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Virtualization Comparision 2013
Virtualization Comparision 2013
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Show-Stoppers - Review Section: This section will help you identify potential Show-Stoppers i.e. features that are important to you but unsupported by the listed product. Matrix
General
Version Edition Assessment
Overview
vSphere 5.1 - Click Here For Overview RHEV 3.2 - Click Here For Details WS 2012 + SC 2012 XenServer 6.2 - Click SP1 (DC) - Click Here For Here For Details Overview
vSphere 5.1
RHEV 3.2
Hyper-V 2012
XenServer 6.2
Evaluation Panel
Enterprise Plus
RHEV
DataCenter
Commercial Edition
Maturity
Release Dates RHEV 3.2 Release Release Dates 6.2 Release Date: June vSphere 5.1: Sep 2012 Date: June 2013 (RHEV WS2012: Sep 2012, 2013 (Xen - 2003, Citrix (ESX: 2001/2002, ESXi: 3.1 - Dec 2012, RHEV 2.1 SC2012 Apr 2012 - SP1 XenServer 2007, 5.6SP2 Dec-2007) - Nov 2009, 2.2: Aug Jan 2013 (initial Hyper-V: March 2011, v6: Sep 2011, 2010, RHEV 3.0: Jan Jun 08, SCVMM Sep 08) 6.1: Sep 2012) 2012) Leader (Position 1) One of the 6 players in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2012 ('Niche Player' Quadrant) - Click here for details: Leader' Quadrant (behind VMware) Challenger' Quadrant (behind VMware and MS)
Market Position
Pricing
Virtualization ($)
5.1 Ent+: RHEV 3.2 Premium: Datacenter: $4,809 for $3,495/socket + S&S 1Y: $1,498/socket-pair/year (up to) 2 sockets $734 (B) or $874 (Prod), RHEV 3.2 Standard: vSphere Desktop: $998/socket-pair/year $65/active desktop (Includes RHEV Desktop NEW!) Open Source (free) or commercial: Annual: $500 / socket, Perpetual: $1250 / socket (incl. SA and support)
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Management
(Back to Top) Version Edition General
Central Management
Yes (vCenter Server + Web Client) Yes (REV-M), third-party plug-in framework - NEW Yes (System Center 2012 / VMM) Yes (XenCenter), SCVMM (deprecated feature)
Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2
Enterprise Plus
RHEV
DataCenter
Commercial Edition
No
No
Yes (vCenter and ESXi hosts) Limited - MultiHypervisor manager (vCloud Automation Center/DynamicOps)
Yes (SCVMM)
Yes (hosts/XenCenter)
No (Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure & Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack)
Limited (SSPs)
No (CloudForms)
No
VM Patching
No
Yes
Yes
yes
Limited
Limited
No
No (Retired)
Deployment
Automated Host Deployments
Yes - Auto Deploy (new: Stateless Caching & Stateful Installs) No Yes (bare metal through VMM) No
Yes vApp
Yes (Host Profiles) enhanced for Auto Deploy Yes (Profile-Driven Storage)
Yes
No
No
No
Other
Resource Pools P2V Self Service Portal
Yes No Yes (Host Groups) No
Yes
No (CloudForms)
Yes (ESXi Firewall, vShield Zones and vShield Endpoint - NEW), vCloud Networking and Security NEW (not included)
Windows Security, Hyper-V Extensible Switch (DNSSEC, PVLANs, port ACLs, BitLocker etc.)
Yes
Systems Management
VM Mobility and
Evaluation Panel
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HA
(Back to Top) Version Edition VM Mobility
Live Migration of VMs
Yes vMotion, Metro vMotion and 'shared nothing' vMotion (4-8 concurrent) Yes (Live Migration 1/CPU core up to 5 max) Yes ('Unlimited' Concurrent Live, outside clusters and 'Shared Nothing') Yes XenMotion (1)
vSphere 5.1
RHEV 3.2
Hyper-V 2012
XenServer 6.2
Enterprise Plus
RHEV
DataCenter
Commercial Edition
Yes (EVC)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes (DRS) - CPU, Mem, Storage (now compatible with vCD NEW)
Yes (DPM)
Yes (Live Storage Yes (Fully supported vMotion); up to 4 parallel NEW) operations (NEW)
HA/DR
Cluster Size Integrated HA (Restart vm) Automatic VM Reset VM Lockstep Protection Application/Service HA Site Failover
32 host / 4000 vms 200 hosts/cluster 64 nodes / 8000 vims 16 hosts / resource pool
Yes (HA)
Yes
Yes (HA)
Yes (Heartbeat)
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Hyper-V Replica
Hypervisor
(Back to Top) Version Edition General
Hypervisor Details/Size
ESXi only - 5.1 Build 799733 10 SEPT 2012 512vm, 2048 vcpu KVM with RHEV-H or RHEL - details here No limit stated Hyper-V R2 XenServer 6.2: Xen 4.1.5 -based 500 vm (Win) or 650 (Linux) per host
Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2
Enterprise Plus
RHEV
DataCenter
Commercial Edition
Host Config
Max Consolidation Ratio Max CPU - Host Max Cores per CPU Max Memory Host
1024 vims/host, 2048 vCPUs/host
160 (Logical)
160 (logical)
160 (logical)
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
2TB
2TB
4TB
1TB
VM Config
Max vCPU per VM Max RAM per VM Serial Ports Hot Add/Plug
64 160 vCPU per VM up to 64 vCPU (Win) / 64 vCPU (Linux) 16 (Win) / 32(Linux)
1TB
2TB
1TB
128GB
No
Memory
Dynamic / Over-Commit Memory Page Sharing
Yes (Memory Ballooning) Yes (virtio) Yes - Dynamic Memory (reclaim memory, Smart Paging - new) No Yes (DMC)
Yes (KSM)
No
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HW Memory Translation
Yes
Yes
Yes (SLAT)
Yes
Interoperability
OVF Support
Yes Yes Yes (OVF Import/Export) Yes, incl. vApp
Comprehensive
Comprehensive
Improving
Very Comprehensive
Limited
Good
CIM / SMASH API, SDKs for web services, Perl, Power CLI etc vCloud API
Cloud API
Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2
Enterprise Plus
RHEV
DataCenter
Commercial Edition
SAN Multipath
Yes (SR)
No
No
.vhd - new (4KB vhd, raw disk (LUN) sectors), vhd, pass-through (raw)
2TB (vmdk), up to 64TB RDM (physical compatibility) Yes (now with SE Sparse Disk - NEW)
2TB
Yes
Yes
No
Linked Images
Yes
No
No
No (requires scripts)
Network-based only
Basic
Networking
Advanced Network Switch
Yes (vDS), Various Operational and Scalability improvements - NEW No Yes (Hyper-V Extensible Switch) Yes (Open vSwitch) distributed vSwitch is now deprecated
NIC Teaming
Yes
Yes
VLAN PVLAN
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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Yes
Guests only
Yes
SR-IOV
Yes TOE
Network QOS
Yes (NetIOC)
No (requires scripts)
Yes (outgoing)
Traffic Monitoring
Cloud (Extensions)
(Back to Top) Version Edition Cloud
Overview
vCloud Hybrid Service, vCloud Hybrid Service, Pivotal RHCI, CloudForms, OpenStack, RHEV, OpenShift - Fee Hyper-V + System Center, Azure CloudPlatform
Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2
Enterprise Plus
RHEV
DataCenter
Commercial Edition
Private Cloud
Hyper-V 2012 + RHEL+RHEV+CloudForms System Center 2012 (CIS - fee Suite Datacenter) included
CloudPlatform (fee)
Public Cloud
New: vCloud Hybrid OpenShift (PaaS), Windows Azure (PaaS, Service; vCloud Datacenter Cloud Access (RHEL, IaaS, Big Data, Media), Services, vCloud Powered MGR-Grid, JBoss, Storage Windows Azure Services, Cloud Foundry Server) through Red Hat Infrastructure Services, (PaaS) - fee; Certified Cloud Providers - Windows Azure Mobile fee Services (NEW) - Separ
CloudPlatform (fee)
Yes (vDC, vCloud Selinux, cgroups, Yes (Hyper-V Networking and Security - OpenStack compute and Extensible Switch, now VMware NSX) network, CloudForms - fee Hyper-V Network Separate (Fee-Based) Virtualization) - included Offering!
Yes VMware NSX Red Hat OpenStack Hyper-V Network SDN Controller + SDN Network Virtualization / SDN (Nicira, vCNS ) - Separate Networking (part of RHCI) Virtualization (IP Address Plugins (CloudPlatform (Fee-Based) Offering! Rewrite , GRE) - included in Server 2012 fee)
VDI (Extensions)
(Back to Top) Version Edition Desktop Virtualiza
Overview
Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2
Enterprise Plus
VMware Horizon Suite (fee)
RHEV
VDI now Included in RHEV
DataCenter
Remote Desktop Services (included in Server 2012)
Commercial Edition
Citrix Desktop Virtualization (incl. Project Avalon)
VDI / HVD
VDI in RHEV
RDS (pooled, personal, XenDesktop 7 - NEW sessions, User Profile Disk, (fee) RemoteFX) - included
No
No
Graphics Capability
SPICE (2D)
RemoteFX (WAN, Adaptive Graphics, USB Redirection, Media Remoting, vGPU) included
HDX, HDX3D Pro, shared GPU (OpenGL, DirectX and more) integrated with fee-based products
No
No
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fee
(MDOP - Fee)
Extensions - Other
(Back to Top) Version Edition Other
Virtual SAN
No (vSphere Storage Appliance) - fee Red Hat Storage - fee Storage Spaces included with Server 2012 no
Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2
Enterprise Plus
RHEV
DataCenter
Commercial Edition
Other
Application Management
VMware vFabric Application Performance Manager - Fee No SC Operations Manager - included with SC 2012 EdgeSight, Director (XenDesktop 7 - fee)
Security
Other
Workflow / Orchestration
Orchestrator (incl..) CloudForms Automate (ManageIQ) SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr - included with SC 2012 Hyper-V Replica (included) + 3rd party Workflow Studio
Other
Site Failover
Site Recovery Manager - fee Plugin framework Integrated Site Recovery (incl.)
Chargeback
Network Extensions
RoCE, LB - fee
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