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All of you have probably heard of the VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator which was launched a few weeks ago. To prove that VMware has a lower cost per application and a higher virtual machine density, The Taneja Group conducted a series of tests showing VMware’s free ESXi outperforming Microsoft’s Hyper-V in each of these areas. Feel free to read the entire document but for those who are time constrained, here is a summary of their technical findings:

• Hyper-V is still an immature product with limitations such as memory overcommitment and limited SMP vCPU support for older Windows OSs and Linux. Did you know Hyper-V only supports one Linux flavor with only one virtual processor? Anyone actually running Hyper-V Linux guests in production?
• Using a DBHammer workload in the guest, you can run up to 100% more VMs on ESXi than on Hyper-V. Actually, there was no technical limitation in creating even more VMs under ESXi, unlike on Hyper-V:

• On a CPU intensive workload (SPECjbb), ESXi delivers 24% more performance than Hyper-V running on the same hardware. This is mainly due to ESXi leveraging large pages and RVI. Hyper-V does not support these technologies.
• So what does this all mean to you? Utilizing VMware’s technology, VMware can be 5% to 29% less expensive than Microsoft.

We encourage everyone to try the calculator to see how much they can save with VMware. Here is a quick video demo on how to use the tool, presented by the creator himself, Alberto Farronato. You’ll find his accent quite sexy: