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VMWARE are kings of the virtualization world. In a distant second place is Microsoft with Hyper-V. In order to kickstart IT Professionals into learning Hyper-V they offer a great little online course here;  Microsoft Hyper-V Learning This is all done via the Microsoft Virtual Academy - an online learning resource. In addition to the learning you can, at time of writing, get an exam voucher to do the associated Microsoft exam for free. This is $150 (£99) worth of exam credit. So you can potentially get a real qualification out of the course. I thought it was great and invaluable to understand Hyper-V.

I am one of those IT people who has a little home server. Some time ago I decided it would be a great idea to install VMWARE ESXi on it. Basically turning it into a small data centre. At the time I could get a PowerEdge T110 from Dell with 16gb of memory pretty cheaply and it has served me well. I have some virtual Windows servers, a Solaris server and a Linux server all together. With this kind of combination you can test new software, install different versions of Windows, check out new stuff and not affect the laptop I use day to day. All this was good but what you can't do (easily) is run Microsoft's virtualised environment (Hyper-V) inside VMWARE ESXi. You can in theory and there a few Internet articles on the topic. Some are a little dated but mostly you end up doing unsupported processes on ESXi. So I came to the conclusion that I needed another little home server. I begin to feel like I am building a larger data centre in my home now. I got down to some reasonably price