We had a mini discussion last night on chat. There was debate about which is best.
So,
– Which is best for dev and test ?
– Which is best for production ?
– Which is cheapest ?
– Is virtual box any good ?
I use hyper-v on Windows 8 with 32 GB. Got 3 versions of SharePoint running most of the time and its awesome. I still remember the horror days of Virtual Pc. Microsoft have come a long way.
VMware has the same feature as differencing disks but it is called linked cloning. Setup a base VM, then clone into other VMs which all share the same base.
console runs fine but not the server components 🙂
Seb, which version of system center are you referring to (2010 or 2012)? The console or server?
Reason I ask is that I have the 2012 SP1 console running on Win8 perfectly. Not sure if the server would run though…
i’d love to run Win8 but unfortunately system center doesn’t run on it… :((
Seb I was with you on using server as an operating system, did it myself for many years. However, when MS fully supported Hyper-V on Win 8, that changed it all for me. It absolutely rocks and the performance I get is very acceptable.Â
