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Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Which One's Better for Your Private Cloud?

Microsoft and VMware are pitched in battle in the private cloud space. Both are worthwhile contenders, so how do you pick the right one for your project?

VMWorld 2013: A World Unto Itself

VMworld 2013 is no ordinary show. For Virtualization Review, it's the event of the year -- the one that takes our breath away as we try to keep up with new developments and updates upon updates on products that churn out of the labs of VMware and the related third-party products and services ecosystem.

Don't Miss These VMworld 2013 Sessions

With 358 sessions, time is money. Here are five sessions where your time will be well spent.

Deploy VMs from a Template via vSphere Web Client

I find myself working within vSphere Web Client more these days, and using the product is growing on me.

ESXi Is Hyper-V, Management Isn't

Hear this, Hyper-V deniers: The hypervisor you hate is the hypervisor you love

How To Analyze Performance, Capacity with Foglight

Foglight Free Edition has enough capability to figure out your performance and capacity issues. Here's a look at the various tools.

The Disaster Recovery Assurance Paradigm Shift

The cloud has shifted the frequency with which we need to test our systems' capabilities to come back from disaster, from months to right now and often.

Network Virtualization Key to IaaS Clouds

Here's why network virtualization is a better fit than traditional networking for IaaS cloud deployments.

ESXi is Hyper-V; Management Isn't

These intensely competitive hypervisors by all appearances are the same. But it's the tools for managing their environments that make all the difference in the world.

Unlocking the True Potential of Hybrid Cloud

Automation and orchestration is the key to moving a cloud between its private and public manifestations.

Hyper-V Deep Dive 8: Improvements in Migration

One thing virtualization admins can't do without: VM migration. We look at improvements that Microsoft has made in this area to conclude our series.

Hyper-V Deep Dive 7: New Storage Enhancements

Storing VMs on file shares, CSV enhancements, guest Fibre Channel, and the new VHDX format: it's all about better ways to work with storage in this version of Hyper-V.

How To Manage vSphere from Workstation

Here's a cool new trick I learned absolutely by accident when working with a Wordpress server.

A Role for Role-Based Monitoring in the Virtualization, Cloud Space

Security monitoring must adapt to remain effective in the cloud and virtualization arena. That's where role-based monitoring comes in.

Hyper-V Deep Dive 6: Security and Disaster Recovery

Let's look at what Microsoft's hypervisor offers by way of improvements to security and disaster recovery.

The Many Uses of VMware's Hand On Lab Infrastructure

It'd be nice to see the company use it for VCP self-paced training next.

Hyper-V Deep Dive, Part 5: NUMA, Scalability, Monitoring Improvements

Now that you know what's new in networking in Hyper-V, let's look at scalability, NUMA and VM monitoring.

Converged Infrastructure, or 'Where Did All the Silos Go?'

Quite a few companies are mashing up server, storage, networking and even the hypervisor into turnkey solutions that can scale up or down as data center needs dictate.

Hyper-V Deep Dive, Part 4: More Networking Enhancements

Enhancements to the newest version of Hyper-V can affect the design of your networks. Here's a look at NIC Teaming and some new data center design options.

How to Get VMware Documentation on iPhone, Kindle or iBooks

It's nice to know that VMware's documentation is accessible on my iPhone or Amazon Kindle. Here's how to gain access, too.

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