Matriu comparativa: Virtualització de servidors

En aquest document podrem comparar les 3 opcions líders quant a la virtualització de servidors, podrem analitzar i diferenciar entre totes les característiques que ens donin els 3 productes de cada fabricant; la comparativa es basa en vSphere 5.1 de VMware, Hyper-V 2012 de Microsoft i XenServer 6 de Citrix.

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General

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: Setembre 2012 (ESX: 2001/2002, ESXi: Dec-2007) WS2012: Setembre 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) o $874 (Prod), vSphere Desktop: $65/active desktop Datacenter: $4,809 per (up to) 2 sockets $5000/server+$3000 (support)
Management ($) $4995(Std) + $1049(B) o $1249 (P), $1,495(Fnd) + $545(B) o $645(P) System Center 2012 Datacenter: $3,607 or Standard $1,323 per endpoint gestionat (up to 2 CPU) Free (XenCenter)
Preus de Bundle/Kit ($) Veure Kit d'Acceleració Enterprise+ n/a n/a
Llicència del SO convidat Una subscripció SLES per SnS actiu sí – OSEs il·limitats (Windows Server vims) No

Management

Version vSphere 5.1 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6
Edition Enterprise Plus DataCenter Platinum Edition
General Gestió Central Yes (vCenter Server + Client Web) Yes (System Center 2012 / VMM) Yes (XenCenter), SCVMM (nou)
Virtual i Físic No Yes (Tots SC, Actualitzacions de Fabric, Gestió d'Almacenament) Limitat
RBAC / Integració AD Yes (vCenter i hosts ESXi) Yes (SCVMM) Yes (hosts/XenCenter)
Gestió Multiproveïdor Limitat – Gestor Multi-Hipervisor (vCloud Automation Center/DynamicOps) Millorat (VMware, Citrix) Consola d'Usuari Web d'Autoservei
Gestió Basada en Navegador Sí, Client Web millor (amb SSO) Limitat (SSPs) Autoservei Web
Adv. Gestió d'Operacions Yes, vCenter Operations Manager Foundation Yes (SC Operations Manager) Sí XenMotion (1)
Mobilitat de VM Migració en Viu de VMs Sí vMotion, Metro vMotion i 'shared nothing'’ vMotion (4-8 concurrent) Yes ('Il·limitat’ Migració Concurrent en Viu, fora de clústers i 'Shared Nothing') Sí XenMotion (1)
Compatibilitat de Migració Yes (EVC) Yes (Compatibilitat de Processador) Yes (Pools Heterogenis)
Mode de Manteniment Yes Yes Yes
Automated Live Migration Yes (DRS) – CPU, Mem, Storage (now compatible with vCDNEW) Yes – Dynamic Optimization (CPU, mem, disk I/O, Net I/O) Yes (WB) – CPU, Mem, D, N
Gestió d'energia 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 (Actualitzacions de Fabric, CAU) Limitat (rolling upgrade wizard – nou)
VM Patching Limitat (Update Manager) Yes (WSUS, SCCM, VMST) No
Live VM Snapshot Yes Yes (Live Merge)
Backup Integration API Yes (vStorage API Data Protection) Yes (VSS API) limited
Integrated Backup Yes (Data Protection – Nou) Yes (WSB&DPM, incremental), Yes (VMPR)
Deployment Automated Host Deployments Yes – Auto Deploy (nou: 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 (Nou) Yes (VMM console, App Controller) Autoservei Web
Orchestration / Workflows Yes (vCenter Orchestrator) Yes (SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr) Yes (Workflow Studio)
Security Yes (ESXi Firewall, vShield Zones and vShield EndpointNEW), 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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Hypervisor

Version vSphere 5.1 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6
Edition Enterprise Plus DataCenter Platinum Edition
General Hypervisor Details/Size ESXi only – 5.1 Construir 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) 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 (nou), virtual FC (nou), 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 FCoENEW) Yes (iSCSI, diskless, FC) Yes (iSCSI, FC)
Boot from USB Yes No No
Virtual Disk Format vmdk, raw disk (RDM) .vhd – nou (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 DiskNEW) Yes (Dynamic Disks, Trim – nou) 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 SRMNEW) 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 improvementsNEW Yes (Hyper-V Extensible Switch) Yes (Fail-Save Mode – nou)
NIC Teaming Yes (LACP SupportNEW) Yes Yes
VLAN Yes Yes Yes
PVLAN Yes Yes Yes (guests)
IPv6 Yes Yes Yes (guests)
I/O Pass-Through Yes (SR-IOVNEW 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 sí (Port Mirroring) Yes (port mirroring)
Memory Dynamic / Over-Commit Yes (Memory Ballooning) Yes – Dynamic Memory (reclaim memory, Smart Paging – nou) 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 (nou)
HW Compatibility Comprehensive Strong Windows Ecosystem Improving
Guest OS Support Very Comprehensive Closing the gap Good
Guió / 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

Extensions (Cloud, VDI)

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 (Nou) 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, Mitjana) – Separate Offering!
Hybrid Cloud Connectors vCloud Connector App Controllerincluded
VDI Desktop Virtualization VMware View (CBRC, 32 node clusters, Persona for physical etcNEW) RDS (pooled, personal, sessions, User Profile Disk, RemoteFX) – included XenDesktop, XenClient, IntelliCache
Graphics Capability Physical vGPUNEW, 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 Cacheincluded IntelliCache
End-User Portal Horizon App Manager RDS Web Accessincluded CloudGateway
Persona & Layering View Persona and Mirage User Profile Disk (included) and UEV (MDOPFee)
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 Mgrincluded 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 sí (IBM 5000v i Cisco Nexus 1000v) Hyper-V Extensible Switch – 3extensions de tercers NetScaler, repetidor de sucursal

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