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Hyper-V vs VMware:. NO FUD EDITION. Michael Sasse, Jonathan Engstrom. WHO WE ARE. Michael Sasse VMware admin and consultant since 2006 VCP3/4/5, VCAP5-DCA and VCAP5-DCD MCSA 2012, MCSE Private Cloud Jonathan Engstrom VMware admin and consultant since 2003 VCP2/3/4 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Hyper-V vs VMware:NO FUD EDITION
Michael Sasse, Jonathan Engstrom
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WHO WE ARE
•Michael Sasse• VMware admin and consultant since 2006• VCP3/4/5, VCAP5-DCA and VCAP5-DCD• MCSA 2012, MCSE Private Cloud
• Jonathan Engstrom• VMware admin and consultant since 2003• VCP2/3/4• MCSE 2003, MCSA 2012
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WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT
• Hypervisor market has more choice•Microsoft upped their game with Hyper-V 2012 and R2 (and
vNext!)• VMware continues to lead the feature race, but gap is closing•Microsoft has begun to innovate and add their own unique
features
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HOW THEY’RE THE SAMEFeature vSphere 5.5 Hyper-V 2012 R2
Migrate running VMs vMotion/SvMotion* Live Migr/Live Storage Migr
Multi-NIC Migration Multi-NIC vMotion* SMB3 Live Migration
High Availability vSphere HA and FT* MS Failover cluster, no FT
Replication vSphere Replication* Hyper-V Replication
Storage Protocols FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SMB3
Native MPIO Yes Yes
Storage Offloading Yes, VAAI Yes, ODX
DRS Yes* Yes*
Virtual Switches vSwitch, VDS*, Nexus 1kv* Virtual Switch, Nexus 1kv*
Memory Management TPS, Ballooning, Compr. Dynamic Memory
Thin Provisioned VM disk Yes Yes
Hardware Pass-through Yes, including UCS VM-FEX Yes, including UCS VM-FEX* Requires vCenter or System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Compute and High AvailabilityvSphere 5.5 Hyper-V 2012 R2
vCPUs per core or socket, CPU hot plug vCPUs per socket only, no CPU hot plugCPU scheduler based on Unix CPU scheduling based on traditional Windows threading
NUMA exposed to guest OS at 9 vCPU or higher by default or manually
NUMA exposed by default, NUMA spanning disabled per host
vNUMA disabled if vCPU hot plug enabled Dynamic memory disables vNUMA, static RAM recommended for large RAM VMs
No AD required to cluster AD required to clusterVMotion requires a checkmark* Constrained delegation for Kerberos Live Migration
VMotion traffic cannot be encrypted Live Migration can be encrypted with IPSecCan’t VMotion when using SR-IOV Live Migration supported when using SR-IOV
Only option to speed up VMotion is multiple NICs Multi-NIC Live Migration with SMB3 or CompressionvCenter does not certify MSCS, supports SQL clustering now SCVMM, DB, and Library shares can be clustered
Limited virtual graphics options RemoteFX Graphical processing in VMSRM Azure SRM
Fault Tolerance No Fault Tolerance equivalent feature
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Memory and Networking
vSphere 5.5 Hyper-V 2012 R2
Memory over commitment No memory over commitment
TPS*, Ballooning, Compression Dynamic memory
VMs can swap to host SSD VMs can swap to shared SSD only
Memory allocated upfront, contention faster Dynamic memory and growing .bin file
No network HA Protected networking
Port groups easily assign VLANs to VMs VLANs assigned per VM manually without SCVMM
Port groups and vSwitch design simple Logical networks, VM networks in SCVMM more complex
vSwitch/vDS advanced features (LBT, CDP, LLDP, Netflow, Network IO Control)
vSwitch advanced features (DHCP guard, Router Advertisement Guard, IPSec offload, network virtualization)
NetQueue DVMQ, vRSS, RDMA for Live Migration
Closed virtual switch (Nexus 1000v, IBM 5000v) Open extensible virtual switch (3rd party extensions)
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StoragevSphere 5.5 Hyper-V 2012 R2
Deletes VM folder after SVMotion Leaves old folder after Storage MigrationSCSI Controllers can be hot added SCSI Controllers cannot be hot added
Thin disks Thin disks and differencing disks
Thin disks can be compacted or converted through CLI or live SVMotion
Thin disks can be compacted or converted through GUI or Powershell offline
vSAN No MS hyperconverged optionNFS3 only SMB3!!! Multichannel, constraints, SMB direct
vFRC No native host level SSD cachingHardware RAID card required for ESXi RAID 1 Windows OS has built in RAID 1
Storage DRS No Storage DRSNo native encryption Cluster Shared Volumes can be encrypted
No native memory caching on storage (VMware View only) CSV Block CacheNo Trim support for SSDs Trim support for SSDs
CBT allows easier 3rd party backups No CBT mechanism, 3rd party backups rely on file sys filtersVMDK is proprietary VHD/VHDX is open, can be mounted on any recent MS OS
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Management
vSphere 5.5 Hyper-V 2012 R2
vCenter legacy client, Web client VMM, Failover cluster Mgr, Hyper-V Mgr
Smaller attack surface VMM does not equal vCenter
Familiar, easy to set up and go Does not support some BSD and Unix OSes
Hot Add/Remove VM hardware Hot Add/Rem with Gen 2 only (Win8/2012+ VM)
Hot add vNICs, memory, CPU, and SCSI controllers Can’t Hot add vNICs, SCSI Cont, or CPU
Stateless deployment (Auto Deploy) Deployment through VMM, still requires HDD
Smaller attack surface Standard Windows GUI, Limited GUI, or Core
Familiar, easy to set up and go HA, Live/Storage Migr, Repl for $0 on Hyper-V core (with AD)
vApps Can’t Live Migrate from 2008 R2 to 2012+
Rolling cluster upgrades and downgrades No rolling cluster upgrades
Easy performance monitoring in vCenter VMM offers limited performance monitoring
Legacy console connection to VMs only Enhanced Session Mode
Slew of vendor integration Limited vendor integration, but growing
Many VMware advanced features rely on vCenter Very few Hyper-V advanced features rely on VMM
Web client… Automatic VM activationVMware Converter allows easy P2V and V2V MVMC and 3rd party products work, but not great
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$$$ COST $$$
• 8 node cluster• 2 CPU sockets per node, 256GB RAM• 125 mission critical VMs• N+1 node availability
• Full “Private Cloud” licensing and support• Hypervisor and Private Cloud ecosphere products
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VMware Cost
• VMware solution list price:• 16 vCloud Enterprise licenses = $183,920• Entire vCloud suite included: vCAC, vRealize (vCOPs, Log Insight, Service Manager,
etc.), SRM, vCNS, vSphere Ent Plus• vDP free but feature limited, vDP Advanced costs extra • 1 vCenter Standard license = $4,995
• Not included with vCloud• Production Support Cost per year = $45,984
• Total licensing cost = $183,920• Total support cost = $45,984• Still need Windows server licenses on VMs• Personnel cost = $??,??? But probably lower since VMware well known• VMware licensing more straight forward but costly
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Hyper-V and System Center Cost• Microsoft solution list price:
• 8 Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter licenses = $49,240• 8 System Center 2012 R2 Datacenter licenses = $28,856
• Entire System Center suite included: VMM, OM, ORCH, CM, SM, DPM, AppController• Support cost = $????
• Premier Support purchased in $210/hour prepaid blocks• Pay per incident = $259 during 6am-6pm PST, $515 after hours and holidays
• Azure Hyper-V Site Recovery Manager = $16 per VM per month
• Total licensing cost = $78,096• Total support cost = $??,???• Total SRM cost = $2,000 per month• All Windows Server VMs automatically licensed• Personnel cost and training = $??,???• Cost to migrate from VMware = Time + Outages + Planning = $$$$$$
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WHAT REALLY MATTERS????
• Each Hypervisor has pros and cons• A lot of FUD is being spread on
the internet, both from VMware and Microsoft•Make sure to use what makes
sense for YOUR BUSINESS!• Sometimes that means both
products!
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WHAT DO MY CLIENTS SAY ABOUT HYPER-V?
• Business critical features are the same• HA, Migration, Storage Protocols, MPIO, Replication, etc.
• VMware still leads feature race but Hyper-V is catching up• Most businesses don’t use more “advanced” features• Advanced features fall away if not licensed Enterprise Plus• Some are avoided simply to reduce complexity• Hyper-V is innovating and has some unique features, too
• Cost alone typically drives VMware shops to consider Hyper-V•Which means….
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Michael SasseJonathan Engstrom
Hyper-V vs VMware: No FUD Edition