Bye bye Citrix XenServer
As we are in the week of the obituaries, let’s do another one. A few weeks ago when vSphere 5.5 was release I updated our Enterprise Hypervisor Comparison. As Citrix and Red Hat both had released a new version of their hypervisor product I also added…
How does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to the competition?
So how does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to the competition? Yesterday VMware release vSphere 5.5 which includes many new features and enhancements, again raising the bar for the competition. But how does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 6.2 or RedHat…
Enterprise Hypervisor comparison (RHEV added)
Back by popular demand, the Enterprise Hypervisor comparison. After the release of our latest comparison I’ve received a lot of requests to include RedHat’s RHEV to the comparison. Although I’ve never encountered it in enterprise environments, I decided to add it as a service to…
NEW Enterprise Hypervisor comparison (2012)
Two weeks ago VMware released the new version of their vSphere hypervisor, so it’s time to update our Enterprise Hypervisor comparison. It very impressive to see how quick VMware has reacted to the Hyper-V 3 announcements and has taken most of the wind out of…
Updated Enterprise hypervisor comparison
During the last few years we published several Enterprise Hypervisor comparisons and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. With the release of vSphere 5, XenServer 6 and a service pack for Hyper-V it was time for an update. It very interesting to…
New Enterprise Hypervisor comparison
Last year we published an Enterprise Hypervisor comparison and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. During the last few weeks I received many update requests so I decided to update the old hypervisor comparison but this time I changed the setup…
Project VRC: Clock drift and test results
Project Virtual Reality Check finally posted a new document about previous results and possible clock drift when using the “Login Virtual Session Indexer (VSI)”. Previous test setups and results didn’t take into account how different hypervisors handle passing time. In my opinion this is a…
Our first XEN-Experience, a XenServer 5.5 testdrive
As I am in the final week before my holiday and all projects are finished, I thought it might be a good idea to check out the competition. So I downloaded the free version of Citrix’s XenServer 5.5 to see what the fuss is all…