Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere 6 - Virtualization Comparison

The Discussion

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  Thanks for the nice session Matt.

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  You're welcome!

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  Hi Matt,
  
  this was such a nice session! I learned new stuff and had great fun with the way you present the comparisson between VSphere and HyperV.
  I will continue following your sessions!

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  Don't bother to invest your time in Hyper-V on Nano Server. From 1709 this feature and few other core functions are deprecated. What a fail... I'm very disappointed with Microsoft and how they handle Windows Server 2016.

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  Hi Matt,
  
  What makes hyperv 2016 different from the latest version 6.5 of vsphere? Thanks

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  @binary - HyperV is available for free as a standalone server remarkably similar to nano server, it's not at all surprising to me that they got rid of it from nano since it was virtually identical to the free HyperV offering
  
  @Aaron - they're remarkably similar. HyperV is generally playing catchup with VMware, and it still doesn't offer some VMware specific functions, like hardware passthrough, that may be required in certain environments, but for a traditional server you won't really see a difference between the two. Hyper-V (standalone) is MUCH harder to setup that VMWare, the Hyper-V built into Server 2016 has a GUI and is about the same difficulty as VMWare