[itdiscuss] Hyper-V vs. Virtual Box

Fri Feb 24 14:34:18 EST 2012

I currently have over 30 Hyper-V servers deployed in-house and for customers with an average of 10 VMs each, some have over 25 guests.  We have had one server crash, and that was because the RAID controller died and corrupted the RAID set.  We have had at least a dozen Hyper-V servers go all the way through a 3 year lifecycle without ever having a single issue.  I am not going to jump in and say Hyper-V is better than VMWare, Virtual Box, Virtual Iron, etc, but I'm certainly going to defend Hyper-V because it has been absolutely rock-solid.  I never hesitate to quote it for a customer, and every time we sell something our company's reputation is on the line.  If you put it on good hardware and configure it right (not hard, just follow best practices) Hyper-V is laser fast and completely reliable.

Kevin Brunson
Chief Technology Officer
Higher Ground Technologies
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From: blloyd at buskercom.com [mailto:blloyd at buskercom.com]
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Yea, but putting something critical on a Windows machine....really?

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From: Jason Hand [mailto:jhand at handfamilysite.com]<mailto:[mailto:jhand at handfamilysite.com]>
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Updates get applied I only when you want and what you want.

Esx has updates too.  2008 R2 is rock solid.
On Feb 24, 2012 11:08 AM, <blloyd at buskercom.com<mailto:blloyd at buskercom.com>> wrote:
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.

Bill Lloyd
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From: Jason Hand [mailto:jhand at handfamilysite.com<mailto:jhand at handfamilysite.com>]
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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<mailto: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.

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From: J.R. Pitts [mailto:jrp at wjponline.com<mailto:jrp at wjponline.com>]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 5:17 PM
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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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