One of my sessions at Microsoft Summit 2013

1. Microsoft Summit 2013
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Public & Private Cloud Track

3. Tudor Damian
IT Solutions Specialist
Virtual Machine MVP
tudy.tel

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. Scalability &
Performance
Security &
Multitenancy
Flexible
Infrastructure
High Availability
& Resiliency

10. Scalability,
Performance
& Density

11. 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 -
Cluster
Maximum Nodes 16 64 4×
Maximum VMs 1,000 8,000 8×

12. System Resource Hyper-V (2012 R2)
vSphere
Hypervisor
vSphere 5.1 Ent+ vSphere 5.5 Ent+
Host
Logical Processors 320 160 160 320
Physical Memory 4TB 32GB1 2TB 4TB
Virtual CPUs per
Host
2,048 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
Cluster
Maximum 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 VM
3 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

13. Virtual Fibre
Channel
Connect a VM directly to FC
SAN without sacrificing
features
64TB Virtual
Hard Disks
Increased capacity,
protection & alignment
optimization
Native 4K
Disk Support
Take advantage of enhanced
density and reliability
Online
VHDX Resize
Increased flexibility for virtual
disks, with support for grow
& shrink operations

14. Boot from
USB Disk
Flexible deployment option
for diskless servers
(Hyper-V Server)
Offloaded
Data Transfer
Offloads storage-intensive
tasks to the SAN
Storage
Spaces
Storage resiliency, availability
& performance with
commodity hardware

15. 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 above
2 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
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

16. Dynamic
Memory
Increased control for
greater virtual machine
consolidation
Resource
Metering
Track historical data for
virtual machine usage
Network
QoS
Consistent level of
network performance
based on SLAs
Storage
QoS
Control allocation of
Storage IOPS between
VM Disks

17. 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

18. Security &
Multitenancy

19. 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 Connectivity
Virtual machine
Network
application
Virtual network
adapter
Hyper–V host
Hyper-V
Extensible Switch
Physicalnetwork
adapter
Physicalswitch
Virtual machine
Network
application
Virtual network
adapter
Virtual machine
Network
application
Virtual network
adapter

20. 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 & Forwarding Parent 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

21. 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 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/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

22. 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

23. • 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 securely
mapped to VM
• This bypasses the Hyper-V Extensible
Switch
• Full support for Live Migration
Integrated with NIC hardware
for increased performance
Virtual Machine
VM Network Stack
Synthetic NIC
Hyper-V
Extensible Switch
SR-IOV NIC VF
Traffic Flow
Virtual Function
VF
Traffic Flow
VF

24. VHDX on Traditional LUN
E: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 Volumes
C:ClusterStorageVolume1VM4
VHDX on File Server
FileServerVM3
VHDX on DAS
F:VM1

25. 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

26. Flexible
Infrastructure

27. 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
Comprehensive feature
support for virtualized Linux
Server Hardware
IndependentHardware
VendorDrivers
Windows
Kernel
Virtual Service
Provider
Configuration
Store
Worker
Processes
ManagementService
WMI Provider
Hyper-V

28. 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
• Export a full cloned virtual machine
from 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

29. Live
Migration
Live Storage
Migration
Shared-Nothing
Live Migration

30. • 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 R2 2012 Cluster Nodes 2012 R2 Cluster Nodes
Hyper-V Cluster Upgrade without Downtime

31. • 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

32. • 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
• VM’s packet encapsulated for
transmission 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

33. • 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
Bridge Between VM Networks
& Physical Networks

34. Capability
Hyper-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,

35. High
Availability &
Resiliency

36. • 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

37. • 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
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

38. • 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
Guest Clustering No Longer
Bound to Storage Topology Flexible choices for placement of Shared VHDX

39. • 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
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

40. Capability
Hyper-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

41. 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

42. • 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

43. 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, 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
Replicate to 3rd Location for
Extra Level of Resiliency

44. Capability
Hyper-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

45. 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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 contain
the desired task, admins can add their on IP
through scripts, or PowerCLI
Automating key tasks within
the vSphere environment
vSphere Integration Pack - Activities

55. Constructing,
Delivering &
Consuming Apps
Maintaining,
Managing &
Monitoring Apps
Protection of Key
Applications &
Workloads

56. 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

57. 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

58. Centralized
Maintenance
Extends beyond the
private cloud
Integrated Service
Management
Powerful, relevant
automation
Deep application
insight
Connecting
Dev-Ops
Maintenance, Management & Monitoring

59. 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

60. 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

61. 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

62. Fabric
Hypervisor
OS
Management
Application Frameworks

63. 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,

65. 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

66. 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/