VMware is, no doubt, the current server virtualization leader with 56% of the market share. But does that mean you should use vSphere as your desktop virtualization platform? If you look at the feature comparisons of both hypervisor platforms, you potentially could make a case for one or the other based up on what you think you may or may not need. But when you look at performance data when running a Windows client OS in a VM, the results have begun to swing in favor of Hyper-V.
There was a good article written on Infoworld, and in it they showed the performance numbers of a Windows 7 SP1 VM on two different version of Hyper-V and vSphere. The results of this test show just how far Hyper-V has come since the 2008 R2 version and how far ahead it has progressed with regards to vSphere.
If you think about the logic behind this, its quite simple to understand. The company that will be the best at virtualizing an OS is the company that actually produced the OS. Even if you are not looking at converting all of your virtualization workloads to Hyper-V, you need to give it a very serious consideration with regards to any desktop virtualization workloads you may be planning.
There was a good article written on Infoworld, and in it they showed the performance numbers of a Windows 7 SP1 VM on two different version of Hyper-V and vSphere. The results of this test show just how far Hyper-V has come since the 2008 R2 version and how far ahead it has progressed with regards to vSphere.
If you think about the logic behind this, its quite simple to understand. The company that will be the best at virtualizing an OS is the company that actually produced the OS. Even if you are not looking at converting all of your virtualization workloads to Hyper-V, you need to give it a very serious consideration with regards to any desktop virtualization workloads you may be planning.
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