IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity.

Hyper-V’s dynamic memory, introduced in Server 2008 R2, is conceptually similar to VMware’s “overprovisioning.” The two work a bit differently, however.

This isn't VMware's first rodeo, as we say in Texas, and by the time any companies might begin to embrace Hyper-V, VMware will have produced another major version or two, while Microsoft will ...

More than 1,200 undocumented VMware VMX parameters have been discovered, some showing signs of being Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen hypervisor-aware ...

Microsoft is shipping Hyper-V, which offers virtualization on the cheap, but VMware might still be the best option. With the release Thursday of Hyper-V as a free download to Windows Server 2008 ...

Now Microsoft's coming in and saying we'll pay you to show Hyper-V instead of VMware," added the source. So far, Microsoft's efforts are paying off in terms of getting customers' eyeballs on Hyper-V.

VMware has been downplaying other virtualization platforms like Hyper-V and Xen for years now, never really giving them credence or acknowledging them as any significant threat. But actions often ...

Looking at making the jump over to Hyper-V to avoid dropping 6 kilobucks for vmware essentials plus just to allow me to do shared nothing live migrations and manage all of my hosts from a single ...

As part of the RDP, Garcia had his team investigate shifting some or all of ABM’s virtualized workloads from VMware to Hyper-V 3.0. [Related: ...

At the very least, the entrance of Microsoft and Hyper-V into a market in which Xen-based offerings are already giving VMware a run for its money means that the days of VMware as the no-brainer ...

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