Compete (and Complementing) VMWare Leon Booth, Solution Specialist, Microsoft Scott Gosling, Practice Lead, Data#3 Terry Burgess, vWorkspace Specialist, Quest Server Virtualisation in Australia Leading adoption of server virtualisation >80% of EPG customers use virtualisation >20% of production servers are virtualised VMware Australia is a leading subsidiary is used as a best practice sales subsidiary within VMware. They get to our customers before we do VMware has made several claims about Microsoft products and its own virtualisation products in an attempt to position its solutions as providing more capabilities at a greater value. The VMware arguments simply dont stack up. ESXs footprint size Hyper-V has low performance Windows Server does not have clustered file systems Hyper-V is a 1.0 product VMWare FUD Microsoft lacks live migration capabilities You need VMware to virtualise VMware is cost competitive VMware offers better management capabilities VMware can accommodate twice as many virtual machines on its hypervisor VMWare FUD VMware supports the most hardware Why Customers are Excited about Microsoft Virtualisation 7 Data centre to desktop Full range of products & solutions Large partner eco- system End-to-End Management Physical and Virtual & Cross-hypervisor Interoperability Its the Platform you know Tools you know Key feature of platform Best TCO/ROI VMware is 6 times the cost of Microsoft Significant Savings Lower ongoing costs Windows Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V Better flexibility Live Migration Cluster Shared Volumes Hot Add/remove of Storage Improved performance Improved memory management with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) Reduced CPU burden with TCP Offload support Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Support Improved Networking throughput with Jumbo Frame Support Greater scalability 64 logical processor support Processor power management support and enhance Green IT with Core Parking System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RTM within 60 days of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enables new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 Address major customer asks Support for new Windows Server 2008 R2 features Live migration Support for CFS (Clustered Shared Volumes and 3rd party solutions) Hot add/remove of VHDs, Pass-through disks Maintenance mode Evacuate VMs from host using Live migration Storage Migration Support new Quick Storage Migration Enables Storage VMotion with ESX hosts Embracing VMWare Virtual Workload Provisioning OS / Software Deploy, Patching and State Mgmt Performance and Health Monitoring Disaster Recovery Hardware Provisioning Backup Managing The Server Lifecycle Server Management Suite Enterprise/Datacenter Scott Gosling Data #3 VDI v Desktop Solutions Microsoft doesnt have features to support enterprise class VDI VDI will reduce your Microsoft Licensing spend VMWare FUD VDI lowers TCO Microsoft is a multivendor solution Microsoft doesnt like Virtualisation Microsoft too complex and expensive VMWare FUD Microsoft doesnt have a VDI solution Terry Burgess Quest Replaceable PC Flexibility, easy to migrate users Replaceable PC Flexibility, easy to migrate users Extending PC Life Security, low cost, carbon-neutral Extending PC Life Security, low cost, carbon-neutral Working from Home Security, emergency access Working from Home Security, emergency access Hot-Desking Flexibly, compliance, free seating Hot-Desking Hosted Image Security, right apps and data Hosted Image Security, right apps and data User State Virtualisation Application Virtualisation Desktop Virtualisation Client-hosted desktop virtualisation Server-based desktop virtualisation Terminal Services VDI Choosing the right solution