Written by: 3/26/2012
Both VMWare ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V Servers are great technologies to virtualize your servers and desktop computers. Under the hood, they are both using the same efficient second generation hypervisor technology. Lately, which product is superior for the small business is a subject of controversial debate. Your choice on which product to use has far reaching impact on your network infrastructure.
Our view is that Hyper-V is more appropriate for the small business market running mostly Microsoft Windows and Linux OS’s; on the other hand,VMWare is better for large datacentres in a heterogeneous OS environment that are not supported by Hyper-V. Our view happens to be supported by market studies in a recent Network World article:
[Hyper-V’s] flurry of improvements is in addition to progress Hyper-V has been making against ESX in licenses issued. Hyper-V grew 62% last year compared to ESX's 21% growth and Citrix's 25%, according to IDC. Separately, Gartner projects that by next year Hyper-V will account for 27% of the market, up from 11% two years ago. Within that projected 27%, Gartner says Microsoft will have captured 85% of all businesses with less than 1,000 employees that use virtual servers. The virtual server market is growing rapidly and the dominance of the various players is shifting, so VMware's early lead is being chipped away, leaving customers with a lot to ponder, Gartner says, …
[Hyper-V’s] flurry of improvements is in addition to progress Hyper-V has been making against ESX in licenses issued. Hyper-V grew 62% last year compared to ESX's 21% growth and Citrix's 25%, according to IDC. Separately, Gartner projects that by next year Hyper-V will account for 27% of the market, up from 11% two years ago. Within that projected 27%, Gartner says Microsoft will have captured 85% of all businesses with less than 1,000 employees that use virtual servers.
The virtual server market is growing rapidly and the dominance of the various players is shifting, so VMware's early lead is being chipped away, leaving customers with a lot to ponder, Gartner says, …
ECL had been a big proponent of virtualization for years. ECL supported both VMWare and Microsoft virtualization technologies since the introduction of server virtualization more than 10 years ago. Two years ago, ECL dropped all new sales of VMWare to the small business market and had converted existing VMWare clients to use the Hyper-V stack of technologies. Here are a few reasons why we did it:
ECL had worked with both VMware and Hyper-V for years. VMWare has a place in the datacentre market where our clients have a lot of technical resources to support a large number of different guest operating systems. On the other hand, we feel that it is wiser for small businesses to invest in Hyper-V over VMWare in the long run. We are of the opinion that Hyper-V has greater potential for small businesses in the future. As it is, today, Hyper-V is already a simpler, faster, more reliable, and more versatile alternative to VMWare for small businesses with fewer than 1000 users. So we suggest that there is little point investing further in VMWare unless you have special needs that are not met by Hyper-V.
If you would like to see a demo or comparison between the 2 technologies, please call us and we can demonstrate physically how they are different.
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