[itdiscuss] Hyper-V vs. Virtual Box

[Jason Hand]

Not true if running Windows vm's on Windows 2008 r2 hyper-v.

When running Windows vm's on esxi  you lose some performance due to
emulation from Linux. That isn't lost in hyper-v. Plus, things like driver
updates and general ease of configuration are much easier in hyper-v.

Most studies today show that you can run Windows vm's on full blown 2008 r2
with negligible performance hit over core. Hyper-v allows for each vm to
access the bus directly.

If you guys haven't seen hyper-v in action especially using the new virtual
machine manager in system center then take a look. It is a game changer.

I would just use vmware server for what you are taking about personally.
Very simple and works well on top of Windows.
On Feb 24, 2012 8:57 AM, "Huff, Brandon" <BrandonH at perimeter.org> wrote:

> If I were you, I would find a way to run Vmware's ESXi as your
> foundational OS and not run VM's inside of Windows.  You'll find your
> experience and performance with virtual machines to be far greater with
> ESXi.
>
> --
> Brandon Huff
> IT Director
> Perimeter Church
> 678.405.2236 | brandonh at perimeter.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.R. Pitts [mailto:jrp at wjponline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 5:17 PM
> To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
> Subject: [itdiscuss] Hyper-V vs. Virtual Box
>
> Haven't really done much with virtualization, due to a general lack of
> need.
>
> But I'm about to cover our campus with Unifi's, and was going to put the
> control app in a VM.
>
> I'm going to upgrade a 3 year old (or so) 2003 server to 2008R2 to hold it.
>
> My question is, if I'm only going to run 1, maybe 2 virtual desktops, is
> there a big reason to run Hyper-V, or should Virtual Box be fine?
>
> Thanks,
>
> J.R.
>
>
>
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