[itdiscuss] Hyper-V vs. Virtual Box

[blloyd at buskercom.com]

The thing that makes me nervous about hyper-v is that it runs on top of
Windows.  What about all the "updates" and other Windows quirks?

 

I agree with running VMware server on Windows.  Very reliable system.

 

From: Jason Hand [mailto:jhand at handfamilysite.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 10:51 AM
To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Hyper-V vs. Virtual Box

 

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



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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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