center colocation, etc. here.