There's nothing more likely to get a "VMwarite" riled up than comparing Microsoft Virtual Server (MSVS) and VMware ESX Server. Although they both virtualize an x86 system, MSVS runs on top of Windows, and ESX Server doesn't.
VMware does have a server product that runs on top of a host operating system like MSVS, and it's the free VMware Server. MSVS should by all rights be compared to VMware Server, not ESX Server.
ESX Server is much more powerful, but comes at a higher price, a bit more complexity for enterprise-scale deployments, and a smaller universe of supported hardware.
So let's look at this article by Alex Barrett at SearchServerVirtualization. It starts with a fair premise -- for some small shops, it's a path of least resistance to just use MSVS and call it a day.
And when you read closely, Alex mentions VMware Server, but when the people he interviews start talking about price and VMotion in an article on MSVS, alarm bells should start going off.
Microsoft Virtual Server flawed, not broken, users say.
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