Matriz comparativa: Virtualización de servidores
En este documento podremos comparar las 3 opciones líderes en cuanto a la virtualización de servidores, podremos analizar y diferenciar entre todas las características que nos den los 3 productos de cada fabricante; la comparativa se basa en vSphere 5.1 de VMware, Hyper-V 2012 de Microsoft y XenServer 6 de Citrix.
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| Version | vSphere 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer 6 | ||||
| Edition | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| Assessment | Overview | vSphere 5.1 – Click Here For Overview | WS 2012 + SC 2012 SP1 (DC) – Click Here For Overview | ||||
| Maturity | 5.1: Sep 2012 (ESX: 2001/2002, ESXi: Dec-2007) | WS2012: Sep 2012, SC2012 Apr 2012 – SP1 Jan 2013 (initial Hyper-V: Jun 08, SCVMM Sep 08) | Xen – 2003, Citrix XenServer 2007, 5.6SP2 March 2011, v6: Sept 2011 | ||||
| Market Position | Leader (Position 1) | Leader (P2/2) | Leader (P2/3) | ||||
| Pricing | Virtualization ($) | 5.1 Ent+: $3,495/socket + S&S 1Y: $734 (B) or $874 (Prod), vSphere Desktop: $65/active desktop | Datacenter: $4,809 for (up to) 2 sockets | $5000/server+$3000 (support) | |||
| Management ($) | $4995(Std) + $1049(B) or $1249 (P), $1,495(Fnd) + $545(B) or $645(P) | System Center 2012 Datacenter: $3,607 or Standard $1,323 per managed endpoint (up to 2 CPU) | Free (XenCenter) | ||||
| Bundle/Kit Pricing ($) | See Enterprise+ Acceleration Kit | n/a | n/a | ||||
| Guest OS Licensing | One SLES subscription per active SnS | yes – unlimited OSEs (Windows Server vims) | No | ||||
Management |
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| Version | vSphere 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer 6 | ||||
| Edition | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| General | Central Management | Yes (vCenter Server + Web Client) | Yes (System Center 2012 / VMM) | Yes (XenCenter), SCVMM (new) | |||
| Virtual and Physical | No | Yes (All SC, Fabric Updates, Storage Management) | Limited | ||||
| RBAC / AD-Integration | Yes (vCenter and ESXi hosts) | Yes (SCVMM) | Yes (hosts/XenCenter) | ||||
| Cross-Vendor Mgmt | Limited – Multi-Hypervisor manager (vCloud Automation Center/DynamicOps) | Improved (VMware, Citrix) | Web Self Service User Console | ||||
| Browser Based Mgmt | Yes enhanced Web Client (with SSO) | Limited (SSPs) | Web Self Service | ||||
| Adv. Operation Management | Yes, vCenter Operations Manager Foundation | Yes (SC Operations Manager) | Yes XenMotion (1) | ||||
| VM Mobility | Live Migration of VMs | Yes vMotion, Metro vMotion and ‘shared nothing’ vMotion (4-8 concurrent) | Yes (‘Unlimited’ Concurrent Live, outside clusters and ‘Shared Nothing’) | Yes XenMotion (1) | |||
| Migration Compatibility | Yes (EVC) | Yes (Processor Compatibility) | Yes (Heterogeneous Pools) | ||||
| Maintenance Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Automated Live Migration | Yes (DRS) – CPU, Mem, Storage (now compatible with vCD – NEW) | Yes – Dynamic Optimization (CPU, mem, disk I/O, Net I/O) | Yes (WB) – CPU, Mem, D, N | ||||
| Power Management | Yes (DPM) | Yes – Power Optimization | Yes | ||||
| Storage Migration | Yes (Storage vMotion); up to 4 parallel operations (NEW) | Yes | No (offline only) | ||||
| HA/DR | Cluster Size | 32 host / 4000 vms | 64 nodes / 8000 vims | 16/800 | |||
| Integrated HA (Restart vm) | Yes (VMware HA) – incl Storage heartbeat | Yes (vm Affinity, Prioritization) | Yes | ||||
| Automatic VM Reset | Yes (VMware HA) | Yes (Heartbeat) | No | ||||
| VM Lockstep Protection | Yes (Fault Tolerance) | No | No | ||||
| Application/Service HA | HA Application Monitoring API | Yes | No | ||||
| Site Failover | vSphere Replication (SRM fee-based Add-On) | Hyper-V Replica | Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control) | ||||
| Updates and Backup | Hypervisor Upgrades | Yes (Update Manager) | Yes (Fabric Updates, CAU) | Limited (rolling upgrade wizard – new) | |||
| VM Patching | Limited (Update Manager) | Yes (WSUS, SCCM, VMST) | No | ||||
| Live VM Snapshot | Yes | Yes (Live Merge) | yes | ||||
| Backup Integration API | Yes (vStorage API Data Protection) | Yes (VSS API) | limited | ||||
| Integrated Backup | Yes (Data Protection – New) | Yes (WSB&DPM, incremental), | Yes (VMPR) | ||||
| Deployment | Automated Host Deployments | Yes – Auto Deploy (new: Stateless Caching & Stateful Installs) | Yes (bare metal through VMM) | No | |||
| VM Templates | Yes | Yes | Yes (templ + PVS) | ||||
| Tiered VM Templates | Yes (vApp/OVF) | Yes (Service Templates) | |||||
| Host Profiles | Yes (Host Profiles) – enhanced for Auto Deploy | Yes | No | ||||
| Storage Profiles | Yes (Profile-Driven Storage) | Yes (Storage Classifications) | No | ||||
| Other | Resource Pools | Yes | Yes (Host Groups) | No | |||
| P2V | Stand-alone only (Converter) | Yes | Yes (XenConvert) | ||||
| Service Portal / Catalogue | vCloud Suite, Promotional Upgrade (New) | Yes (VMM console, App Controller) | Web Self Service | ||||
| Orchestration / Workflows | Yes (vCenter Orchestrator) | Yes (SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr) | Yes (Workflow Studio) | ||||
| Security | 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 | SNMPv3 (NEW) +CIM, esxcli | Yes (WMI + PowerShell) | Yes (CIM, WSMAN)) | ||||
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| Version | vSphere 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer 6 | ||||
| Edition | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| General | Hypervisor Details/Size | ESXi only – 5.1 Build 799733 10 SEPT 2012 | Hyper-V R2 | XenServer 6 (Xen 4.1) | |||
| Host Config | Max Consolidation Ratio | 512vm, 2048 vcpu | 1024 vims/host, 2048 vCPUs/host | 75 (up to 130 – see details) | |||
| Max CPU – Host | 160 (Logical) | 320 Logical CPUs | 64 (logical) | ||||
| Max Cores per CPU | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | ||||
| Max Memory – Host | 2TB | 4TB | 1TB | ||||
| VM Config | Max vCPU per VM | 64 | up to 64 vCPU (Win) / 64 vCPU (Linux) | 16 (Win) / 32(Linux) | |||
| Max RAM per VM | 1TB | 1TB | 128GB | ||||
| Serial Ports | Yes (incl. vSPC) | yes | No | ||||
| Hot Add/Plug | Yes (CPU, Mem, Disk, NIC) | disks and memory (dynamic) only | Yes (disk, NIC) | ||||
| Storage | Supported Storage | DAS, NFS, FC, iSCSI, SSD for Swap, FCoE (HW&SW), 16Gb FC HBA (NEW) | SMB3 (new), virtual FC (new), SAS, SATA, iSCSI, FC, | DAS, SAS, iSCSI, NAS, FC | |||
| SAN Multipath | Yes (enhanced APD and PDL) | Yes (DSM and SMB Multichannel) | Yes (limited for SAS) | ||||
| Shared File System | Yes (VMFS v5) | Yes (CSV v2) | Yes (SR) | ||||
| Boot From SAN | Yes (FC, iSCSI, FCoE and SW FCoE – NEW) | Yes (iSCSI, diskless, FC) | Yes (iSCSI, FC) | ||||
| Boot from USB | Yes | No | No | ||||
| Virtual Disk Format | vmdk, raw disk (RDM) | .vhd – new (4KB sectors), vhd, pass-through (raw) | vhd, raw disk (LUN) | ||||
| Max Disk Size | 2TB (vmdk), up to 64TB RDM (physical compatibility) | 64TB (vhd), 2TB (vhd), 256TB+ (raw) | limited | ||||
| Thin Disk Provisioning | Yes (now with SE Sparse Disk – NEW) | Yes (Dynamic Disks, Trim – new) | limited | ||||
| NPIV Support | Yes (RDM only) | Yes (Virtual Fibre Channel) | No | ||||
| Linked Images | No (only VMware View and vCloud Director) | Yes (Differencing Disk) | Yes (clone, PVS, IntelliCache) | ||||
| SW Storage Replication | Yes (also without SRM – NEW) | Yes (Hyper-V Replica) | No | ||||
| Virtual SAN | No (vSphere Storage Appliance) | Yes (Storage Spaces) | No | ||||
| Storage Integration (API) | Yes (VASA, VAAI and VAMP) | SMI-S / SMP, ODX, Trim | Integrated StorageLink | ||||
| Storage QoS | Yes (SIOC) – incl. NFS – NEW | No | Basic | ||||
| Networking | Advanced Network Switch | Yes (vDS), Various Operational and Scalability improvements – NEW | Yes (Hyper-V Extensible Switch) | Yes (Fail-Save Mode – new) | |||
| NIC Teaming | Yes (LACP Support – NEW) | Yes | Yes | ||||
| VLAN | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| PVLAN | Yes | Yes | Yes (guests) | ||||
| IPv6 | Yes | Yes | Yes (guests) | ||||
| I/O Pass-Through | Yes (SR-IOV – NEW and VMDirectPath) | Yes – SRIOV (incl. Live Migration) | SR-IOV | ||||
| Jumbo Frames | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Offload Support | Yes (TSO, NetQueue, iSCSI) | Yes (D-VMQ, Ipsec Offload, SR-IOV ) | Yes (TSO) | ||||
| Network QOS | Yes (NetIOC) | Yes (max and min bandwidth) | Yes | ||||
| Traffic Monitoring | yes (Port Mirroring) | Yes (port mirroring) | |||||
| Memory | Dynamic / Over-Commit | Yes (Memory Ballooning) | Yes – Dynamic Memory (reclaim memory, Smart Paging – new) | Yes | |||
| Memory Page Sharing | Yes (Transparent Page Sharing) | No | No | ||||
| HW Memory Translation | Yes | Yes (SLAT) | Yes | ||||
| Interoperability | OVF Support | Yes | Yes (OVF Import/Export) | Yes, incl. vApp (new) | |||
| HW Compatibility | Comprehensive | Strong Windows Ecosystem | Improving | ||||
| Guest OS Support | Very Comprehensive | Closing the gap | Good | ||||
| Scripting / APIs | CIM / SMASH API, SDKs for web services, Perl, Power CLI etc | Yes (PowerShell 3, WMI API) | Yes (SDK, API, PowerShell) | ||||
| Cloud API | vCloud API | Service Provider Foundation API | CloudStack & OpenStack API | ||||
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| Version | vSphere 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer 6 | ||||
| Edition | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| Cloud | Secure Multi-Tenancy | Yes (vDC, vCloud Networking and Security) | Yes (Hyper-V Extensible Switch, Hyper-V Network Virtualization) – included | ||||
| Network Virtualization / SDN | Yes (VXLAN, Nicira) | Hyper-V Network Virtualization (IP Address Rewrite , GRE) – included in Server 2012 | |||||
| Private Cloud | vCloud Suite, Promotional Upgrade (New) | Hyper-V 2012 + System Center 2012 (CIS Suite Datacenter) – included | |||||
| Public Cloud | vCloud Datacenter Services, vCloud Powered Services, Cloud Foundry (PaaS) | Windows Azure (PaaS, IaaS, Big Data, Media) – Separate Offering! | |||||
| Hybrid Cloud Connectors | vCloud Connector | App Controller – included | |||||
| VDI | Desktop Virtualization | VMware View (CBRC, 32 node clusters, Persona for physical etc – NEW) | RDS (pooled, personal, sessions, User Profile Disk, RemoteFX) – included | XenDesktop, XenClient, IntelliCache | |||
| Graphics Capability | Physical vGPU – NEW, virtual GPU, DirectX 9 _ OpenGL 2.x | RemoteFX (WAN, Adaptive Graphics, USB Redirection, Media Remoting, vGPU) – included | HDX, HDX3D Pro, GPU Passthrough | ||||
| Read Cache | Host Cache / CBRC | CSV Cache – included | IntelliCache | ||||
| End-User Portal | Horizon App Manager | RDS Web Access – included | CloudGateway | ||||
| Persona & Layering | View Persona and Mirage | User Profile Disk (included) and UEV (MDOP – Fee) | |||||
| Published Desktops / Apps (Te | No | Yes – RDS RemoteApp and Desktop Sessions | |||||
| Other | Virtual SAN | No (vSphere Storage Appliance) | Storage Spaces – included with Server 2012 | No | |||
| Other | Application Management | VMware vFabric Application Performance Manager | SC Operations Manager – included with SC 2012 | EdgeSight Netscaler | |||
| Security | vCloud Networking and Security | MS Forefront + MS Ecosystem | Secure/Access Gateway | ||||
| Other | Workflow / Orchestration | Orchestrator (inlc.) | SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr – included with SC 2012 | Workflow Studio (incl.) | |||
| Other | Site Failover | Site Recovery Manager | Hyper-V Replica + 3rd party | Integrated Site Recovery (incl.) | |||
| Chargeback | vCenter Chargeback Manager | Hyper-V Resource Metering and Service Manager (included) | CloudPortal Business Manager | ||||
| Network Extensions | yes (IBM 5000v and Cisco Nexus 1000v) | Hyper-V Extensible Switch – 3rd party Extensions | NetScaler, Branch Repeater | ||||
