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This article discusses ways to migrate to a Microsoft virtualization technology from a non-Microsoft Virtualization technology.
The two Microsoft technologies discussed are:
- Hyper-V
- Microsoft Azure
The non-Microsoft technologies are:
- VMware
- Physical servers
- Public Cloud Platforms (AWS…)
Let’s begin with a short history. VMware has long been an easy leader of the virtualization market share. The release of Hyper-V in 2008 (With Windows Server 2008) changed this. The decision on which to choose is no longer decided before it's taken. Hyper-V 2008 is a real alternative and began to eat into VMWare market share.
The real competition began with the announcement of Windows Server 2012 (Hyper-V 3.0) which offers significant advantages over VMware, in scalability, performance and on features. (See here)
Hyper-V become a first class enterprise visualization technology that enterprises can trust, deploy and use to run production and sensitive enterprise workloads. The following picture shows the hypervisor share growth, and how Hyper-V is gaining in share of shipment while VMware declines.
https://buildwindows.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/hypervisor-share-growth.png?w=401&h=229
Also Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a leader along with VMware in the x86 Virtualization Magic Quadrant (See here)
https://buildwindows.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gartner-2014-virtualization-mq.png?w=344&h=344
Also, regarding the Public Cloud platforms, today Microsoft is a leader in the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and Storage services. The following are the Gartner 2014 MQ results (See here)
https://buildwindows.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gartner-2014-public-cloud-iaass-mq.png?w=300&h=300
Gartner 2014 Iaas MQ
https://buildwindows.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gartner-2014-public-cloud-paass-mq.png?w=300&h=300
Gartner 2014 PaaS MQ
https://buildwindows.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gartner-2014-public-cloud-storage-mq.png?w=300&h=300
Gartner 2014 Storage Services MQ
As a result, and to provide users a way to pass from all these technologies to Hyper-V, Microsoft started delivering tools and solutions to perform such migrations. This article series will cover these tools and explain the options.
The series is divided into 4 parts: