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.
I would say one thing that Virtual box does have is speed and ease to setup. I would say Hyper-V is next in terms of ease and then VMware. Just the other day I created 3 DCs (512MB Ram), 1 2010 App Server (1024MB RAM), 1 2010 WFE Server (1024MB RAM) and 1 SQL 2008 R2 box (2048MB RAM). This was within Virtual Box and although I only really created this to play about with people picker in a multiple domain environment it worked quite well. No doubt if I was to have put the environment under some real load then it would have ground to a halt very quickly indeed. Another pro is it is a very small download and installation process with Virtual box. I do love the fact that Hyper-V comes as a feature of Windows 8 though 🙂
