IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...

Since the release of Windows Server 2012 R2, which included the third generation of Hyper-V, the Microsoft hypervisor reached near parity with the vSphere virtualization platform from VMware Inc.

Your skills working with Microsoft Hyper-V won't translate over to just any hypervisor. So, here's what you'll need to know to get up to speed with VMware's ESXi 4. Even though Hyper-V has always been ...

When the dust settled in the lab after two long months of testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX in the areas of performance, compatibility, management, and security, it all boiled down to two ...

Microsoft and VMware are in pitched battle in the private cloud space. Both are worthwhile contenders, so how do you pick the right one for your project? There's a lot to like in both Windows Server ...

It's been about 2.5 years since I put VMware in at my last job which I recently left but now facing another virualization project I thought I would source hopefully unbiased views on a comparison of ...

Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...

We are mostly a vmWare ESXi shop with a handful of Hyper-V servers at our smaller remote sites. I have to create 4 Server 2008R2 VM's that will run on Hyper-V hosts. To do this, I basically have two ...

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built ...

It was all the buzz this past week: EMC VMware has changed its licensing with vSphere 5 from a model that is based on processor cores and physical memory to a model that charges based upon both a ...