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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
• VMware API for Storage Awareness (VASA) - Allow storage arrays to integrate with vCenter for management
functionality via server-side plug-ins or vendor providers. Allows a vCenter administrator to be aware of the
topology, capabilities, and state of the physical storage devices available to the cluster.
3
Possible through SCVMM and limited 3rd
party plugins
Very limited ecosystem and availability of
third party plugins
• vSphere APIs for Multi-pathing - Support for 3rd party multi-pathing plug-in extension modules from vendors such
as EMC, Dell/Equallogic and others to enhance high availability and load balancing for critical applications
3
Vendor support for only a subset of the
vendors plugins when compared to VMware
No evidence of any third party integrations
for multi-pathing. Limited built in capabilities.
Deep Storage Intelligence
• Storage I/O Control (SIOC) - Provides QoS capabilities for storage I/O in the form of I/O shares and limits that are
enforced across all virtual machines accessing a datastore, regardless of which host they are running on and the
type of storage used. Use Storage I/O Control to ensure that the most important virtual machines get adequate I/O
resources even in times of congestion.
3
No, Hyper-V allows for configuration of
virtual disk limits, but lacks comprehensive
management of storage I/O. Disk limits only
protect resources on the same host and lack
storage awareness
No, quotas and QoS capabilities provided by
RHEV cannot guarantee resources and are
only limits that may unnecessarily restrict
VMs from using storage I/O resources when
they are needed.
• Intelligent Initial Placement – Initially place workloads based on known storage environmental factors such as
storage capacity and storage I/O utilization
3
No, VMM Intelligent Placement only considers
free space when making placement decisions
No
• Storage DRS - Automated load balancing uses storage characteristics to determine the best place for a given virtual
machine’s data to reside based on both storage space and storage I/O resources. Also includes Anity/Anti-Anity
Rules for VMs and VMDKs
3
No capabilities to balance storage unless using
SMB3,SOFS, & Storage Spaces
No
Comprehensive configuration, management, and reporting management of storage with ability to specify granular controls
• Unified Hierarchical Namespace – Manage all available physical disks, logical volumes, and VMFS volumes with a
consistent namespace that eliminates potential conflicts
3
No No
• Customizable Reports and Topology Maps – Increase visibility into vSphere storage space utilization with per-VM,
per-datastore and other reports. Resolve configuration related issues with storage specific topology maps.
3
No direct integration with Hyper-V and
System Center, limited capabilities provided
by using SCOM
Limited reporting capabilities provided
through RHEV reporting, a separate
component that is not integrated directly
with RHEV-M
• Centralized Datastore Management - Create, configure, organize and secure datastores centrally for more granular
control over storage in vSphere environments
3
No, several tools are required with basic
capabilities only
Very basic capabilities only
• Consumption Based Monitoring and Alerting - Set alerts to notify administrators when they need to procure more
storage or rebalance virtual machines across the available storage with Storage vMotion
3
No monitoring tools for thin disks No monitoring tools for thin disks
• Virtual Disk Files - Simplify virtual machine storage management. Virtual machines see their own private virtual
disk files. However, outside the virtual machine, the virtual disks are simply large files that can be copied, moved,
archived and backed up as easily as any other file.
3
Yes Each virtual disk or snapshot is a logical
volume on a volume group
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