The battle between Hyper-V and VMware is ongoing, with both sides taking no prisoners, and each player bringing their product up to par when new features are implemented by the other.

This time though, Hyper-V takes this round, especially with all the goodies in Hyper-V for Windows Server.Next.

A few of the features that this award selection board like about Hyper-V aren’t those features that might garner the most attention. However, they are the features that we see making the lives of our staff, and those of our clients, easy.

They are:

• Alternate credentials support
• Down-level management
• Better Hyper-V Backups
• Updated management protocol
• Distributed storage QoS
• Hot-pluggable NICs

Honorable mention

VirtualBox
Thanks to a Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols post on ZDNet, I tried Oracle VirtualBox, and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use.

I even tried it out on low-spec systems where it performed admirably.

I understand that it does as well on Apple OS X, so I am looking forward to using it when a project I have in mind comes to fore.

Definitely recommended

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