Tudor Damian - Comparing Microsoft Cloud with VMware Cloud

Tudor Damian
IT Solutions Specialist
Virtual Machine MVP

tudy.tel

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-microsoftcomparing-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

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

Self-Service

vCloud Director

App Controller

Service Mgmt.

vCloud Automation Center

Service Manager

Protection

vSphere Data Protection

Data Protection Manager

Automation

vCenter Orchestrator

Orchestrator

Monitoring

vCenter Ops Mgmt. Suite

Operations Manager

VM Management

vCenter Server
vFabric Application Director

Virtual Machine Manager

Hypervisor

vSphere Hypervisor

Hyper-V

Virtual Machine Manager & vSphere
Day to Day VM Management
with Virtual Machine Manager
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, HotAdd and adds its own capabilities on top – DO, PO,
PRO, intelligent placement, Private Clouds etc.

App Controller & vSphere
Self-Service access to VMs
running on 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 individuallevel 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

Operations Manager & vSphere
Partnering with Veeam to
deliver deep vSphere insight
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

Orchestrator & vSphere
Automating key tasks within
the vSphere environment
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 contain
the desired task, admins can add their on IP
through scripts, or PowerCLI

vSphere Integration Pack - Activities

Constructing,
Delivering &
Consuming Apps

Maintaining,
Managing &
Monitoring Apps

Protection of Key
Applications &
Workloads

Construction, Delivery & Consumption
Standardized
VM Templates

Roles & Features
Application Layers

VM Templates 2.0:
Service Templates

Deployment
into clouds

Role-based
Self Service

Controlled
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.
2.
3.
4.

vCloud Automation Center allows for the requesting of private cloud resources but lacks a true CMDB capability in box.
Each VMware VM template will have it’s own VMDK, even if the template varies only slightly in it’s configuration options.
No alternatives to Server Application Virtualization (App-V) thus relies on regular installation methods or inflexible scripts.
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

Maintenance, Management & Monitoring
Centralized
Maintenance

Extends beyond the
private cloud

Integrated Service
Management

Powerful, relevant
automation

Deep application
insight

Connecting
Dev-Ops

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.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Would require purchases outside of the vCloud Suite including vCloud Automation Center, vFabric Hyperic, vCenter Operations Management Suite Enterprise Edition
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
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.
Remediation limited to VMware best practices thus lacking in application-specific remediation guidance
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/datacentervirtualization/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

Protection of Key Applications & Workloads
Granular Workload
Protection

Physical or
Virtual

Generic Data
Source Protection

Centralized, RoleBased Management

Backup to
Tape

Low-Cost
Disaster Recovery

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.
2.
3.
4.

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
VMware Data Protection is not extensible by 3rd parties
VMware Data Protection is capped at 10 appliances per vCenter with a maximum storage of 2TB/100 VMs per appliance.
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/vsphere51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vmware-data-protection-administration-guide-51.pdf

Application Frameworks
Management
OS
Hypervisor
Fabric

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.
2.
3.

4.

vCloud Automation Center focuses on provisioning VMs to alternative hypervisors, whilst the Multi-Hypervisor Manager plug-in for vCenter
offers only very basic capabilities
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.
vCenter Orchestrator has a limited number of 3rd party plug-ins and vCenter Operations Management Suite requires the purchase of 3 rd Party
adaptors to integrate.
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,

VMware
vCloud
Service,
vCloud
Providers

vCloud
Automation
Center

vCloud
Connector
2.0

vCloud – On-Premise
(w/ Director)

vCloud
Connector
2.0

Amazon,
Hyper-V,
Xen

vCloud - Hoster
(w/ Director)

Scalability &
Performance

Security &
Multitenancy

Flexible
Infrastructure

High Availability
& Resiliency

Scalability,
Performance
& Density

System Resource

64

320

5×

Physical Memory

1TB

4TB

4×

512

2,048

4×

Virtual CPUs per VM

4

64

16×

64GB

1TB

16×

Active VMs per Host

384

1,024

2.7×

Guest NUMA
Cluster

Improvement Factor

Virtual CPUs per Host

VM

Hyper-V (2012 R2)

Logical Processors

Host

Hyper-V (2008 R2)

No

Yes

-

Maximum Nodes

16

64

4×

1,000

8,000

8×

Memory per VM

Maximum VMs

vSphere
Hypervisor

vSphere 5.1 Ent+

vSphere 5.5 Ent+

320

160

160

320

Physical Memory

4TB

32GB1

2TB

4TB

Virtual CPUs per
Host

2,048

2,048

2,048

4,096

64

8

642

642

1TB

32GB1

1TB

1TB

1,024

512

512

512

Guest NUMA

Host

Hyper-V (2012 R2)

Logical Processors

System

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Maximum Nodes

64

N/A3

32

32

8,000

N/A3

4,000

4,000

Resource

Virtual CPUs per VM
Memory per VM

VM

Active VMs per Host

Cluster

Maximum VMs

1 Host

physical memory is capped at 32GB thus maximum VM memory is also restricted to 32GB usage.
5.x 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 VM
3 For clustering/high availability, customers must purchase vSphere
2 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-TechnicalWhitepaper.pdf and http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html

Virtual Fibre
Channel

Native 4K
Disk Support

64TB Virtual
Hard Disks

Online
VHDX Resize

Connect a VM directly to FC
SAN without sacrificing
features

Take advantage of enhanced
density and reliability

Increased capacity,
protection & alignment
optimization

Increased flexibility for virtual
disks, with support for grow
& shrink operations

Boot from
USB Disk

Offloaded
Data Transfer

Storage
Spaces

Flexible deployment option
for diskless servers
(Hyper-V Server)

Offloads storage-intensive
tasks to the SAN

Storage 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

256TB+3

64TB

64TB

Offloaded Data Transfer

Yes

No

Yes (VAAI)4

Boot from USB

Yes

Yes

Yes

Tiered Storage Pooling

Yes

No

No

Maximum Pass Through Disk Size

vStorage API for Multipathing (VAMP) is only available in Enterprise & Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 5.1 and above
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 files
3 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 size
4 vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is only available in Enterprise & Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 5.1 and above
1
2

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
Memory

Resource
Metering

Increased control for
greater virtual machine
consolidation

Track historical data for
virtual machine usage

Network
QoS

Storage
QoS

Consistent level of
network performance
based on SLAs

Control 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
2 Quality

vCenter, Resource Metering in the vSphere Hypervisor is only available on an individual host by host basis.
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

Layer-2 Network Switch for
Virtual Machine Connectivity
Granular In-box Capabilities
•

ARP/ND Poisoning (spoofing)
protection

•

DHCP Guard protection

•

Trunk Mode to VMs

•

Network Traffic Monitoring

•

Isolated (Private) VLAN (PVLANs)

•

PowerShell & WMI Interfaces for
extensibility

Virtual machine

Virtual machine

Network
application

Virtual machine

Network
application
Virtual network
adapter

Virtual network
adapter

Network
application
Virtual network
adapter

Virtual Port ACLs

•

Hyper–V host

Hyper-V
Extensible Switch
Physical network
adapter

Physical switch

Build Extensions for Capturing,
Filtering & Forwarding
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

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine

Parent Partition
VM NIC

Host NIC
Virtual Switch
Extension Protocol
Capture Extensions
Extension A
Filtering Extensions
Extension C
Forwarding Extension
Extension D
Extension Miniport

Physical NIC
Hyper-V Extensible Switch architecture

VM NIC

Capability

Hyper-V (2012 R2)

vSphere Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5 Ent+

Yes

No

Replaceable1

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

Extensible vSwitch
Confirmed Partner Extensions

1 The

vSphere Distributed Switch (required for PVLAN capability) is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5.x 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 purchases
3 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/technicalresources/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/vshieldapp/features.html and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9902/data_sheet_c78-492971.html

Dynamic
VMq

Dynamically span multiple CPUs when processing
virtual machine network traffic

IPsec Task
Offload

Offload IPsec processing from within virtual machine,
to physical network adaptor, enhancing performance

Virtual Receive
Side Scaling

Scale a VM's send & receive side traffic to multiple virtual
processors, increasing performance whilst reducing bottlenecks

SR-IOV
Support

Map virtual function of an SR-IOV capable physical network
adaptor, directly to a virtual machine

Integrated with NIC hardware
for increased performance
•

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

•

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

VM Network Stack

More direct hardware path for I/O

•

Virtual Machine

•

SR-IOV capable physical NICs contain
virtual functions that are securely
mapped to VM

•

This bypasses the Hyper-V Extensible
Switch

•

Synthetic NIC

Virtual Function

Hyper-V
Extensible Switch

SR-IOV NIC

VF

VF

VF

Full support for Live Migration
Traffic Flow

Traffic Flow

In-box Disk Encryption to
Protect Sensitive Data

VHDX on Traditional LUN
E:VM2

Data Protection, built in
•

Supports Used Disk Space Only
Encryption

•

Integrates with TPM chip

•

VHDX on DAS
F:VM1

Network Unlock & AD Integration

Multiple Disk Type Support
•

Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

•

Traditional SAN LUN

•

Cluster Shared Volumes

•

Windows Server 2012 File Server Share

VHDX on Cluster Shared Volumes
C:ClusterStorageVolume1VM4

VHDX on File Server
FileServerVM3

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)
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:

2 VMware’s

•
•
•
•

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

Comprehensive feature
support for virtualized Linux
Significant Improvements in
Interoperability
•

Multiple supported Linux distributions
and 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

Configuration
Store

Worker
Processes

WMI Provider
Management Service

Windows
Kernel

Virtual Service
Provider

Independent Hardware
Vendor Drivers

Hyper-V
Server Hardware

Duplication of a Virtual
Machine whilst Running
Export a clone of a running VM

•

Point-time image of running VM
exported to an alternate location

•

Useful for troubleshooting VM
without downtime for primary VM

Export from an existing checkpoint

VM1 VM2

1

•

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

2

•

Checkpoints automatically merged into
single virtual disk

3
4

Live
Migration

Live Storage
Migration

Shared-Nothing
Live Migration

Simplified upgrade process
from 2012 to 2012 R2
•

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

Hyper-V Cluster Upgrade without Downtime
2012 Cluster Nodes

2012 R2 Cluster Nodes

Network Isolation & Flexibility
without VLAN Complexity
•

Secure Isolation for traffic segregation,
without VLANs

•

Blue Network

Red Network

VM migration flexibility & Seamless
Integration

10.10.10.10 10.10.10.11

10.10.10.12

10.10.10.10 10.10.10.11

10.10.10.12

Key Concepts
•

Provider Address – Unique IP addresses
routable on physical network

•

VM Networks – Boundary of isolation
between different sets of VMs

Network/VSID

Provider Address

Customer Address

Blue (5001)

192.168.2.10

10.10.10.10

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

Blue (5001)

192.168.2.10

10.10.10.11

Blue (5001)

192.168.2.12

10.10.10.12

Policy Table – maintains relationship
between different addresses & networks

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

•

•

192.168.2.10

192.168.2.11

192.168.2.12

192.168.2.13

192.168.2.14

Network Isolation & Flexibility
without VLAN Complexity
•

Network Virtualization using Generic
Route Encapsulation uses
encapsulation & tunneling

•

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

•

VM traffic within the same VSID routable
over different physical subnets

•

Network Virtualization is part of the
Hyper-V Switch

10.10.10.10

GRE Key
(5001)

MAC

Same Customer
Network & VSID

10.10.10.10 ->
10.10.10.11

10.10.10.11

VM’s packet encapsulated for
transmission over physical network

•

192.168.2.10 ->
192.168.5.12

192.168.2.10

192.168.5.12
Different Subnets

Bridge Between VM Networks
& Physical Networks
•

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-encapsulates
NVGRE packets

•

Multitenant aware NAT for
Internet access

Hyper-V
(2012 & R2)

vSphere
Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5
Enterprise Plus

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

Capability

VM Live Migration

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

Integrated Solution for
Resilient Virtual Machines
•

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

Cluster Dynamic Quorum Configuration

Complete Flexibility for
Deploying App-Level HA
•

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, & AntiAffinityClassNames
help ensure optimal operation

Guest Cluster running on a Hyper-V Cluster
node supported with Live Migration
Guest cluster nodesrestarts on physical host failure

Guest Clustering No Longer
Bound to Storage Topology
•

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

•

VM sees shared virtual SAS disk

•

Unrestricted number of VMs can
connect to a shared VHDX file

•

Utilizes SCSI-persistent reservations

•

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

•

Supports both Dynamic and Fixed VHDX

Flexible choices for placement of Shared VHDX

Ensure Optimal VM Placement
and Restart Operations
•

Failover Priority ensures certain VMs
start before others on the cluster

•

Affinity rules allow VMs to reside on
certain hosts in the cluster

•

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

•

AntiAffinityClassNames exposed
through VMM as Availability Set

Hyper-V cluster with related VMs apart
Upon failover, VMs restart in prioritynode
Anti-Affinity keeps VMs on each order

Hyper-V
(2012 & R2)

vSphere
Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5
Enterprise Plus

Yes

No1

Yes2

64 Nodes

N/A

32 Nodes

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

Capability
Integrated High Availability
Maximum Cluster Size
Maximum VMs per Cluster

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-applicationmonitoring-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+

64

N/A1

32

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

Nodes per Cluster
VMs per Cluster

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-6BD834AE69BB-4D0E-B0B6-7E176907E0C7.html, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037959

Replicate Hyper-V VMs from a
Primary to a Replica site
• 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

Once replicated, changes enabled, VMs chosen frequency
Once Hyper-V Replica is replicated onon secondary site
Upon site failure, VMs can be started begin replication

Replicate to 3rd Location for
Extra Level of Resiliency
•

Once a VM has been successfully
replicated to the replica site, replica
can 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

Replication canconfigured fromthe 1st replica to a 3rd site
Replication be enabled on primary to secondary

Hyper-V
(2012 & R2)

vSphere
Hypervisor

vSphere 5.5
Enterprise Plus

Incremental Backup

Yes

No1

Yes1

Inbox VM Replication

Yes

No1

Yes1

Capability

Replication Capability

Hyper-V Replica

vSphere Replication

Inbox with Hypervisor

Virtual Appliance

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

Yes, 15 points

No

Yes, PowerShell, HVRM

No, SRM

Architecture
Replication Type

Point in Time Recovery
Orchestration

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,

Scalability,
Performance
& Density

Security &
Multitenancy

Flexible
Infrastructure

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

High
Availability
& Resiliency
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

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/10/15/vmware-or-microsoft-comparing-vsphere-5-5-and-windowsserver-2012-r2-at-a-glance.aspx
http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category_search=all

http://www.datacentertcotool.com/

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