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VMware vSphere 6 with Operations Management
Key Features and Benefits Comparison
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS VMWARE VSPHERE®
WITH OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT™ 6
MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER
2012 R2 HYPER-V & SYSTEM CENTER
2012 R2
RED HAT ENTERPRISE
VIRTUALIZATION 3.5
• End-to-End Compression – Reduce the amount of time required to replicate a virtual machine by reducing the
amount of bandwidth required to replicate your virtual machines. New in vSphere 6 Replication, End-to-end
compression can help reduce the amount of data transmitted by 35-55% typically.
3
No, will require a third party solution at an
additional cost
No
• Guest Quiescing - Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and Linux file system quiescing to
improve reliability of replicated virtual machines
3
Limited, no support for Linux file system
quiescing
No, RHEV does not include replication
capabilities
vMotion® and Storage vMotion®
• Concurrent vMotion Support - Support for four to eight simultaneous vMotion migrations per host, depending on
the vMotion network adapter
3
Unlimited based on your architecture, with no
guidance from MS on sizing
recommendations
Five maximum per host by default. Trac is
pinned to management network and cannot
be specified explicitly elsewhere
• Scheduled Migrations – Specify predefined times for migrations
3
No No
• Enhanced vMotion Compatibility - Automatically configure servers whose CPUs feature Intel FlexMigration and
AMD-V Extended Migration technologies to be vMotion-compatible with servers that use older CPUs
3
Limited, Hyper-V CPU Compatibility Mode
must be configured for every VM in a mixed
CPU infrastructure
Yes, but dicult to make changes to
compatibility mode without virtual machine
downtime
• Long Distance vMotion - Ability to use vMotion to move a running virtual machine when the source and destination
ESXi hosts are located in dierent geographic regions. The maximum supported round trip time latency between
the two hosts is now 100ms.
3
undocumented undocumented
• vMotion across vCenter Server Instances - Migrate a virtual machine across vCenter Server instances, preserving virtual
machine settings and statistics, including historical auditing via event and task history, and settings for configurations
such as HA, DRS, and anity/anti-anity.
3
No, not possible without manually removing
a virtual machine by disabling high
availability.
No
• vMotion across switches - Migrate a virtual machine across switches, preserving virtual machine settings and
statistics, including historical auditing via event and task history.
3
No No ability to change network location during
a live migration or without individually
drilling down into a virtual machine
5. Storage
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS VMWARE VSPHERE®
WITH OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT™ 6
MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER
2012 R2 HYPER-V & SYSTEM CENTER
2012 R2
RED HAT ENTERPRISE
VIRTUALIZATION 3.5
Leverage VMware’s APIs for integrated storage capabilities that provide advanced storage intelligence and performance improvements with storage assisted ooad
• Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) - ESXi can ooad specific storage operations to compliant storage hardware.
With storage hardware assistance, ESXi performs these operations faster and consumes less CPU, memory, and storage
fabric bandwidth.
3
Limited, ODX is a limited subset of VAAI
that’s comparable to the VAAI Copy Primitive
only
No
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