Hyper-V codenamed Viridian was formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization. It is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x64 systems. Beta version of first released with x64 editions of Windows Server 2008. Final version of Hyper-V was released on 26 June 2008. Hyper-V was regarded as one of the best feature of Windows Server 2008. Including Hyper-V is seen as Microsoft’s entry into the world of virtualization. To lead Citrix XenServer and VMware Microsoft is building a hypervisor and virtualization management tools directly into its operating system. Hyper-V requires a 64-bit computer running the 64-bit computer running the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008. On Virtual Machines can afford running Hyper-V. Hyper-V looks like a hopeful feature for the Windows Serer virtualizations platforms. Let’s see some of the advantages and few disadvantages of Hyper-V:

Cost Efficient

Hyper-V comes with most of the versions of Windows Server 2008. Now web-hosting providers will only have to pay for the cost of the license of operating system. There is no need to pay extra for the virtualization program they are using. If you are using Virtuozzo then you will have to pay for OS as well as virtualization program. Clear indication is that the web-hosting providers who are offering Windows VPS can now sell it on much lower cost if they wish to move to Hyper-V.

User Friendly

Hyper-V is based on Microsoft Windows, which is said to be most user friendly OS in the world. XenServer and VMware are based on Linux. Although Linux has many advantages over Windows but because of its user friendly GUI Windows rules the world of OS. Therefore it will not be a problem for the clients, as they will get virtualization on Windows. VMware and XenServer can also host Windows but only as a guest VM.

Microsoft’s Support

It is clear that Microsoft provides better support for its server application of they run on Hyper-V rather on third-party virtualization platforms. If the customer wants to run some applications like SharePoint or Exchange server on a virtual server, there support will lay an important role.

Leading Virtuozzo

There are more features on Hyper-V then Virtuozzo have for Windows VPS. One of the most notable of them is ability to host Windows Server 2008 based virtual machines. At this point of time Virtuozzo is unable to host these machines. So VPS based on Hyper-V will have more features than Virtuozzo based VPS. So for the same price you can get more features.

Everybody has a dark side so as Hyper-V. Its dark side is the advantages that web-hosting providers and the customers will face if they use Hyper-V. Although Hyper-V is free some hosting providers are still hesitant to make a change and move over to Windows Server 2008 based servers. Many features that are expected from any VPS daemon are also missing from Hyper-V. However you can say that Hyper-V is deigned for internal use more than n commercial use. To blow your party below are some of the disadvantages linked with Hyper-V:

No Backup Restoration

Not can’t restore data backup restoration plan on Hyper-V. Hyper-V creates a VHD (Virtual HardDisk). It is not possible to manage the data from the main server, in the dark situation of server crash, you can’t migrate data to new virtual machine.

Lack of web based Control panel

There is no web based control panel in Hyper-V. A web based control panel allows the users to control their VPS. Also they can work on their VPS through Remote Desktop. For example if there is a process, which is blocking up the server you can end it using the web-based interface. On the other hand Virtuozzo offers a web-based control panel which can be used in such situations.

Lack of support for Linux Flavors

It’s the support for both Linux and Windows, which makes Virtuozzo so popular. Web hosting provider’s offers both Linux and Windows based VPS hosting services, so this point makes a difference. Hyper-V only supports Windows with only support for only one Linux Distribution Suse 10. For the windows users or Suse 10 users its okay, but for the bigger organizations who wants other Linux distributions, Hyper-V is not a good option.

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