While most of the IT world focused in on this year's release of VMware vSphere 5.1 and its ongoing war with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Red Hat's latest virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, has sparked a quieter RHEV vs. vSphere debate. The open source vendor outfitted RHEV 3.1 with a number of scalability and performance improvements that help level the playing field with vSphere 5.1.
Before you scoff at the RHEV vs. vSphere comparison, take this quiz and see for yourself how the platforms stack up.
This was first published in December 2012
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