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Tudor DamianIT Solutions SpecialistVirtual Machine MVP

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The Good

• You have an API set in here that vendors can program against

• Antivirus can run in this level and you can use that to scan all virtual

machines.

• You can run on CPUs that don’t have virtualization extensions

• Only 144 Meg of code vs competitions 5 Gig

The Not as Good

• You have an API set in there that hackers can program against

• Antivirus has access to all VMs – so would an exploited AV

• You have 144 Meg of stuff running at Ring –1

• Drivers must be written for this Hypervisor so supported hardware is

somewhat limited

The Good

• No 3rd party APIs for hackers to code against in Hypervisor

• No global AV option that would could compromise all VMs

• Lots of hardware choices because it relies on the Windows drivers.

• 1.4MB Hypervisor running in Ring –1 vs. 144 Meg in vSphere 5.1

The Not as Good

• No APIs for third parties to add value in hypervisor

• No option to run Antivirus in the Hypervisor

• Requires hardware with CPU Virtualization Extensions

• Requires Windows Management Partition for the drivers

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/10/15/vmware-or-microsoft-comparing-vsphere-5-5-and-windows-server-2012-r2-at-a-glance.aspx

http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category_search=all

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B353

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B352

Source: Kevin Turner (Microsoft COO) @ WPC 2013, based on IDC reports

Scalability &

Performance

Security &

Multitenancy

Flexible

InfrastructureHigh Availability

& Resiliency

Scalability, Performance & Density

System Resource Hyper-V (2008 R2) Hyper-V (2012 R2) Improvement Factor

Host

Logical Processors 64 320 5×

Physical Memory 1TB 4TB 4×

Virtual CPUs per Host 512 2,048 4×

VM

Virtual CPUs per VM 4 64 16×

Memory per VM 64GB 1TB 16×

Active VMs per Host 384 1,024 2.7×

Guest NUMA No Yes -

ClusterMaximum Nodes 16 64 4×

Maximum VMs 1,000 8,000 8×

System Resource Hyper-V (2012 R2)vSphere

HypervisorvSphere 5.1 Ent+ vSphere 5.5 Ent+

Host

Logical Processors 320 160 160 320

Physical Memory 4TB 32GB1 2TB 4TB

Virtual CPUs per

Host2,048 2,048 2,048 4,096

VM

Virtual CPUs per VM 64 8 642 642

Memory per VM 1TB 32GB1 1TB 1TB

Active VMs per Host 1,024 512 512 512

Guest NUMA Yes Yes Yes Yes

ClusterMaximum Nodes 64 N/A3 32 32

Maximum VMs 8,000 N/A3 4,000 4,000

1 Host physical memory is capped at 32GB thus maximum VM memory is also restricted to 32GB usage.2 vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus is the only vSphere edition that supports 64 vCPUs. Enterprise edition supports 32 vCPU per VM with all other editions

supporting 8 vCPUs per VM3 For clustering/high availability, customers must purchase vSphere

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf, https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51-Platform-Technical-

Whitepaper.pdf and http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html

Virtual Fibre ChannelConnect a VM directly to FC SAN without sacrificing features

64TB Virtual Hard DisksIncreased capacity, protection & alignment optimization

Native 4K Disk SupportTake advantage of enhanced density and reliability

OnlineVHDX ResizeIncreased flexibility for virtual disks, with support for grow & shrink operations

Boot from USB DiskFlexible deployment option for diskless servers(Hyper-V Server)

Offloaded Data TransferOffloads storage-intensive tasks to the SAN

StorageSpacesStorage resiliency, availability & performance with commodity hardware

Capability Hyper-V (2012 R2) vSphere Hypervisor vSphere 5.5 Ent+

Virtual Fiber Channel Yes Yes Yes

3rd Party Multipathing (MPIO) Yes No Yes (VAMP)1

Native 4-KB Disk Support Yes No No

Maximum Virtual Disk Size 64TB VHDX 62TB2 62TB2

Online Virtual Disk Resize Yes Grow Only Grow Only

Maximum Pass Through Disk Size 256TB+3 64TB 64TB

Offloaded Data Transfer Yes No Yes (VAAI)4

Boot from USB Yes Yes Yes

Tiered Storage Pooling Yes No No

1 vStorage API for Multipathing (VAMP) is only available in Enterprise & Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 5.1 and above2 vSphere 5.5 support for 62TB VMDK files is limited to when using VMFS5 and NFS datastores only, VMFS3 datastores are still limited to 2TB VMDK

files; also, Hot-Expand, VMware FT , Virtual Flash Read Cache and Virtual SAN are not supported with 62TB VMDK files3 The maximum size of a physical disk attached to a virtual machine is determined by the guest operating system and the chosen file system within

the guest. More recent Windows Server operating systems support disks in excess of 256TB in size4 vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is only available in Enterprise & Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 5.1 and above

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf and http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc%2FGUID-BF2C8E24-B530-4C94-85F6-09E5AE781466.html&resultof=%2262tb%22%20

Dynamic MemoryIncreased control forgreater virtual machine consolidation

Resource MeteringTrack historical data for virtual machine usage

NetworkQoSConsistent level of network performance based on SLAs

StorageQoSControl allocation of Storage IOPS between VM Disks

Capability Hyper-V (2012 R2) vSphere Hypervisor vSphere 5.5 Ent+

Dynamic Memory Yes Yes Yes

Resource Metering Yes Yes1 Yes

Network QoS Yes No2 Yes2

Storage QoS Yes No2 Yes2

1 Without vCenter, Resource Metering in the vSphere Hypervisor is only available on an individual host by host basis.2 Quality of Service (QoS) is only available in the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5.5

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf and http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

Security & Multitenancy

Granular In-box Capabilities

• ARP/ND Poisoning (spoofing)protection

• DHCP Guard protection

• Virtual Port ACLs

• Trunk Mode to VMs

• Network Traffic Monitoring

• Isolated (Private) VLAN (PVLANs)

• PowerShell & WMI Interfaces for extensibility

Layer-2 Network Switch for

Virtual Machine ConnectivityVirtual machine

Networkapplication

Virtual network adapter

Hyper–V host

Hyper-VExtensible Switch

Physical networkadapter

Physical switch

Virtual machine

Networkapplication

Virtual networkadapter

Virtual machine

Networkapplication

Virtual networkadapter

Many Key Features

• Extension monitoring & uniqueness

• Extensions that learn VM life cycle

• Extensions that can veto state changes

• Multiple extensions on same switch

Several Partner Solutions Available

• Cisco – Nexus 1000V & UCS-VMFEX

• NEC – ProgrammableFlow PF1000

• 5nine – Security Manager

• InMon - SFlow

Build Extensions for Capturing,

Filtering & ForwardingParent Partition

Hyper-V Extensible Switch architecture

Extension C

Extension D

Extension A

Extension Miniport

Extension Protocol

Virtual Switch

Physical NIC

Virtual Machine

Host NIC VM NIC

Virtual Machine

VM NIC

Capture Extensions

Filtering Extensions

Forwarding Extension

Capability Hyper-V (2012 R2) vSphere Hypervisor vSphere 5.5 Ent+

Extensible vSwitch Yes No Replaceable1

Confirmed Partner Extensions 5 N/A 2

Private Virtual LAN (PVLAN) Yes No Yes1

ARP Spoofing Protection Yes No vCNS/Partner2

DHCP Snooping Protection Yes No vCNS/Partner2

Virtual Port ACLs Yes No vCNS/Partner2

Trunk Mode to Virtual Machines Yes No Yes3

Port Monitoring Yes Per Port Group Yes3

Port Mirroring Yes Per Port Group Yes3

1 The vSphere Distributed Switch (required for PVLAN capability) is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5.1 and is replaceable

(By Partners such as Cisco/IBM) rather than extensible.2 ARP Spoofing, DHCP Snooping Protection & Virtual Port ACLs require the App component of VMware vCloud Network & Security (vCNS)

product or a Partner solution, all of which are additional purchases3 Trunking VLANs to individual vNICs, Port Monitoring and Mirroring at a granular level requires vSphere Distributed Switch, which is available in

the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5.1

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/cisco-nexus-1000V/overview.html, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/networking/switches/virtual/dvs5000v/, http://www.vmware.com/technical-

resources/virtualization-topics/virtual-networking/distributed-virtual-switches.html, http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51-Network-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf, http://www.vmware.com/products/vshield-

app/features.html and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9902/data_sheet_c78-492971.html

Dynamic

VMq

IPsec Task

Offload

SR-IOV

Support

Dynamically span multiple CPUs when processing

virtual machine network traffic

Offload IPsec processing from within virtual machine,

to physical network adaptor, enhancing performance

Map virtual function of an SR-IOV capable physical network

adaptor, directly to a virtual machine

Virtual Receive

Side Scaling

Scale a VM's send & receive side traffic to multiple virtual

processors, increasing performance whilst reducing bottlenecks

• Standard that allows PCI Express devices to be shared by multiple VMs

• More direct hardware path for I/O

• Reduces network latency, CPU utilization for processing traffic and increases throughput

• SR-IOV capable physical NICs contain virtual functions that are securelymapped to VM

• This bypasses the Hyper-V Extensible Switch

• Full support for Live Migration

Integrated with NIC hardware

for increased performanceVirtual Machine

VM Network Stack

Synthetic NIC

Hyper-VExtensible Switch

SR-IOV NIC VF

Traffic Flow

Virtual Function

VF

Traffic Flow

VF

VHDX on Traditional LUNE:\VM2

Data Protection, built in

• Supports Used Disk Space Only Encryption

• Integrates with TPM chip

• Network Unlock & AD Integration

Multiple Disk Type Support

• Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

• Traditional SAN LUN

• Cluster Shared Volumes

• Windows Server 2012 File Server Share

In-box Disk Encryption to

Protect Sensitive Data

VHDX on Cluster Shared VolumesC:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\VM4

VHDX on File Server\\FileServer\VM3

VHDX on DASF:\VM1

Capability Hyper-V (2012 R2) vSphere Hypervisor vSphere 5.5 Ent+

Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue Yes NetQueue1 NetQueue1

IPsec Task Offload Yes No No

Virtual Receive Side Scaling Yes Yes (VMXNet3) Yes (VMXNet3)

SR-IOV with Live Migration Yes No2 No2

Storage Encryption Yes No No

1 VMware vSphere and the vSphere Hypervisor support VMq only (NetQueue)2 VMware’s SR-IOV implementation does not support vMotion, HA or Fault Tolerance.

DirectPath I/O, whilst not identical to SR-IOV, aims to provide virtual machines with more direct access to hardware devices, with network cards

being a good example. Whilst on the surface, this will boost VM networking performance, and reduce the burden on host CPU cycles, in reality,

there are a number of caveats in using DirectPath I/O:

• Small Hardware Compatibility List

• No Memory Overcommit | No vMotion (unless running certain configurations of Cisco UCS) | No Fault Tolerance

• No Network I/O Control | No VM Snapshots (unless running certain configurations of Cisco UCS)

• No Suspend/Resume (unless running certain configurations of Cisco UCS) | No VMsafe/Endpoint Security support

SR-IOV also requires the vSphere Distributed Switch, meaning customers have to upgrade to the highest vSphere edition to take advantage of this

capability. No such restrictions are imposed when using SR-IOV in Hyper-V, ensuring customers can combine the highest levels of performance with

the flexibility they need for an agile infrastructure.

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.0.pdf

Flexible Infrastructure

Significant Improvements in Interoperability

• Multiple supported Linux distributionsand versions on Hyper-V.

• Includes Red Hat, SUSE, OpenSUSE, CentOS, and Ubuntu

Comprehensive Feature Support

• 64 vCPU SMP

• Virtual SCSI, Hot-Add & Online Resize

• Full Dynamic Memory Support

• Live Backup

• Deeper Integration Services Support

Comprehensive feature

support for virtualized Linux

Server Hardware

Independent HardwareVendor Drivers

WindowsKernel

Virtual Service Provider

Configuration Store

Worker Processes

Management Service

WMI Provider

Hyper-V

Export a clone of a running VM

• Point-time image of running VMexported to an alternate location

• Useful for troubleshooting VMwithout downtime for primary VM

Export from an existing checkpoint

• Export a full cloned virtual machinefrom a point-in-time, existing checkpoint of a virtual machine

• Checkpoints automatically merged into single virtual disk

Duplication of a Virtual

Machine whilst Running

VM1 VM2

1

2

3

4

LiveMigration

Live StorageMigration

Shared-Nothing Live Migration

• Customers can upgrade from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V with no VM downtime

• Supports Shared Nothing Live Migration for migration when changing storage locations

• If using SMB share, migration transfers only the VM running state for faster completion

• Automated with PowerShell

• One-way Migration Only

Simplified upgrade process

from 2012 to 2012 R22012 Cluster Nodes 2012 R2 Cluster Nodes

Hyper-V Cluster Upgrade without Downtime

• Secure Isolation for traffic segregation, without VLANs

• VM migration flexibility & Seamless Integration

Key Concepts

• Provider Address – Unique IP addresses routable on physical network

• VM Networks – Boundary of isolation between different sets of VMs

• Customer Address – VM Guest OS IP addresses within the VM Networks

• Policy Table – maintains relationship between different addresses & networks

Network Isolation & Flexibility

without VLAN Complexity

192.168.2.10 192.168.2.11 192.168.2.12 192.168.2.13 192.168.2.14

10.10.10.10 10.10.10.11 10.10.10.12

Blue Network

10.10.10.10 10.10.10.11 10.10.10.12

Red Network

Network/VSID Provider Address Customer Address

Blue (5001) 192.168.2.10 10.10.10.10

Blue (5001) 192.168.2.10 10.10.10.11

Blue (5001) 192.168.2.12 10.10.10.12

Red (6001) 192.168.2.13 10.10.10.10

Red (6001) 192.168.2.14 10.10.10.11

Red (6001) 192.168.2.12 10.10.10.12

• Network Virtualization using Generic Route Encapsulation usesencapsulation & tunneling

• Standard proposed by Microsoft, Intel, Arista Networks, HP, Dell & Emulex

• VM traffic within the same VSID routable over different physical subnets

• VM’s packet encapsulated fortransmission over physical network

• Network Virtualization is part of the Hyper-V Switch

Network Isolation & Flexibility

without VLAN Complexity

192.168.2.10 192.168.5.12

Different Subnets

10.10.10.10 10.10.10.11

192.168.2.10 ->

192.168.5.12

GRE Key

(5001)MAC

10.10.10.10 ->

10.10.10.11

Same Customer Network & VSID

• Multi-tenant VPN gateway in Windows Server 2012 R2

• Integral multitenant edge gateway for seamless connectivity

• Guest clustering for high availability

• BGP for dynamic routes update

• Encapsulates & De-encapsulatesNVGRE packets

• Multitenant aware NAT forInternet access

Bridge Between VM Networks

& Physical Networks

CapabilityHyper-V

(2012 & R2)

vSphere

Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5

Enterprise Plus

VM Live Migration Yes No1 Yes2

VM Live Migration with Compression Yes (R2) No No

VM Live Migration over RDMA Yes (R2) No No

1GB Simultaneous Live Migrations Unlimited3 N/A 4

10GB Simultaneous Live Migrations Unlimited3 N/A 8

Live Storage Migration Yes No4 Yes5

Shared Nothing Live Migration Yes No Yes5

Live Migration Upgrades Yes (R2) N/A Yes

VM Live Cloning Yes (R2) No Yes6

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf, http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/compare.html,

High Availability & Resiliency

• Massive scalability with support for 64 physical nodes & 8,000 VMs

• VMs automatically failover & restart on physical host outage

• Enhanced Cluster Shared Volumes

• Cluster VMs on SMB 3.0 Storage

• Dynamic Quorum & Witness

• Reduced AD dependencies

• Drain Roles – Maintenance Mode

• VM Drain on Shutdown

• VM Network Health Detection

• Enhanced Cluster Dashboard

Integrated Solution for

Resilient Virtual Machines Cluster Dynamic Quorum Configuration

• Full support for running clustered workloads on Hyper-V host cluster

• Guest Clusters that require shared storage can utilize software iSCSI, Virtual FC or SMB

• Full support for Live Migration of Guest Cluster Nodes

• Full Support for Dynamic Memory of Guest Cluster Nodes

• Restart Priority, Possible & Preferred Ownership, & AntiAffinityClassNameshelp ensure optimal operation

Complete Flexibility for

Deploying App-Level HA Guest Cluster running on a Hyper-V ClusterGuest cluster node restarts on physical host failureGuest cluster nodes supported with Live Migration

• VHDX files can be presented to multiple VMs simultaneously, as shared storage

• VM sees shared virtual SAS disk

• Unrestricted number of VMs canconnect to a shared VHDX file

• Utilizes SCSI-persistent reservations

• VHDX can reside on a Cluster Shared Volume on block storage, or onFile-based storage

• Supports both Dynamic and Fixed VHDX

Guest Clustering No Longer

Bound to Storage Topology Flexible choices for placement of Shared VHDX

• Failover Priority ensures certain VMsstart before others on the cluster

• Affinity rules allow VMs to reside oncertain hosts in the cluster

• AntiAffinityClassNames helps to keep virtual machines apart on separate physical cluster nodes

• AntiAffinityClassNames exposedthrough VMM as Availability Set

Ensure Optimal VM Placement

and Restart Operations Hyper-V cluster with VMs on each nodeUpon failover, VMs restart in priority orderAnti-Affinity keeps related VMs apart

CapabilityHyper-V

(2012 & R2)

vSphere

Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5

Enterprise Plus

Integrated High Availability Yes No1 Yes2

Maximum Cluster Size 64 Nodes N/A 32 Nodes

Maximum VMs per Cluster 8,000 N/A 4,000

Failover Prioritization Yes N/A Yes4

Affinity Rules Yes N/A Yes4

Guest OS Application Monitoring Yes N/A Yes3

Cluster-Aware Updating Yes N/A Yes4

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/compare.html and http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/11/vsphere-5-0-ha-application-

monitoring-intro/, http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf, http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/application-HA.html

Capability Hyper-V (2012 & R2) vSphere Hypervisor vSphere 5.5 Ent+

Nodes per Cluster 64 N/A1 32

VMs per Cluster 8,000 N/A1 4,000

Max Size Guest Cluster (iSCSI) 64 Nodes 5 Nodes1 5 Nodes1

Max Size Guest Cluster (Fiber) 64 Nodes 5 Nodes2 5 Nodes2

Max Size Guest Cluster (File Based) 64 Nodes 5 Nodes1 5 Nodes1

Guest Clustering with Shared Virtual Disk Yes Yes6 Yes6

Guest Clustering with Live Migration Support Yes N/A3 No4

Guest Clustering with DM Support Yes No5 No5

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf, http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.mscs.doc%2FGUID-6BD834AE-

69BB-4D0E-B0B6-7E176907E0C7.html, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037959

• Affordable in-box business continuity and disaster recovery

• Configurable replication frequencies of 30 seconds, 5 minutes and 15 minutes

• Secure replication across network

• Agnostic of hardware on either site

• No need for other virtual machine replication technologies

• Automatic handling of live migration

• Simple configuration and management

Replicate Hyper-V VMs from a

Primary to a Replica site Once Hyper-V Replica is enabled, VMs begin replicationOnce replicated, changes replicated on chosen frequencyUpon site failure, VMs can be started on secondary site

Replication configured from primary to secondaryReplication can be enabled on the 1st replica to a 3rd site

• Once a VM has been successfully replicated to the replica site, replicacan be replicated to a 3rd location

• Chained Replication

• Extended Replica contents match the original replication contents

• Extended Replica replication frequencies can differ from original replica

• Useful for scenarios such as SMB -> Service Provider -> Service Provider DR Site

Replicate to 3rd Location for

Extra Level of Resiliency

CapabilityHyper-V

(2012 & R2)

vSphere

Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5

Enterprise Plus

Incremental Backup Yes No1 Yes1

Inbox VM Replication Yes No1 Yes1

vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.x Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/compare.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/replication.html,

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Replication-Overview.pdf,

Replication Capability Hyper-V Replica vSphere Replication

Architecture Inbox with Hypervisor Virtual Appliance

Replication Type Asynchronous Asynchronous

RTO 30s, 5, 15m 15 Minutes-24 Hours

Replication Tertiary (R2) Secondary

Planned Failover Yes No

Unplanned Failover Yes Yes

Test Failover Yes No

Simple Failback Process Yes No

Automatic Re-IP Address Yes No

Point in Time Recovery Yes, 15 points No

Orchestration Yes, PowerShell, HVRM No, SRM

Scalability,

Performance

& Density

Security &

Multitenancy

Flexible

Infrastructure

High

Availability

& Resiliency

Host: 320 LP | 4TB

Host: 1024 VMs

VM: 64 vCPU | 1TB

VM: 64TB VHDX

Cluster: 64 | 8,000

Virtual Fiber Channel

4K Disk Support

ODX

QoS

Extensible Switch:

PVLANS

ARP/ND Spoofing

DHCP Guard

Monitoring

Mirroring

DVMQ | SR-IOV

IPsec Task Offload

BitLocker

Live Migration

Storage Migration

Shared-Nothing LM

Network

Virtualization

Incremental Backup

Hyper-V Replica

NIC Teaming

Cluster: 64 | 8,000

Secure Cluster

Storage

Enhanced CSV

3 Level Availability

Priority & Affinity

Hyper-V: A More Complete Virtualization Platform

Hypervisor

VM Management

Automation

Service Mgmt.

Self-Service

Monitoring

vSphere Hypervisor

vCenter Server

vFabric Application Director

vCenter Orchestrator

vCloud Automation Center

vCloud Director

vCenter Ops Mgmt. Suite

Hyper-V

Virtual Machine Manager

Orchestrator

Service Manager

App Controller

Operations Manager

Protection vSphere Data Protection Data Protection Manager

Virtual Machine Manager & vSphere

VMM integrates with vCenter 4.1/5.0/5.1 for managing ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1

Aimed at providing the day to day management of VMware VMs – Create, Manage, Store, Deploy.

More advanced tasks still use vCenter –vDS, FT VMs, Update Management

VMM supports managing existing, and creating new vSphere VM & Service templates

Supports key vSphere Features such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, PVSCSI, Thin Provisioning, Hot-Add and adds its own capabilities on top – DO, PO, PRO, intelligent placement, Private Clouds etc.

Day to Day VM Management

with Virtual Machine Manager

App Controller & vSphere

App Controller integrates with VMM, and provides access to any VMM clouds

VMM clouds can consist of capacity from Hyper-V, vSphere, XenServer or a combination

Users & Groups can be delegated access to these vSphere-based clouds with individual-level capacity limits

Users can deploy vSphere-based VM & Service Templates to vSphere hosts

Users can also have access to Windows Azure for deploying VMs & applications

Self-Service access to VMs

running on vSphere

Operations Manager & vSphere

Veeam MP for VMware provides OpsMgr admins with granular insight into their vSphere infrastructure

Agentless Collection providing end-to-end visibility from the physical server, to the hypervisor, to the virtual machines hosting your critical applications and services

Full System Center functionality – including alerts, diagrams, dashboards, reporting, auditing, notifications, responses and automation for all VMware components

Powerful reports for capacity planning, failure modelling, cluster capacity and more

Rich topology views for Storage, Compute & Networking

Partnering with Veeam to

deliver deep vSphere insight

Orchestrator & vSphere

vSphere Integration Pack contains a large number out-of-the-box activities for automating vSphere

Administrator connects Orchestrator to vCenter, or to ESXi directly.

Allows the administrator to automate vSphere tasks in isolation, or combine vSphere activities into broader runbooks, connected with other systems

If the Integration Pack doesn’t containthe desired task, admins can add their on IP through scripts, or PowerCLI

Automating key tasks within

the vSphere environmentvSphere Integration Pack - Activities

Constructing,

Delivering &

Consuming Apps

Maintaining,

Managing &

Monitoring Apps

Protection of Key

Applications &

Workloads

Standardized

VM Templates

Roles & Features

Application Layers

VM Templates 2.0:

Service Templates

Deployment

into clouds

Role-based

Self Service

Controlled

Consumption

Construction, Delivery & Consumption

Application Construction, Delivery & Consumption

Capability Microsoft VMware

Request Private Cloud Resources Yes Yes1

Role-Based Self-Service Yes Yes

Standardized Templates Yes Yes2

Template Granularity: Roles / Features Yes No

Template Granularity: Application Layer Yes Yes3

Service/Multi-Tier Templates Yes Yes3

Deployment Across Heterogeneous Clouds Yes Yes4

1. vCloud Automation Center allows for the requesting of private cloud resources but lacks a true CMDB capability in box.

2. Each VMware VM template will have it’s own VMDK, even if the template varies only slightly in it’s configuration options.

3. No alternatives to Server Application Virtualization (App-V) thus relies on regular installation methods or inflexible scripts.

4. vCloud Automation Center allows deployment onto non-VMware infrastructure at a cost of $400 per managed machine + S&S

however once deployed, it could not be managed from vCloud Director along with other VMware-based VMs.

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-automation-center/features.html,

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/management/vmw-vcloud-automation-center-faq.pdf

Centralized

Maintenance

Extends beyond the

private cloud

Integrated Service

Management

Powerful, relevant

automation

Deep application

insight

Connecting

Dev-Ops

Maintenance, Management & Monitoring

Application Maintenance, Management & Monitoring

Capability Microsoft VMware

Centralized Patching & Maintenance Yes Yes

Non-Virtualized Infrastructure Management Yes Yes1

Integrated Service Management Yes Lacks CMDB2

Heterogeneous Automation Yes VMware Centric3

Deep Application Insight Yes Yes4

Integrated Dev-Ops Yes No5

1. Would require purchases outside of the vCloud Suite including vCloud Automation Center, vFabric Hyperic, vCenter Operations Management Suite Enterprise Edition

2. vCloud Automation Center enables application owners or administrators to request infrastructure but vCAC lacks any form of true CMDB for complete ITIL/MOF IT

Service Management

3. VMware's vCenter Orchestrator has a limited set of plug-ins, of which the vast majority are VMware centric. No mention of plug-ins for other enterprise management

systems and tools such as those from HP, IBM, BMC etc.

4. Remediation limited to VMware best practices thus lacking in application-specific remediation guidance

5. Lab Manager deprecated, with customers expected to upgrade to vCloud Director, which has no connections with Development IDE.

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-suite/compare.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-

virtualization/vcloud-automation-center/overview.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-automation-center/buy.html,

http://www.vmware.com/products/application-platform/vfabric-hyperic/buy.html, https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/categories/21/view_all,

http://www.vmware.com/products/labmanager/overview.html

Granular Workload

Protection

Physical or

Virtual

Generic Data

Source Protection

Centralized, Role-

Based Management

Backup to

Tape

Low-Cost

Disaster Recovery

Protection of Key Applications & Workloads

Protection of Key Applications & Workloads

Capability Microsoft VMware

Granular Workload Protection Yes No1

Physical & Virtual Protection Yes No1

3rd Party Integration Yes No2

Centralized Role-Based Management Yes Yes3

Tape Backup Yes No4

Integrated Disaster Recovery Yes Yes

1. VMware Data Protection offers no protection for the workloads within the virtual machine, simply focusing on the VM itself as the protection

unit and offers no protection of physical machines

2. VMware Data Protection is not extensible by 3rd parties

3. VMware Data Protection is capped at 10 appliances per vCenter with a maximum storage of 2TB/100 VMs per appliance.

4. VMware Data Protection offers no protection to tape media. Disk only

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Introduction-to-Data-Protection.pdf, http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-

51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vmware-data-protection-administration-guide-51.pdf

Fabric

Hypervisor

OS

Management

Application Frameworks

Cross-Platform Infrastructure Management

Capability Microsoft VMware

Multi-Hypervisor Management Yes Limited1

Comprehensive Guest OS Support Yes Yes2

3rd Party Management Integration Yes Limited3

Multiple Application Frameworks Yes Yes4

1. vCloud Automation Center focuses on provisioning VMs to alternative hypervisors, whilst the Multi-Hypervisor Manager plug-in for vCenter

offers only very basic capabilities

2. VMware do not produce any operating systems, and support is therefore focused not on the guest operating system itself, but instead, on

the VM Tools and hardware.

3. vCenter Orchestrator has a limited number of 3rd party plug-ins and vCenter Operations Management Suite requires the purchase of 3rd Party

adaptors to integrate.

4. Monitoring capabilities do extend to multiple frameworks but support for many frameworks is out of date - .NET 3.0 is the latest for instance.

Also, the monitoring is not connected to any true DevOps capability, and lacks remediation guidance around detected issues.

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/support/mhm/doc/vcenter-multi-hypervisor-manager-10-release-notes.html,

http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html,

vCloud – On-Premise(w/ Director)

vCloud - Hoster(w/ Director)

vCloud Connector

2.0

Amazon, Hyper-V,

Xen

vCloud Automation

Center

VMware vCloud Service, vCloud

Providers

vCloud Connector

2.0

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/10/15/vmware-or-microsoft-comparing-vsphere-5-5-and-windows-server-2012-r2-at-a-glance.aspx

http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category_search=all

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B353

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B352

http://www.datacentertcotool.com/