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 SMSE VMware and Microsoft management SMSE In-guest monitoring End-to-end OS monitoring SMSE OpsMgr Application/service monitoring SMSE, PRO Host/virtual machine level optimization DRS SMSE, PRO Centralized HV management Virtual Center SMSE, VMM Guest OS patching/management SMSE, SCCM Virtual machine high availability/failover Virtual Center WS08 Clustering+VMM Virtual machine migration vMotion Live Migration Storage virtual machine migration

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