No experience with KVM. I am of the opinion that a company with millions in revenue should consider what does it cost to save a few dollars. Availability of administration, ability to get rapid support for a mainstay product and reliability of the company supporting must be…

We have used MS-SQL server VM's for 4 years without incident. I HIGHLY recommend full flash SAN with 10 GbE ISCSI connectivity if speed is an issue. Curious why you say the Hyper-V is more suitable?

Two entirely different systems. Assuming you are running ESXi on a server, you have the full capability of the server hardware to run the VM. In VMware workstation, it is a program running on top of windows that then runs the VM. ESXi only a light overhead + additional…