Windows Server 2008 R2 and VMWare or?
Someone asked on Server Fault:
I want to use Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host, and load RedHat as a guest OS. Should I use VMWare, or does Windows have something built in that competes with VMWare?
I posted the following answer, which was chosen as the accepted answer:
Windows Server 2008 has Hyper-V built in, and Windows Server 2008 R2 also includes a newer version Hyper-V which supports much better backup and integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (a must have if you are going to be managing more than a handful of virtual host machines).
While it may not be “supported” many other OSes work under Hyper-V, they simply don’t get the integration tools installed. Its a trade-off, but I haven’t seen too many issues with it.
That said, we get very good density out of our Hyper-V machines, although we have very low per-VM usage, we see 20+ VMs on a host machine, with 6 drive RAID-10, 32GB Memory, and two quad-core CPUs.
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