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20Oct/090

Virtualization : What to choose? : VMware or Microsoft’s HyperV or Citrix’s Xen

Virtualization is the concept of extracting a system's resource.A virtual machine  is a software implementation of a PC that shares the same hardware as the parent computer but acts as a different machine.VMware being the early leader of the concept has gained a decent amount of the market's share.Microsoft's HyperV and Citrix's Xen came into the concept later but has better hopes.the tables shows up the pro's on con's of each of them.Choose the one that suits ur needs.

 

Microsoft’s HyperV

VMware

Citrix’s Xen
Supported Operating System Windows & SUSE Linux Windows, Mac, Linux & others Windows, Linux
Management Tools System center VM manager vCenter Server, vMotion, vCenter Lab Manager, vCenter Converter Infrastructure Included only in paid version
Free hypervisor HyperV Server ESXi Xen Server Express
Paid hypervisor --- ESX Xen Server Enterprise, Platinum
Advantage  

  • Its included as a part of Windows Server 2008
  • Cost effective licensing of guest Windows VMs

 

  

  • Widest selection of pre-built appliances
  • Widest selection of guest OS support

 

  

  • Open Source solution
  • Essentials also manages HyperV
  • 32 CPU support
  • P2V included in overall solution
Disadvantage Limited management tools Confusing array of pricing and configuration options No pre-built appliances
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