• Resource Misallocation

Many administrators do a common mistake: Hyper-V virtual hard disks (VHDXs) for everything.
VHDX, despite being beneficial in many ways, are mostly wasteful.

• Imbalance of Memory and CPUs

Microsoft recommends a maximum of 12 virtual CPUs per physical core. Keeping this in mind, it is necessary to have a balance between CPUs and RAM.  Using a Performance monitor tracing helps you get that balance so that you do not run out of memory before you run out CPU.

• Blindly Accepting VM Configuration Defaults

Most people often overlook the options while configuring the VM and end up accepting the default settings. In reality, you only get to have one vCPU in the default settings and the Virtual memory is set to 1 TB (you pretty much would never need this much of Virtual memory, honestly!). For guest OS XP/ Server 2003, the requirement automatically becomes at least 2 vCPUs. By accepting default configurations, you might end up risking the distribution of resource allocation by the host.

• Imbalance of SSD and Spinning Disks

For optimal Hyper-V server manager settings one good Hyper-V Management practice is to have a balance between SSD and spinning Disks via the Hyper-V virtual machine manager. In ideal case, an SSD churns the spinning disk while the Hyper-V server is installed directly over it. So, the SSD’s fast speed must be leveraged on to work with the VM data.

• Not Joining a Domain

Joining a Domain is another sane thing to do for better Hyper-V Management.  Generally Hyper-V hosts should never reside on a perimeter network. Leaving a host in a work-group makes it vulnerable to attacks. An attacker can penetrate and get unauthorized access to all VHDX files.

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Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere | A Comparison

The golden Tip: Don’t Avoid PowerShell

It is without a doubt that PowerShell requires some effort to learn, however, once administrators get their hands on the awesome tool, they can easily manage multiple tasks in parallel. PowerShell allows the users to get access on the following:

• .NET Framework API
• Windows Management Instrumentation
• Windows Component Object Model
• Command Prompt
• PowerShell Commands

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It comes as a little surprise that VMware’s products especially VMware vSphere hypervisor are a lot mature since VMware vSphere hypervisor has been longer in the game than Microsoft Hyper-V. However, Microsoft Hyper-V has a few features that best fit in the modern-day enterprise environment.

Hyper-V vs. VMware on Workload Migration

While working in virtual environments, workload migration becomes a basic necessity. VMware has vMotion and Hyper-V offers Live Migration. While the former is a part of VMware vSphere and supports seamless migration in real time to balance server loads, Live Migration also supports migrations with Zero Downtime. Experts believe the implementation of Live Migration is complex than vMotion since Live Migration requires Microsoft Failover Clustering to be set up before actually performing the migration.

Hyper-V vs. VMware comparison on Architecture

When it comes to architecture, Hyper-V has two variants: Hyper-V role and Hyper-V server. The underlying architecture is built over micro-kernelized hypervisors. This means it follows the model where a host provides direct access to hardware resources. It also allows for the isolation of Virtual Machines into logical units known as partitions

On the other hand, vSphere is a collection of different components. At the core, there is VMware ESXi which is a native hypervisor that manages host servers and also multiple guest Virtual machines. Hence the VMware ESXi manages and enables computing resources shared by all Virtual machines running across the system. ESXi VMware vSphere hypervisor reduces overhead on the system as introduced in its earlier versions.

Hyper-V vs. VMware on Management Tools

Management tools are yet again very important while working in virtualized environments. VMware vSphere hypervisor offers vCenter which offers centralized data management for effective virtualized cloud infrastructures. It allows for viewing and controlling of ESXi hosts and host clusters

Microsoft Offers Microsoft System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It allows for management of multiple VMs running in same environment and also allows admins to create, control and delete VMs. It provides access to memory, drivers, storage and other areas for better resource management.

Hyper-V vs. VMware on Snapshot Technology

In order to capture a point in time copy of a Virtual machine including the containing data, snapshot technology is used. It comes in handy when any VM is disaster struck. VMware vSphere hypervisor offers snapshots white Hyper-V offers Checkpoints.

With Snapshot, you can take 32 snapshots per VM, store the snapshot in files like normal files in a VM and it is transient in nature. On the other hand, Checkpoints are persistent in nature, there is an option to take 64 snapshots for each VM and they are saved in host server which can be exported later. That is an essential thing for any cloud business.

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