Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: Containers vs Virtual Machines — Part 29

Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: Overview of Hyper-V — Part 1
Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How to Install Microsoft Hyper-V Using Server Manager — Part 2
Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How to Install Microsoft Hyper-V with PowerShell — Part 3
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As you become more familiar and comfortable using Hyper-V virtual machines and running containers on your Hyper-V hosts, it will be necessary to decide which services and apps you run where. Hyper-V is an excellent platform for either virtual machines or containers and can handle both use cases well. However, deciding which applications run where is essential to optimally utilize your hardware and software investments. So, let’s look at Hyper-V containers vs. virtual machines and see which infrastructure fits which use case.

What are virtual machines?

Before comparing the advantages and disadvantages of virtual machines and containers, we first need to understand what a virtual machine and a container are. Virtual machines are virtual representations of a physical machine running on the same hardware. Virtual machines are made possible by a hypervisor that virtualizes the hardware and allows multiple operating systems to run on the physical hardware.

Virtual machines provide additional security benefits for applications and workloads in each environment. In addition, running multiple virtual operating systems on the same physical hardware has led to much more efficient use of today’s powerful physical hardware. As a result, many organizations underwent massive server exercises to perform “physical to virtual” or P2V operations to migrate physical hardware to virtual machines.

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