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67 67

187 187

54 54

4 102 0 102

of which Specified as "Must Have" "Nice to Have" "Irrelevant/Excluded" 0 102 0

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Category Total General Management VM Mobility and HA Hypervisor Network and Storage Cloud (Extensions) VDI (Extensions) Extensions - Other vSphere 5.1 193 8 48 30 44 53 0 10 0 RHEV 3.2 67 6 -4 16 34 21 0 -6 0 Hyper-V 2012 187 2 54 28 36 59 0 8 0 XenServer 6.2 54 7 -12 0 22 21 0 16 0

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Categorical summary of evaluated priorities and features

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Category General Management VM Mobility and HA Hypervisor Network and Storage Cloud (Extensions) VDI (Extensions) Extensions - Other Features Evaluated 7 22 12 17 24 6 7 7 Must have 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nice to have 28 88 48 68 96 24 28 28 Irrelevant/Excluded 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Strengths and Weaknesses

Supported feature by edition

Unsupported feature by edition

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Must have Nice to have

Show-Stoppers - Review Section: This section will help you identify potential Show-Stoppers i.e. features that are important to you but unsupported by the listed product. Matrix

General
Version Edition Assessment
Overview
vSphere 5.1 - Click Here For Overview RHEV 3.2 - Click Here For Details WS 2012 + SC 2012 XenServer 6.2 - Click SP1 (DC) - Click Here For Here For Details Overview

vSphere 5.1

RHEV 3.2

Hyper-V 2012

XenServer 6.2

Evaluation Panel

Enterprise Plus

RHEV

DataCenter

Commercial Edition

Maturity

Release Dates RHEV 3.2 Release Release Dates 6.2 Release Date: June vSphere 5.1: Sep 2012 Date: June 2013 (RHEV WS2012: Sep 2012, 2013 (Xen - 2003, Citrix (ESX: 2001/2002, ESXi: 3.1 - Dec 2012, RHEV 2.1 SC2012 Apr 2012 - SP1 XenServer 2007, 5.6SP2 Dec-2007) - Nov 2009, 2.2: Aug Jan 2013 (initial Hyper-V: March 2011, v6: Sep 2011, 2010, RHEV 3.0: Jan Jun 08, SCVMM Sep 08) 6.1: Sep 2012) 2012) Leader (Position 1) One of the 6 players in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2012 ('Niche Player' Quadrant) - Click here for details: Leader' Quadrant (behind VMware) Challenger' Quadrant (behind VMware and MS)

Market Position

Pricing
Virtualization ($)
5.1 Ent+: RHEV 3.2 Premium: Datacenter: $4,809 for $3,495/socket + S&S 1Y: $1,498/socket-pair/year (up to) 2 sockets $734 (B) or $874 (Prod), RHEV 3.2 Standard: vSphere Desktop: $998/socket-pair/year $65/active desktop (Includes RHEV Desktop NEW!) Open Source (free) or commercial: Annual: $500 / socket, Perpetual: $1250 / socket (incl. SA and support)

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Management
(Back to Top) Version Edition General
Central Management
Yes (vCenter Server + Web Client) Yes (REV-M), third-party plug-in framework - NEW Yes (System Center 2012 / VMM) Yes (XenCenter), SCVMM (deprecated feature)

Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2

Enterprise Plus

RHEV

DataCenter

Commercial Edition

Virtual and Physical

No

Third-party plug-in framework - NEW

Yes (Complete SC mgmt, Fabric Updates, Storage Management)

No

RBAC / AD-Integration Cross-Vendor Mgmt

Yes (vCenter and ESXi hosts) Limited - MultiHypervisor manager (vCloud Automation Center/DynamicOps)

Yes (AD and IPA)

Yes (SCVMM)

Yes (hosts/XenCenter)

No (Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure & Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack)

Improved (VMware, Citrix)

No (yes for VDI - fee)

Browser Based Mgmt Adv. Operation Management

Yes enhanced Web Client (with SSO)

Yes (RHEV-M, Power User Portal

Limited (SSPs)

No (Web Self Service: retired)

Yes, vCenter Operations Manager Foundation

No (CloudForms)

Yes (SC Operations Manager)

No

Updates and Backup

Hypervisor Upgrades
Yes (Update Manager) Limited Yes (Fabric Updates, CAU) Limited (rolling upgrade wizard - new), commercial version only!

VM Patching

Limited (Update Manager)

Yes (Red Hat Network)

Yes (WSUS, SCCM, VMST)

No

Live VM Snapshot Backup Integration API Integrated Backup

Yes

Yes

Yes (Live Merge)

yes

Yes (vStorage API Data Protection) Yes (Data Protection New)

Limited

Yes (VSS API)

Limited

No

Yes (WSB&DPM, incremental),

No (Retired)

Deployment
Automated Host Deployments
Yes - Auto Deploy (new: Stateless Caching & Stateful Installs) No Yes (bare metal through VMM) No

VM Templates Tiered VM Templates Host Profiles Storage Profiles

Yes Yes (vApp/OVF)

Yes No ('Deployables' for CloudForms - fee based cloud add-on) No

Yes Yes (Service Templates)

Yes vApp

Yes (Host Profiles) enhanced for Auto Deploy Yes (Profile-Driven Storage)

Yes

No

No

Yes (Storage Classifications)

No

Other
Resource Pools P2V Self Service Portal
Yes No Yes (Host Groups) No

Stand-alone only (Converter) No (vCloud Suite - fee)

V2V, P2V & Partners

Yes

No (XenConvert: retired), V2V: yes No (Web Self Service: retired)

User Portal (Quota information Tech Preview) - NEW

Yes (VMM console, App Controller, Service Manager/CSPP)

Orchestration / Workflows Security

Yes (vCenter Orchestrator)

No (CloudForms)

Yes (SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr)

Yes (Workflow Studio)

Yes (ESXi Firewall, vShield Zones and vShield Endpoint - NEW), vCloud Networking and Security NEW (not included)

SELinux, iptables, VLANs, Port Mirroring

Windows Security, Hyper-V Extensible Switch (DNSSEC, PVLANs, port ACLs, BitLocker etc.)

Yes

Systems Management

SNMPv3 (NEW) +CIM, esxcli

Agent-based (RHEL), CIM, SNMP

Yes (WMI + PowerShell)

Yes (API / SDKs, CIM)

VM Mobility and

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HA
(Back to Top) Version Edition VM Mobility
Live Migration of VMs
Yes vMotion, Metro vMotion and 'shared nothing' vMotion (4-8 concurrent) Yes (Live Migration 1/CPU core up to 5 max) Yes ('Unlimited' Concurrent Live, outside clusters and 'Shared Nothing') Yes XenMotion (1)

vSphere 5.1

RHEV 3.2

Hyper-V 2012

XenServer 6.2

Enterprise Plus

RHEV

DataCenter

Commercial Edition

Migration Compatibility Maintenance Mode Automated Live Migration

Yes (EVC)

Yes (except with CPU pass-through - NEW)

Yes (Processor Compatibility)

Yes (Heterogeneous Pools)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes (DRS) - CPU, Mem, Storage (now compatible with vCD NEW)

Yes (LB) - CPU only

Yes - Dynamic Optimization (CPU, mem, disk I/O, Net I/O)

No (Workload Balancing: retired)

Power Management Storage Migration

Yes (DPM)

Yes (Power Saving)

Yes - Power Optimization

No (Workload Balancing: retired)

Yes (Live Storage Yes (Fully supported vMotion); up to 4 parallel NEW) operations (NEW)

Yes (Live and 'Shared Nothing')

Yes (Storage XenMotion)

HA/DR
Cluster Size Integrated HA (Restart vm) Automatic VM Reset VM Lockstep Protection Application/Service HA Site Failover
32 host / 4000 vms 200 hosts/cluster 64 nodes / 8000 vims 16 hosts / resource pool

Yes (VMware HA) incl Storage heartbeat

Yes (HA)

Yes (vm Affinity, Prioritization)

Yes

Yes (VMware HA)

Yes (HA)

Yes (Heartbeat)

No

Yes (Fault Tolerance)

No

No

No

HA Application Monitoring API

No

Yes

No

vSphere Replication (SRM fee-based Add-On)

Not natively (but third-party plug-in framework - NEW)

Hyper-V Replica

Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control)

Hypervisor
(Back to Top) Version Edition General
Hypervisor Details/Size
ESXi only - 5.1 Build 799733 10 SEPT 2012 512vm, 2048 vcpu KVM with RHEV-H or RHEL - details here No limit stated Hyper-V R2 XenServer 6.2: Xen 4.1.5 -based 500 vm (Win) or 650 (Linux) per host

Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2

Enterprise Plus

RHEV

DataCenter

Commercial Edition

Host Config
Max Consolidation Ratio Max CPU - Host Max Cores per CPU Max Memory Host
1024 vims/host, 2048 vCPUs/host

160 (Logical)

160 (logical)

320 Logical CPUs

160 (logical)

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

2TB

2TB

4TB

1TB

VM Config
Max vCPU per VM Max RAM per VM Serial Ports Hot Add/Plug
64 160 vCPU per VM up to 64 vCPU (Win) / 64 vCPU (Linux) 16 (Win) / 32(Linux)

1TB

2TB

1TB

128GB

Yes (incl. vSPC)

No (serial console via hooks possible) Yes (disk, NIC)

yes (named pipe)

No

Yes (CPU, Mem, Disk, NIC)

disks and memory (dynamic) only

Yes (disk, NIC)

Memory
Dynamic / Over-Commit Memory Page Sharing
Yes (Memory Ballooning) Yes (virtio) Yes - Dynamic Memory (reclaim memory, Smart Paging - new) No Yes (DMC)

Yes (Transparent Page Sharing)

Yes (KSM)

No

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HW Memory Translation

Yes

Yes

Yes (SLAT)

Yes

Interoperability
OVF Support
Yes Yes Yes (OVF Import/Export) Yes, incl. vApp

HW Compatibility Guest OS Support Scripting / APIs

Comprehensive

Comprehensive

Strong Windows Ecosystem Closing the gap

Improving

Very Comprehensive

Limited

Good

CIM / SMASH API, SDKs for web services, Perl, Power CLI etc vCloud API

REST API, Python CLI, Hooks, SDK

Yes (PowerShell 3, WMI API)

Yes (SDK, API, PowerShell)

Cloud API

REST API, Deltacloud API

Service Provider Foundation API

CloudStack APIs, support for AWS API

Network and Storage

(Back to Top) Version Edition Storage
Supported Storage
DAS, NFS, FC, iSCSI, SSD for Swap, FCoE (HW&SW), 16Gb FC HBA (NEW) DAS, iSCSI, NFS (v4), FC, FCoE, SAS, POSIX (direct LUN and Cross Domain - New) SMB3 (new), virtual FC (new), SAS, SATA, iSCSI, FC, FCoE DAS, SAS, iSCSI, NAS, FC, FCoE

Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2

Enterprise Plus

RHEV

DataCenter

Commercial Edition

SAN Multipath

Yes (enhanced APD and PDL)

Yes (FC, iSCSI)

Yes (DSM and SMB Multichannel)

Yes (limited for SAS)

Shared File System Boot From SAN

Yes (VMFS v5)

SPM and support for shared FS Yes

Yes (CSV v2)

Yes (SR)

Yes (FC, iSCSI, FCoE and SW FCoE - NEW)

Yes (iSCSI, diskless, FC)

Yes (iSCSI, FC)

Boot from USB Virtual Disk Format

Yes vmdk, raw disk (RDM)

Yes RAW, Qcow2

No

No

.vhd - new (4KB vhd, raw disk (LUN) sectors), vhd, pass-through (raw)

Max Disk Size

2TB (vmdk), up to 64TB RDM (physical compatibility) Yes (now with SE Sparse Disk - NEW)

8TB (block), 'unlimited' (file)

64TB (vhd), 2TB (vhdx), 256TB+ (raw)

2TB

Thin Disk Provisioning NPIV Support

Yes

Yes (Dynamic Disks, Trim - new)

Yes (Limitations on block)

Yes (RDM only)

Yes

Yes (Virtual Fibre Channel)

No

Linked Images

No (only VMware View and vCloud Director)

Yes

Yes (Differencing Disk)

Yes - Clone on boot (new), clone, PVS, MCS

SW Storage Replication Virtual SAN

Yes (also without SRM - NEW)

No (Red Hat Storage Yes (Hyper-V Replica) integration - Tech preview)

No

No (vSphere Storage Appliance)

No (Red Hat Storage integration - Tech preview)

Limited (Storage Spaces)

No

Storage Integration (API) Storage QoS

Yes (VASA, VAAI and VAMP)

No (Third-party plug-in framework - NEW)

SMI-S / SMP, ODX, Trim

Integrated StorageLink (deprecated)

Yes (SIOC) - incl. NFS - NEW

No (requires scripts)

Network-based only

Basic

Networking
Advanced Network Switch
Yes (vDS), Various Operational and Scalability improvements - NEW No Yes (Hyper-V Extensible Switch) Yes (Open vSwitch) distributed vSwitch is now deprecated

NIC Teaming

Yes (LACP Support NEW)

Yes

Yes

Yes (incl. LACP New)

VLAN PVLAN

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes (limited for mgmt. traffic) No

Yes

No

Yes

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IPv6 I/O Pass-Through

Yes

Guests only

Yes

Yes (guests only)

Yes (SR-IOV - NEW and VMDirectPath)

Yes (with hooks)

Yes - SRIOV (incl. Live Migration)

SR-IOV

Jumbo Frames Offload Support

Yes Yes (TSO, NetQueue, iSCSI)

Yes TOE

Yes Yes (D-VMQ, Ipsec Offload, SR-IOV )

Yes Yes (TSO)

Network QOS

Yes (NetIOC)

No (requires scripts)

Yes (max and min bandwidth)

Yes (outgoing)

Traffic Monitoring

yes (Port Mirroring)

Yes (Port Mirroring)

Yes (port mirroring)

Yes (Port Mirroring)

Cloud (Extensions)
(Back to Top) Version Edition Cloud
Overview
vCloud Hybrid Service, vCloud Hybrid Service, Pivotal RHCI, CloudForms, OpenStack, RHEV, OpenShift - Fee Hyper-V + System Center, Azure CloudPlatform

Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2

Enterprise Plus

RHEV

DataCenter

Commercial Edition

Private Cloud

vCloud Suite - Separate (Fee-Based) Offering!

Hyper-V 2012 + RHEL+RHEV+CloudForms System Center 2012 (CIS - fee Suite Datacenter) included

CloudPlatform (fee)

Public Cloud

New: vCloud Hybrid OpenShift (PaaS), Windows Azure (PaaS, Service; vCloud Datacenter Cloud Access (RHEL, IaaS, Big Data, Media), Services, vCloud Powered MGR-Grid, JBoss, Storage Windows Azure Services, Cloud Foundry Server) through Red Hat Infrastructure Services, (PaaS) - fee; Certified Cloud Providers - Windows Azure Mobile fee Services (NEW) - Separ

CloudPlatform (fee)

Hybrid Cloud Connectors Secure MultiTenancy (IaaS)

vCloud Connector (Free Basic Edition)

CloudForms (ManageIQ) - fee

App Controller included

CloudBridge and NetScaler (fee)

Yes (vDC, vCloud Selinux, cgroups, Yes (Hyper-V Networking and Security - OpenStack compute and Extensible Switch, now VMware NSX) network, CloudForms - fee Hyper-V Network Separate (Fee-Based) Virtualization) - included Offering!

VLANs, OVS (included); Security Groups, custom networks (fee)

Yes VMware NSX Red Hat OpenStack Hyper-V Network SDN Controller + SDN Network Virtualization / SDN (Nicira, vCNS ) - Separate Networking (part of RHCI) Virtualization (IP Address Plugins (CloudPlatform (Fee-Based) Offering! Rewrite , GRE) - included in Server 2012 fee)

VDI (Extensions)
(Back to Top) Version Edition Desktop Virtualiza
Overview

Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2

Enterprise Plus
VMware Horizon Suite (fee)

RHEV
VDI now Included in RHEV

DataCenter
Remote Desktop Services (included in Server 2012)

Commercial Edition
Citrix Desktop Virtualization (incl. Project Avalon)

VDI / HVD

Horizon View (VMware View) - fee

VDI in RHEV

RDS (pooled, personal, XenDesktop 7 - NEW sessions, User Profile Disk, (fee) RemoteFX) - included

Published Desktops / Apps (Te

No

No

Yes - RDS RemoteApp and Desktop Sessions included

XenDesktop 7 (XenApp 6.5FP2) - New fee

Graphics Capability

Physical GPU (virtualized) - NEW, virtual GPU

SPICE (2D)

RemoteFX (WAN, Adaptive Graphics, USB Redirection, Media Remoting, vGPU) included

HDX, HDX3D Pro, shared GPU (OpenGL, DirectX and more) integrated with fee-based products

Read Cache User Portal / App Store Persona & Layering

Host Cache / CBRC

No

CSV Cache - included

IntelliCache (incl. with XenServer) CloudGateway / StoreFront (fee)

Horizon Workspace (fee)

Yes (Power User Portal) - incl. with RHEV

RDS Web Access included

Persona and Horizon Mirage (incl. App Layers) -

No

User Profile Disk (included) and UEV

personal vDisk, Citrix Profile Mgmt.

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fee

(MDOP - Fee)

Extensions - Other
(Back to Top) Version Edition Other
Virtual SAN
No (vSphere Storage Appliance) - fee Red Hat Storage - fee Storage Spaces included with Server 2012 no

Evaluation Panel vSphere 5.1 RHEV 3.2 Hyper-V 2012 XenServer 6.2

Enterprise Plus

RHEV

DataCenter

Commercial Edition

Other
Application Management
VMware vFabric Application Performance Manager - Fee No SC Operations Manager - included with SC 2012 EdgeSight, Director (XenDesktop 7 - fee)

Security

vCloud Networking and Security

sVirt & Security Partnerships

MS Forefront (fee) + MS Ecosystem

NetScaler Gateway, App Firewall, CloudBridge

Other
Workflow / Orchestration
Orchestrator (incl..) CloudForms Automate (ManageIQ) SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr - included with SC 2012 Hyper-V Replica (included) + 3rd party Workflow Studio

Other
Site Failover
Site Recovery Manager - fee Plugin framework Integrated Site Recovery (incl.)

Chargeback

vCenter Chargeback Manager - fee

CloudForms Insight (ManageIQ)

Hyper-V Resource Metering and Service Manager (included)

CloudPortal Business Manager, CloudStack Usage Server (fee)

Network Extensions

yes (IBM 5000v and Cisco Nexus 1000v) - fee

RoCE, LB - fee

Hyper-V Extensible Switch - 3rd party Extensions (Nexus 1000V Q2/13)

NetScaler Gateway, AppFirewall, Branch Repeater, 1000v, CloudBridge

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