If you haven't had a chance to read my Hyper-V vs. VMware debate with Jason Perlow in the Great Debate series, please do so before reading this post-mortem assessment and review. Now that you've had a ...

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 ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

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 ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

Microsoft has been hammering away at VMware with the message that Hyper-V gives customers much bigger bang for their buck, and the software giant has come up with creative promotions to get companies ...

Ten years ago the argument over virtualization would have been a short one because VMware was the only game in town, but that early dominance is now being significantly challenged by Microsoft, Citrix ...

In Total Cost Comparison: VMware vSphere vs. Microsoft Hyper-V, learn why the total cost of ownership (TCO) is the ultimate measure to compare IT infrastructure platforms. TCO incorporates the ...

More than 1,200 undocumented VMware VMX parameters have been discovered, some showing signs of being Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen hypervisor-aware Could VMware be gearing up to manage hypervisors other ...