Hyper-V now also requires mandatory memory virtualization assist. Hardware requirements have become overall similar, considering also VMware requires hardware assisted technologies. For the security aspect, it now has extended security support of shielded VMs to Linux VMs.

Realistically a big part of the features gap was already filled by version 2016 and the new version does not have that much difference in the Hyper-V or the scalability aspect. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V is a new milestone after the Windows Server 2016 version released just 4 years ago! The latest version is VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 released on April 4 th 2019. Most of the real improvement in scalability are on the management layer (the vCenter Server). VMware vSphere 6.7 introduced several enhancements (especially in the security aspect) and slightly improved some scalability aspects. Sometimes “numbers” are really easy, but not enough to describe the differences: for example memory management is still really different (VMware implements different technologies, Hyper-V only Dynamic Memory, only on some OSes) … so it’s not exactly “the same” what you can do – even with the same “amount” of memory. One needs to found a homogenous set of critera to make the comparison, at least on the technical level. (visit back here for an upcoming second view!) Windows Server 2019 vs VMware vSphere 6.7Ĭomparing two different product is not always easy.

We thought it would be great to provide some context with a few different views and who better to give us an opinionated view than Andrea Mauro from 😉 Happy reading! You can now select this independent evaluation of Windows Server 2019 from the online Virtualization Comparison.

Check out this weeks’ update to the Virtualization comparison where we’ve reflected all changes introduced with Windows Server 2019, thanks to our community expert Romain Serre from Tech-coffee – all Kudos to him!

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