Microsoft has been busy refining the latest version of its virtualization hypervisor, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. The product now supports live migrations, a clustered virtual machine file system, 64-bit operating systems, and machine specs similar to those of comparable VMware offerings.
With those heavy-duty features in place, it's a good time to look at how viable Hyper-V is as an alternative to VMware's market-leading ESX server virtualization platform. Below, we compare ESX with Hyper-V feature sets in eight critical categories
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