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VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

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That said, VMware ESX was the overall winner in this virtualization performance contest – where we were limited to running six concurrent VMs because of the combination of our server’s processor cores ...

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[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...