Vergleichende Matrix: Server-Virtualisierung
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 von Citrix.
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| Version | vSphere (vSphäre) 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer (Englisch) 6 | ||||
| Auflage | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| Bewertung | Überblick | vSphere (vSphäre) 5.1 – Click Here For Overview | WS 2012 + SC 2012 SP1 (GLEICHSTROM) – Click Here For Overview | ||||
| Maturity | 5.1: Sep 2012 (ESX (Englisch): 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/Steckdose + S&S 1Y: $734 (B) oder $874 (Prod), vSphere Desktop: $65/active desktop | Rechenzentrum: $4,809 für (up to) 2 sockets | $5000/server+$3000 (support) | |||
| Management ($) | $4995(Std) + $1049(B) oder $1249 (P), $1,495(Fnd) + $545(B) oder $645(P) | System Center 2012 Rechenzentrum: $3,607 or Standard $1,323 per managed endpoint (up to 2 CPU) | Kostenlos (XenCenter (Englisch)) | ||||
| Bundle/Kit Pricing ($) | See Enterprise+ Acceleration Kit | n/a | n/a | ||||
| Guest OS Licensing | One SLES subscription per active SnS | Ja – unlimited OSEs (Windows Server vims) | Nein | ||||
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| Version | vSphere (vSphäre) 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer (Englisch) 6 | ||||
| Auflage | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| Allgemein | Central Management | Ja (vCenter Server + Web Client) | Ja (System Center 2012 / VMM) | Ja (XenCenter (Englisch)), SCVMM (new) | |||
| Virtual and Physical | Nein | Ja (All SC, Fabric Updates, Storage Management) | Limited | ||||
| RBAC / AD-Integration | Ja (vCenter and ESXi hosts) | Ja (SCVMM) | Ja (hosts/XenCenter) | ||||
| Cross-Vendor Mgmt | Limited – Multi-Hypervisor manager (vCloud Automation Center/DynamicOps) | Improved (VMware (Englisch), Citrix-Nationalpark) | Web Self Service User Console | ||||
| Browser Based Mgmt | Yes enhanced Web Client (with SSO) | Limited (SSPs) | Web Self Service | ||||
| Adv. Operation Management | Ja, vCenter Operations Manager Foundation | Ja (SC Operations Manager) | Yes XenMotion (1) | ||||
| VM Mobility | Live Migration of VMs | Yes vMotion, Metro vMotion and ‘shared nothing’ vMotion (4-8 concurrent) | Ja (‘Unlimited’ Concurrent Live, outside clusters and ‘Shared Nothing’) | Yes XenMotion (1) | |||
| Migration Compatibility | Ja (EVC) | Ja (Processor Compatibility) | Ja (Heterogeneous Pools) | ||||
| Maintenance Mode | Ja | Ja | Ja | ||||
| Automated Live Migration | Ja (DRS) – CPU, Mem, Lagerung (now compatible with vCD – NEW) | Ja – Dynamic Optimization (CPU, Mem, disk I/O, Net I/O) | Ja (WB) – CPU, Mem, D, N | ||||
| Power Management | Ja (DPM) | Ja – Power Optimization | Ja | ||||
| Storage Migration | Ja (Storage vMotion); up to 4 parallel operations (NEW) | Ja | Nein (offline only) | ||||
| HA/DR | Cluster Size | 32 Gastgeber / 4000 vms | 64 nodes / 8000 vims | 16/800 | |||
| Integrated HA (Restart vm) | Ja (VMware HA) – incl Storage heartbeat | Ja (vm Affinity, Prioritization) | Ja | ||||
| Automatic VM Reset | Ja (VMware HA) | Ja (Heartbeat) | Nein | ||||
| VM Lockstep Protection | Ja (Fehlertoleranz) | Nein | Nein | ||||
| Application/Service HA | HA Application Monitoring API | Ja | Nein | ||||
| Site Failover | vSphere Replication (SRM fee-based Add-On) | Hyper-V Replica | Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control) | ||||
| Updates and Backup | Hypervisor Upgrades | Ja (Update-Manager) | Ja (Fabric Updates, CAU) | Limited (rolling upgrade wizard – new) | |||
| VM Patching | Limited (Update-Manager) | Ja (WSUS (Englisch), SCCM, VMST) | Nein | ||||
| Live VM Snapshot | Ja | Ja (Live Merge) | Ja | ||||
| Backup Integration API | Ja (vStorage API Data Protection) | Ja (VSS API) | limited | ||||
| Integrated Backup | Ja (Data Protection – Neu) | Ja (WSB&DPM, incremental), | Ja (VMPR) | ||||
| Deployment | Automated Host Deployments | Ja – Auto Deploy (new: Stateless Caching & Stateful Installs) | Ja (bare metal through VMM) | Nein | |||
| VM Templates | Ja | Ja | Ja (templ + PVS) | ||||
| Tiered VM Templates | Ja (vApp/OVF) | Ja (Service Templates) | |||||
| Host-Profile | Ja (Host-Profile) – enhanced for Auto Deploy | Ja | Nein | ||||
| Storage Profiles | Ja (Profilgesteuerter Speicher) | Ja (Storage Classifications) | Nein | ||||
| Other | Resource Pools | Ja | Ja (Host Groups) | Nein | |||
| P2V | Stand-alone only (Converter) | Ja | Ja (XenConvert) | ||||
| Service Portal / Catalogue | vCloud Suite, Promotional Upgrade (Neu) | Ja (VMM console, App Controller) | Web Self Service | ||||
| Orchestration / Workflows | Ja (vCenter Orchestrator) | Ja (SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr) | Ja (Workflow Studio) | ||||
| Sicherheit | Ja (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.) | Ja | ||||
| Systems Management | SNMPv3 (NEW) +CIM, Es ist ganz einfach | Ja (WMI (Englisch) + PowerShell) | Ja (CIM, WSMAN)) | ||||
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| Version | vSphere (vSphäre) 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer (Englisch) 6 | ||||
| Auflage | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| Allgemein | Hypervisor Details/Size | ESXi only – 5.1 Bauen 799733 10 SEPT 2012 | Hyper-V R2 | XenServer (Englisch) 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 – Gastgeber | 160 (Logical) | 320 Logical CPUs | 64 (logical) | ||||
| Max Cores per CPU | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | ||||
| Max Memory – Gastgeber | 2TB | 4TB | 1TB | ||||
| VM Config | Max vCPU per VM | 64 | up to 64 vCPU-Verbindung (Gewinnen) / 64 vCPU-Verbindung (Linux (Englisch)) | 16 (Gewinnen) / 32(Linux (Englisch)) | |||
| Max RAM per VM | 1TB | 1TB | 128GB | ||||
| Serial Ports | Ja (incl. vSPC) | Ja | Nein | ||||
| Hot Add/Plug | Ja (CPU, Mem, Scheibe, NETZWERKKARTE) | disks and memory (dynamic) nur | Ja (Scheibe, NETZWERKKARTE) | ||||
| Lagerung | Supported Storage | DAS, NFS, FC, iSCSI (Englisch), SSD for Swap, FCoE (HW&SW), 16Gb FC HBA (NEW) | SMB3 (new), virtual FC (new), SAS, SATA, iSCSI (Englisch), FC, | DAS, SAS, iSCSI (Englisch), NAS, FC | |||
| SAN Multipath | Ja (enhanced APD and PDL) | Ja (DSM and SMB Multichannel) | Ja (limited for SAS) | ||||
| Shared File System | Ja (VMFS v5) | Ja (CSV v2) | Ja (SR) | ||||
| Boot From SAN | Ja (FC, iSCSI (Englisch), FCoE and SW FCoE – NEW) | Ja (iSCSI (Englisch), diskless, FC) | Ja (iSCSI (Englisch), FC) | ||||
| Boot from USB | Ja | Nein | Nein | ||||
| 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 | Ja (now with SE Sparse Disk – NEW) | Ja (Dynamic Disks, Trim – new) | limited | ||||
| NPIV Support | Ja (RDM only) | Ja (Virtual Fibre Channel) | Nein | ||||
| Linked Images | Nein (only VMware View and vCloud Director) | Ja (Differencing Disk) | Ja (clone, PVS, IntelliCache) | ||||
| SW Storage Replication | Ja (also without SRM – NEW) | Ja (Hyper-V Replica) | Nein | ||||
| Virtuelles SAN | Nein (vSphere Storage Appliance) | Ja (Storage Spaces) | Nein | ||||
| Storage Integration (API) | Ja (VASA, VAAI and VAMP) | SMI-S / SMP, ODX, Trim | Integrated StorageLink | ||||
| Storage QoS | Ja (SIOC) – incl. NFS – NEW | Nein | Grundlegend | ||||
| Vernetzung | Advanced Network Switch | Ja (vDS), Various Operational and Scalability improvements – NEW | Ja (Hyper-V Extensible Switch) | Ja (Fail-Save Mode – new) | |||
| NIC Teaming | Ja (LACP Support – NEW) | Ja | Ja | ||||
| VLAN | Ja | Ja | Ja | ||||
| PVLAN | Ja | Ja | Ja (guests) | ||||
| IPv6 | Ja | Ja | Ja (guests) | ||||
| I/O Pass-Through | Ja (SR-IOV – NEW and VMDirectPath) | Ja – SRIOV (incl. Live Migration) | SR-IOV | ||||
| Jumbo Frames | Ja | Ja | Ja | ||||
| Offload Support | Ja (TSO, NetQueue, iSCSI (Englisch)) | Ja (D-VMQ, Ipsec Offload, SR-IOV ) | Ja (TSO) | ||||
| Network QOS | Ja (NetIOC) | Ja (max and min bandwidth) | Ja | ||||
| Traffic Monitoring | Ja (Port Mirroring) | Ja (port mirroring) | |||||
| Gedächtnis | Dynamic / Over-Commit | Ja (Memory Ballooning) | Ja – Dynamic Memory (reclaim memory, Smart Paging – new) | Ja | |||
| Memory Page Sharing | Ja (Transparent Page Sharing) | Nein | Nein | ||||
| HW Memory Translation | Ja | Ja (SLAT) | Ja | ||||
| Interoperability | OVF Support | Ja | Ja (OVF Import/Export) | Ja, 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 | Ja (PowerShell 3, WMI API) | Ja (SDK (Englisch), API, PowerShell) | ||||
| Cloud API | vCloud API | Service Provider Foundation API | CloudStack & OpenStack API | ||||
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| Version | vSphere (vSphäre) 5.1 | Hyper-V 2012 | XenServer (Englisch) 6 | ||||
| Auflage | Enterprise Plus | DataCenter | Platinum Edition | ||||
| Wolke | Secure Multi-Tenancy | Ja (vDC, vCloud Networking and Security) | Ja (Hyper-V Extensible Switch, Hyper-V Network Virtualization) – included | ||||
| Network Virtualization / SDN | Ja (VXLAN, Nicira) | Hyper-V Network Virtualization (IP Address Rewrite , GRE) – included in Server 2012 | |||||
| Private Cloud | vCloud Suite, Promotional Upgrade (Neu) | 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, Strumpf) – Separate Offering! | |||||
| Hybrid Cloud Connectors | vCloud Connector | App Controller – included | |||||
| VDI | Desktop Virtualization | VMware-Ansicht (CBRC, 32 node clusters, Persona for physical etc – NEW) | RDS (pooled, personal, sessions, User Profile Disk, RemoteFX) – included | XenDesktop (Englisch), XenClient, IntelliCache | |||
| Graphics Capability | Physical vGPU – NEW, virtual GPU, DirectX 9 _ OpenGL 2.x | RemoteFX (FAHL, Adaptive Graphics, USB-Umleitung, 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 | Nein | Ja – RDS RemoteApp and Desktop Sessions | |||||
| Other | Virtuelles SAN | Nein (vSphere Storage Appliance) | Storage Spaces – included with Server 2012 | Nein | |||
| Other | Application Management | VMware vFabric Application Performance Manager | SC Operations Manager – included with SC 2012 | EdgeSight Netscaler | |||
| Sicherheit | 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 | Standortwiederherstellungs-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 | Ja (IBM 5000v and Cisco Nexus 1000v) | Hyper-V Extensible Switch – 3rd party Extensions | NetScaler (Englisch), Zweig-Repeater | ||||
