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Are Hyper-V and ESX Server essentially the same?

April 26, 2017essentially esx Hyper-V server

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Are Hyper-V and ESX Server essentially the same?

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—No. Both products are hypervisor-based, but the implementation is quite different. ESX Server device drivers are part of the hypervisor itself. Hyper-V uses a microkernel implementation with no device drivers in the hypervisor: They’re in the parent partition.