We all know the advantages provided to us by a virtualization infrastructure today. Microsoft’s Virtual Hard Disk (.VHD) format provides a way to make virtual machine hard drives portable and provides administrators an easy way to test an application or an operating system quickly without spending too much time to configure the operating system or the application.  According. 

There is a lot of talk of the next level virtualization being taken to the “cloud”. There are essentially three kinds of virtualization cloud infrastructure available, they are predominantly private and public clouds and recently a Hybrid cloud, which is a fusion of private and public cloud. In this article we will explain what is the difference between private and public cloud.. 

As we all know, Microsoft has made available its Hypervisor called Hyper-V made available for free to end users, also starting with Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1, Hyper-V is made available within the operating system by itself. In order to understand the difference between Microsoft’s free Hyper-V server and the paid version, we must understand the different flavours of Microsoft Hyper-V. 

vSphere 5 is the latest offering from VMWare in its datacenter virtualization line of products. There have been few major changes, such as there is no longer an ESX server. ESXi  is the new baremetal hypervisor used in the vSphere suite.  What used to be called ESXi free server is now called  vSphere free Hypervisor. ESXi is essentially the new ESX server but a thinner version of ESX with. 

I wanted to mention another excellent online resource to you for learning virtualization and that is Microsoft’s Virtual Labs. We try our best to bring you the best virtualization resources possible (see our post about using VMWare GO service to implement VMWare VSphere). Microsoft provides several resources to learn Hyper-V (its baremetal virtualization hypervisor) as well as various.