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Microsoft HyperV 3 versus Vmware vSphere 5 Erik Scholten & Alex Muetstege

VMUG.BE - 1 June 2012

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Who Are We?

•  www.vmguru.nl •  5 years •  5 guys

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Who Are We?

Erik Scholten

•  37 years old •  Solution Architect •  15 years professional

experience •  VMware vExpert

2009/2010/2011/2012

Alex Muetstege

•  38 years old •  Solution Architect •  15 years professional

experience •  VMware vExpert

2011/2012

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Who Are We

Employees 700 ICT experts in the Netherlands. Locations Alphen aan den Rijn, Amersfoort, Capelle aan den IJssel, Zaltbommel and Eindhoven. Services Management & Consultancy, Infrastructuur & Communicatie, Software & Services. Partners Avaya, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft & VMware. Customers Industry, Distribution & Transport (IDT), Education and Healthcare.

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Server virtualization landscape is changing

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Where are we now?

versus

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VMware: a little history

•  VMware was founded in 1998 •  Located in Palo Alto, California (Silicon Valley) •  First virtualization product (VMware Workstation) in 1999 •  First server virtualization product (VMware GSX and ESX) in 2001 •  Acquired by EMC in 2004 •  About 11.200 employees

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Microsoft (and HyperV): a little history

•  Microsoft was founded in 1975 •  Located in Redmond, Washington •  92.000 Employees •  Microsoft is in Virtualization since 2004 •  First product: Virtual PC from takeover of Connectix •  Hyper-V as first bare metal hypervisor since (Windows) 2008

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Current situation

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But what’s has MS announced

New placement policies

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But what’s has MS announced

Cluster Aware Updating (CAU)

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But what’s has MS announced

Hyper-V replica

not native – Add-on

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But what’s has MS announced

SMB Live Migration

Host 1 Host 2

SMB File Server

No SMB support with VMware Concern: SMB performance is not that great! Nice for SMB or less demanding environments

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But what’s has MS announced

Shared nothing Live Migration

Blue = Networking

Host 1 Host 2

No Shared Storage

No VMware alternative Concern: performance depends on network throughput LAN : 1GbE = 93MB/sec (eff. 75%), 50GB VM => 10 minutes WAN : 100MbE = 9MB/sec (eff. 75%), 50GB VM => 1,5 hours

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But what’s has MS announced

Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)

Intelligent Storage Array

Virtual Disk

Virtual Disk

Actual Data Transfer

Offload Read Token Token Offload

Write

Token

No support from any storage vendor yet.

VMware Array Intergration (VAAI)

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Warning!

•  Statements about capabilities or benefits are subject to change

•  Packaging and licensing have not yet been determined

•  Any concepts shown are for illustration purposes only

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About Windows 8 and Hyper-V v3

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Warning!

WARNING LOTS OF TEXT COMING

YOUR WAY

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Hyper-V 3 – New Scalability features Scalability: •  Support for up to 63 nodes per cluster and 4000 VM’s

•  Up to 32 virtual CPU’s in 1 VM •  Up to 160 logical CPU’s in one host •  Up to 1024 VM’s and 2048 virtual processors per host

•  Max 512 GB RAM per VM •  Max 2TB RAM per host

•  No more limits on Live (Storage) Migration (limited by hardware only) •  Live Storage Migration to SAS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel or SMB share •  Extensible virtual switch (plugin model for 3rd parties) •  VHDX Format now supports up to 16 TB disks •  Official Support for NIC Teaming on hardware in the box •  Cluster Services inside VMs can run on FC or iSCSI •  ODX Support (Offloaded Data Transfer) on storage •  Enhanced PowerShell integration

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Hyper-V 3 – New Availability features

Availability: •  Virtual Machine Boot Priority •  Priority Workloads (low, medium, high) •  Intelligent placing of VMs on hosts •  Bitlocker support on clustered disks (Encrypted Cluster Volumes) •  Anti-Affinity VM rules •  VM Health monitoring support (in VM support) •  In Box Maintenance Support (Cluster Aware Updating) •  Hyper-V Replica (High availability for single VMs on another host) •  New virtual ‘Fiber Channel Adapter’

•  4 virtual FC cards can be attached to 1 physical card •  2 virtual FC cards in 1 VM can point to 2 different physical cards

•  Share Nothing Migration (move VM from stand alone host 1 to host 2)

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Wow!

Apparently….

Steve had a lot of catching up to do

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Let’s compare Scalability

32 hosts/cluster

3000 virtual machines/cluster

40 hosts/cluster

4000 virtual machines/cluster

32 vCPU virtual machines 32 vCPU virtual machines

160 logical CPU’s/host 160 logical CPU’s/host

512GB memory/virtual machine

2TB memory/host

1TB memory/virtual machine

2TB memory/host

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Let’s compare Availability

VM boot priority

Workload priority

Intelligent placement of VM’s

(Anti-) Affinity rules

Cluster aware updating

Guest clustering

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Let’s compare Storage features

FC support iSCSI support

FCoE support

NFS support

SMB support

SAN integration

Share nothing live migration

VAAI / VASA ODX supported by EMC/NetApp/IBM/Dell

Native VM replica Live storage migration

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Let’s compare I/O features

NIC teaming support Port ID virtualization

3rd Party switch

Distributed virtual switch

Storage I/O control

Network I/O control

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It’s not all about the features

Avoid the discussion based on features alone

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What to do.

1.  Sell VMware strengths 2.  Avoid the Hyper-V 3 trap 3.  Ace the pricing discussion

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What to do.

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VMware strengths

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More choice for the Cloud

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Better security

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What to do.

1.  Sell VMware strengths 2.  Avoid the Hyper-V 3 trap 3.  Ace the pricing discussion

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Avoid the Hyper-V 3 trap

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MS Marketing quotes

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3 key selling points

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Promises, promises

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Waiting costs €€

2012 2013 2014

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1-Q4

*Source: Gartner in the “Evolving Your Windows Server Environment” presentation at the 2011 Datacenter Conference

12-15 month maturation period*

(Test application compatibility, Build system images,

Train IT staff, Run pilots)

Begin migration

You are Here

Wait for Windows Server 8 to ship

Functionality that meets needs today and tomorrow

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Customers prefer VMware

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What to do.

1.  Sell VMware strengths 2.  Avoid the Hyper-V 3 trap 3.  Ace the pricing discussion

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It’s not all about features, TCO/ROI matters

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VMware more expensive?

Basic consolidation: 3 hosts, no SAN

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VMware more expensive?

No planned downtime: 3 hosts, with a SAN VSA

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What’s in it for me?

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Conclusion

So are we all going to migrate to Microsoft?

HyperV 3 improvements •  Scalability: huge •  Availability: impressive

But is it enough to compete? Scalability: same as others Availability: same as others

Unique features: •  Share nothing Migration •  Hyper-V Replica •  SMB support

And.. It’s still not here yet… And.. How about the cloud?

Hyper-V 3 is vSphere 4 (+) But we’re already waiting for vSphere 6!

We think: SMB market will be very interested in Hyper-V3

Competition is good for business

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Contact

info@vmguru.nl

alex@vmguru.nl erik@vmguru.nl

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