Hyper-V vs. VMware Comparison
Posted
08-16-2010 8:41 AM
by
Touhidul Islam
Hello, I hope this post will help you to select and understand two most powerful virtualization products.
Feature VMware VI Enterprise
- Bare-metal hypervisor ESX/ESXi
- Centralized hypervisor management Virtual Center
- VMware and Microsoft management None
- End-to-end OS monitoring None
- Application/service monitoring None
- Integrated physical and virtual management None
- Host/VM level optimization DRS
- Guest OS patching/management Available
- VM migration VMotion
- VM High availability/failover Virtual Center
- VM backup VCB (proxy only)
- Storage VMotion Available
Feature Microsoft WS08 R2 Hyper-V
- Bare-metal hypervisor Hyper-V
- Centralized hypervisor management SMSE (VMM)
- VMware and Microsoft management SMSE (VMM)
- End-to-end OS monitoring SMSE (Ops Mgr)
- Application/service monitoring SMSE (PRO)
- Integrated physical and virtual management SMSE
- Host/VM level optimization SMSE (PRO)
- Guest OS patching/management SMSE (SCCM)
- VM migration Live Migration
- VM High availability/failover WS08 Clustering
- VM backup SMSE (DPM)
- Storage VMotion Not yet with WS08 R2 Hyper-V
And VMware products for a virtualization infrastructure is much more costlier than Microsoft Hyper-V and system center product family.
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