04.23.09

Updated: Reaction to: “How to Correctly Explain the Architectural Differences Between Hyper-V and ESX”

Posted in LinkedIn, Virtualization tagged , at 12:10 PM by Ken Cline

Oh, goodness! It seems that Greg Shields’ attempt at “How to Correctly Explain the Architectural Differences Between Hyper-V and ESX” isn’t all that correct. Oh, he starts out pretty well, classifying both Hyper-V and ESX as Type-1 hypervisors, which is correct. Where he goes astray is when he claims that Hyper-V utilizes “paravirtualization” and ESX relies on “hardware emulation” – wrong! Read the rest of this entry »