VMware vs. Hyper-V Decision Aid Flowchart
There are many, many choices available when it comes to virtualization technologies. Even within server virtualization, there are many options. Once the choices have been narrowed, it is still a chore to wade through the options and limitations to determine the best fit for a given datacenter environment.
Some frequent decision points include:
- Is your environment large enough to bother virtualizing?
- If you are running VMware, should you consider Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2?
- Can Hyper-V run other guest operating systems?
- What should a Windows-only shop do?
To help ease the effort, we’ve created a decision flow chart involving the two contenders on the short list at most sites – VMware vSphere 4 and Microsoft Hyper-V R2. This chart starts from your current infrastructure and leads you through the important decisions, and to the conclusions you are likely to reach.
The chart is based on much more detailed information provided in our vSphere vs. Hyper-V whitepaper available for download in this blog posting as well as the associated talk available here.
Hopefully this chart will help you make your server virtualization decisions. Please get in touch if you would like to review the whitepaper or have us evaluate the virtualization options for your datacenter. (Please click on the image for a full-size view.)
