How Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V compares against VMware vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus
by Shijaz Abdulla on 02.06.2012 at 12:43Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) marks a major milestone in Microsoft’s foray into the virtualization world. While Microsoft have always been leaders in management technologies, an area where VMware was weak, Microsoft now have the hypervisor which exceeds VMware capabilities.
Facts and Figures: Hyper-V vs. vSphere 5
Thought I’d share some interesting information from the recently released Competitive Advantages document.
| System | Resource | Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V | VMware ESXi 5.0 | VMware vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus |
| Host | Logical Processors |
320 |
160 |
160 |
| Physical Memory |
4 TB |
32 GB |
2 TB |
|
| Virtual CPUs per host |
2048 |
2048 |
2048 |
|
| VM | Virtual CPUs per VM |
64 |
8 |
32 |
| Memory per VM |
1 TB |
32 GB |
1 TB |
|
| Active VMs per host |
1024 |
512 |
512 |
|
| Guest NUMA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Cluster | Maximum nodes |
64 |
N/A |
32 |
| Maximum VMs |
4000 |
N/A |
3000 |
|
| Storage | Virtual Fiber Channel |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| MPIO |
Yes |
No |
Yes (VAMP) |
|
| Native 4-KB disk support |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
| Maximum Virtual Disk Size |
64 TB VHDX |
2 TB VMDK |
2 TB VMDK |
|
| Maximum pass through disk size |
Varies |
64 TB |
64 TB |
|
| Offloaded Data Transfer |
Yes |
No |
Yes (VAAI) |
|
| VDI* | Hardware GPU to vGPU support |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Software GPU support |
Yes |
Basic |
Basic |
|
| Remote Touch Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
| User Profile & Data Mgmt |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
|
Extensible Switch/Multi-tenancy |
Extensible Network Switch |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
|
Confirmed Partner Extenstions |
4 |
None |
2 |
|
|
PVLAN |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
|
ARP/ND Spoofing Protection |
Yes |
No |
vShield App/Partner |
|
|
DHCP snooping/DHCP guard |
Yes |
No |
vShield App/Partner |
|
|
Virtual Port ACLs |
Yes |
No |
vShield App/Partner |
|
|
Trunk Mode to Virtual Machines |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
|
Port Monitoring |
Yes |
Per Port Group |
Yes |
|
|
Port Mirroring |
Yes |
Per Port Group |
Yes |
Mind-blowing, isn’t it?
*VDI comparisons were made taking VMware View into account.
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