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identity virtualization management development
datacenter
withoutportability
boundaries
virtual machine
Service
delivery and
automation
Orchestrator
Service Manager
Component
App Controller
Data Protection
Manager
What’s New
 Support for SPF to create and operate VMs
 Support claim based authentication along with SPF
 Support for tenant user roles that maps to SPF/VMM users roles on the
hoster
 Support Windows Azure virtual machine role: Deploy VMs from an image
or disk, operate VMs, remote desktop to VMs
 Support migrate a stored VMM VM to Windows Azure
 Support deploy of a VMM VM template to Windows Azure
 Improved backup performance of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over
CSV 2.0 deployments
 Protect Hyper-V over remote SMB share
 Protect Windows 8 de-duplicated file systems efficiently
 VM Live Migration: Uninterrupted data protection
 DPM ability to backup data to Azure
 Ability to protect SQL 2012 “Always ON” databases
 Exclude Page file in backup of a VM
 Ability to protect “big clusters” using multiple DPM servers
 Ability to protect ReFS file system
Component
Virtual
Machine
Manager
What’s New
 Software defined networking with support for Hyper-V network virtualization
and switch extension management.
 Logical Switch that allows you to manage individual switch instances across
multiple Hyper-V hosts as a single entity
 IIS app host
 Support for a 32 node cluster (This is the scale for Beta… more to come)
 Increased scale of a VMM server to manage 600 hosts and 12,000 VM’s
 Full support for 3rd party UI add-ins. Stay tuned for info on 3rd parties that are
releasing add-ins
 OSD that utilizes deep discovery and Consistent Device Naming (CDN)
 Performance enhancement for the VMM UI
 Support for deploying and managing 3rd party switch extensions (Cisco 1KV,
InMon etc.)
 Support for 3rd party SAN’s and File based storage on Windows Server 2012 File
server
 Support for vSphere 5.0 and Citrix XenServer 6.0 (we are still evaluating the
changes in vSphere 5.1 to determine when we can support
it)
Component
What’s New
Configuration 

Manager


Provides support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
Setting Management: User Profile and Data Management
Support for PowerShell for administrative tasks
Windows Azure-based Distribution Points
 Includes support for the management of Mac OS X and UNIX/Linux (AIX, HPUX, RHEL, SLES, Solaris) servers
Private Cloud: Multi-Hypervisor vSphere & Hyper-V
Hosted
Private Cloud
Unified Private Cloud
Managed holistically via
SCVMM 2012
Cloud Application
(service) user
Service requests drive
cloud delivered services
SCVMM manages vSphere
infrastructure via vCenter
Server
VMWare
vCenter 4.x
Microsoft Private Cloud
Environment (Hyper-V)
Existing vSphere 4.x
Environment
APP
OS
Hyper-V &
Infrastructure
Fabric managed
by SCVMM
SAN Storage
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
XenServer Environment
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
Hyper-V (hypervisor)
XenServer (hypervisor)
SAN Storage
SAN Storage
APP
OS
Comparison
Hyper-V 2008R2 vs
Hyper-V 2012
Dynamic Memory
RemoteFX
June 2008
October 2008
October 2009
February 2011
Live Migration
Cluster Shared Volumes
Processor Compatibility
Hot-Add Storage
Performance & Scalability
Improvements
System
Hyper-V
(2008 R2)
Hyper-V
(2012)
Improvement
Factor
64
320
5×
Physical Memory
1TB
4TB
4×
Virtual CPUs per Host
512
2,048
4×
Virtual CPUs per VM
4
64
16×
64GB
1TB
16×
Active VMs per Host
384
1,024
2.7×
Guest NUMA
No
Yes
-
Maximum Nodes
16
64
4×
1,000
4,000
4×
Resource
Logical Processors (Cores)
Host
VM
Cluster
Memory per VM
Maximum VMs
“Nothing from
Microsoft, and I
mean literally
nothing has
ever been this
ambitious”
— Jason Perlow, ZDNet
WS 2012 Hyper-V
Cloud Capability
(incl. Free Edition)
Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration
Cost Effective & Flexible Infrastructure:
• Live migrate VMs between hosts without shared storage
• Move VMs between standalone hosts & clusters with no downtime.
Stand alone
Hyper-V host
Stand alone
Hyper-V host
VHD
Local direct
attached storage
VHD
Local direct
attached storage
Hyper-V Replica - Unlimited Replication
Disaster Recovery Scenarios:
•
Planned, Unplanned and Test Failover
•
Pre-configuration for IP settings for primary/remote location
Key Features:
RPO/RTO as low as 5 minutes
Seamless integration with Hyper-V and Clustering
Automatically handles all VM mobility scenarios (e.g. Live migration)
Supports heterogonous storage between primary and recovery
Integrates with Volume Shadow Services (VSS)
Critical Safeguard for the Cloud Encrypted cluster volumes
BitLocker encrypted cluster disks
Support for traditional failover disks
Support for Cluster Shared Volumes
Cluster Name Object (CNO) identity used to
lock and unlock Clustered volumes
Enables physical security for deployments
outside of secure datacenters
Branch office deployments
Volume level encryption for compliance
requirements
Negligible (<1%) performance impact
Hyper-V Network Virtualization (SDN)
Woodgrove VM
Woodgrove network
Contoso VM
Physical
network
Physical
server
Hyper-V Machine Virtualization
Hyper-V Network Virtualization
•
•
•
•
Run multiple virtual servers on a
physical server
Each VM has illusion it is running as a
physical server
Contoso network
Run multiple virtual networks on a physical network
Each virtual network has illusion it is running as a physical
fabric
Hyper-V Extensible Switch
VM1
Root Partition
VM2
VM NIC
Host NIC
VM NIC
BFE Service

Forwarding
Windows
Filtering
extensions
Filter
extensions
Platform
candirect
also
(WFP)
be
traffic,
Extensions
implemented
defining
canthe
using
inspect,
Capture
extensions
can
inspect
traffic
and
drop,
NDIS
destination(s)
filtering
modify,new
and
APIs
of each
insert
packet
packets
using WFP
APIs
generate
traffic
for report
purposes

Forwarding
Windows
extensions
andcan
Firewall
capture
software
and
uses
traffic
WFP for
Example:Antivirus
VM
DoS
Prevention
byfilter
Broadcom
traffic
filtering
Capture
extensions do not modify existing

Example:
sflow by inMon
–
NEC ProgrammableFlow's
vPFS OpenFlow
Firewall
Callout
Extensible Switch
Filtering Engine
Extension Protocol
Capture Extensions
WFP Extensions
Filtering Extensions
Forwarding Extensions
Extension Miniport
Physical NIC

Extensible Switch traffic
 Examples:
 Example: Virtual Firewall by 5NINE Software
– Cisco Nexus 1000V and UCS
Why Hyper-V?
A competitive comparison
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
vs XenServer 6.0
vs VMware vSphere 5
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
System
Host
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
Logical Processors (Cores)
320
160
160
160
Physical Memory
4TB
1TB
32GB3
2TB
Virtual CPUs per Host
2,048
Undocumented6
2,048
2,048
Virtual CPUs per VM
64
16
8
325
1TB
128GB
32GB3
1TB
1,024
50-1301
512
512
Guest NUMA
Yes
Host Only
Yes
Yes
Maximum Nodes
64
16
N/A4
32
4,000
800-9602
N/A4
3,000
Memory per VM
VM
Active VMs per Host
Cluster
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Hyper-V
(2012)
Resource
Maximum VMs
XenServer 6.0 active VMs per host varies based on Server/VDI workload, with PVS/IntelliCache & HA on/off
Maximum VMs on a Cluster (Resource Pool) on XenServer 6.0 based on a maximum of 50-60 concurrent protected VMs per host with HA enabled.
Host physical memory is capped at 32GB thus maximum VM memory is also restricted to 32GB usage.
For clustering/high availability, customers must purchase vSphere
vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus is the only edition that supports 32 vCPUs. All others support 8 vCPUs within a virtual machine.
Maximum number of Virtual CPUs per Host is not documented in the Citrix XenServer 6.0 Configuration Limits documentation
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/salesdocs/Citrix_XenServer_6_Configuration_Limits.pdf
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf and
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
Hyper-V
(2012)
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
Virtual Fiber Channel
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
3rd Party Multipathing (MPIO)
Yes
Yes (Manual)
No
Yes (VAMP)2
Native 4-KB Disk Support
Yes
Undocumented4
Undocumented4
Undocumented4
64TB VHDX
2TB
2TB VMDK
2TB VMDK
Varies1
15TB
64TB
64TB
Yes
No
No
Yes (VAAI)3
Capability
Maximum Virtual Disk Size
Maximum Pass Through Disk Size
Offloaded Data Transfer
1.
2.
3.
4.
The maximum size of a physical disk attached to a virtual machine is determined by the guest operating system and the chosen file system within the guest
vStorage API for Multipathing (VAMP) is only available in Enterprise & Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 5.0
vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is only available in Enterprise & Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 5.0
Neither VMware or Citrix documentation suggests that their respective platforms support 4K Advanced Format Drives
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/salesdocs/Citrix_XenServer_6_Configuration_Limits.pdf and
http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/28751-102-673823/XenServer-6.0.0-reference.pdf
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf and
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html
Security &
Multitenancy
Hyper-V
(2012)
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
Yes
Yes
No
Replaceable1
4
Undocumented4
No
2
Private Virtual LAN (PVLAN)
Yes
No
No
Yes1
ARP/ND Spoofing Protection
Yes
No
No
vShield App/Partner2
DHCP Snooping Protection
Yes
No
No
vShield App/Partner2
Virtual Port ACLs
Yes
Yes
No
vShield App/Partner2
Trunk Mode to Virtual Machines
Yes
No
No
No
Port Monitoring
Yes
Yes
Per Port Group
Yes3
Port Mirroring
Yes
Yes
Per Port Group
Yes3
Capability
Extensible Switch
Confirmed Partner Extensions
1.
2.
3.
4.
The vSphere Distributed Switch (required for PVLAN capability) is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5.0 and thus far, seems to be replaceable (By Partners such as
Cisco/IBM) rather than extensible.
ARP Spoofing, DHCP Snooping Protection & Virtual Port ACLs require either vShield App or a Partner solution, all of which are additional purchases on top of vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus
Port Monitoring and Mirroring at a granular level requires vSphere Distributed Switch, which is available in the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5.0.
No XenServer documentation can be located that discusses Partner Extension s to the XenServer Open vSwitch.
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/28748-102-664877/XenServer-6.0.0-dvs_controller.pdf,
http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/28751-102-673823/XenServer-6.0.0-reference.pdf and http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=2300456
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/cisco-nexus-1000V/overview.html, http://www03.ibm.com/systems/networking/switches/virtual/dvs5000v/, http://www.vmware.com/technical-resources/virtualization-topics/virtual-networking/distributed-virtual-switches.html,
http://www.vmware.com/products/vshield-app/features.html and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9902/data_sheet_c78-492971.html
Security &
Multitenancy
Hyper-V
(2012)
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
Yes
Yes
No2
Yes4
1GB Simultaneous Live Migrations
Unlimited1
Undocumented7
N/A
4
10GB Simultaneous Live Migrations
Unlimited1
Undocumented7
N/A
8
Live Storage Migration
Yes
No
No3
Yes5
Shared Nothing Live Migration
Yes
No
No
No
Network Virtualization
Yes
No
No
Partner6
Capability
VM Live Migration
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Within the technical capabilities of the networking hardware
Live Migration (vMotion) is unavailable in the free vSphere Hypervisor – vSphere 5.0 required
Live Storage Migration (Storage vMotion) is unavailable in the free vSphere Hypervisor
Live Migration (vMotion) is available in Essentials Plus & higher editions of vSphere 5.0
Live Storage Migration (Storage vMotion) is available in Enterprise & Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 5.0
VXLAN is a feature of the Cisco Nexus 1000V 1.5, available at additional cost to VMware vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus
No XenServer documentation can be found that details the number of simultaneous live migrations over either 1GB or 10GB Ethernet.
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=2300456
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html,
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9902/white_paper_c11-685115.html
Security &
Multitenancy
Hyper-V
(2012)
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
Incremental Backups
Yes
Yes1
No
Yes5
Inbox VM Replication
Yes
No2
No
No6
NIC Teaming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Integrated High Availability
Yes
Yes3
No4
Yes7
Guest OS Application Monitoring
Yes
No
N/A
No8
Failover Prioritization
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes9
Affinity & Anti-Affinity Rules
Yes
No
N/A
Yes9
Cluster-Aware Updating
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes9
Capability
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
XenServer 6 provides Automated VM Protection & Recovery in the Advanced edition and higher
XenServer 6 provides a Site Replication capability in the Platinum edition, however replication is provided by a storage vendor, not inbox from XenServer hosts.
XenServer 6 provides HA in the Advanced edition or higher.
The vSphere Hypervisor has no high availability features built in – vSphere 5.0 is required.
VMware Data Recovery is available in Essentials Plus and higher vSphere 5.0 editions
vSphere Replication is a feature of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM), which is available in 2 editions and is a chargeable addition to vSphere 5.0
VMware HA is built in to Essentials Plus and higher vSphere 5.0 editions
VMware have made APIs publicly available, but actual application monitoring is not included
Features available in all editions that have High Availability enabled.
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=2300456
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/overview.html and
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/11/vsphere-5-0-ha-application-monitoring-intro/
Hyper-V Market Share
26.6%
VMware admins, do you use any other virtualization
technologies?
48.8%
25.3%
24.6%
26.5%
23.4%
18.2%
22.5%
16.3%
15.5%
LPARs
Solaris
Zones
11.5%
2011 Q1
2011 Q2
2011 Q3
2011 Q4
2012 Q1
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, Q1 2012
Hyper-V
Xen
XenServer
KVM
Source: Official unofficial VMware storage survey, link here
In a global survey of ~2000 VMware customers, 50% indicated that they are also running Hyper-V
The Cloud Battle!
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
vs VMware vSphere 5.1
Microsoft Competitive
Advantages:
•
•
•
•
•
Compute: Better
Performance & Scalability
Storage: Bigger virtual
disks & encryption
Networking: Open
Extensible switch, Network
Virtualization in the box
Application aware
virtualization
Finally, available for free!!
Microsoft makes key enterprise VM features free. Game on, VMware (link)
New
SP1
vCloud Suite 5.1
Also can buy products piecemeal
(vSphere & vCenter, vCloud Director, vCenter
Operations Management Suite, VMware
Service Manager, vFabric Application
Performance Manager, vCenter Site Recovery
Manager…)
VMware: “Those of you who know our product deeply
know that they don’t fit together as well as they need
to…Lots of these are from acquisitions and they don’t
work well enough together yet.”
Application
Management
Service Delivery
& Automation
Private Cloud Capability
Application Self-Service
VMware
vCloud Director
Application Performance Management
vFabric Application Performance Mgr.
Application Management across clouds
vCloud Director, vCloud Connector
IT Service Management & Service Catalog
Process Automation & Orchestration
Capacity Management
Private Clouds Provisioning and Delegation
Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
Monitoring
Configuration & Compliance
Infrastructure
Management
Microsoft
Security
Integration with existing heterogeneous mgmt. tools
Heterogeneous Infra Support - physical & virtual
Multi-hypervisor Management Support
Identity Management
Hypervisor Platform
System Center 2012 SP1
Windows Server 2012
Private Cloud
Tiers
VMware Service Manager
vCenter Operations Mgmt. Suite
vCenter Orchestrator
vCloud Director
vCenter Site Recovery Manager
vCenter Operations Mgmt. Suite
vCenter Operations Mgmt. Suite
vShield Endpoint
X
X
X
X
vSphere, vCenter
3
Application
Management
Service Delivery
& Automation
Private Cloud Capability
Application Performance Management
Process Automation & Orchestration
We add vFabric APM and VMware
Service Manager to our cost
Private Clouds
Provisioning
and Delegation
calculations,
as System
Center 2012
Data Protection
& Disaster
Recovery
provides
these
capabilities
Capacity Management
Configuration & Compliance
Security
Integration with existing heterogeneous mgmt. tools
Heterogeneous Infra Support - physical & virtual
New
vCloud Suite 5.1
VMware Service Manager
New
vCloud Suite 5.1
X
X
Multi-hypervisor Management Support
X
Identity Management
Hypervisor Platform
vCloud Suite 5.1
vFabric Application Performance Mgr.
Application Management across clouds
IT Service Management & Service Catalog
VMware
New
Application Self-Service
Monitoring
Infrastructure
Management
Microsoft
System Center 2012 SP1
Windows Server 2012
Private Cloud
Tiers
X
New
vCloud Suite 5.1
With vSphere 5.1, VMware made replication
available in-the-box similar to Hyper-V
Replica, but it has many restrictions
Capability
Microsoft Hyper-V Replica
VMware vSphere Replication
Availability
All editions
All editions
Architecture
In-the-box with hypervisor
Separate Virtual Appliance
Asynchronous
Asynchronous
5 minutes
15 minutes
Planned Failover
Yes
SRM Required
Unplanned Failover
Yes
Yes
Undisruptive testing
Yes
SRM Required
Failback Process
Yes
SRM Required
Automatic Re-IP Process
Yes
SRM Required
Yes, 15 recovery points
SRM + 3rd Party SAN Required
Yes, System Center Orchestrator
SRM Required
Replication Methodology
RTO
Point in Time Recovery
Orchestration
$4,209* FOR 2 PHYSICAL
PROCESSORS WITH UNLIMITED
VIRTUALIZATION1
$8,419* FOR 2 PHYSICAL
PROCESSORS WITH UNLIMITED
VIRTUALIZATION1
1EACH
LICENSE OF WINDOWS SERVER 2012 AND SYSTEM CENTER 2012 COVERS UP TO 2 PHYSICAL PROCESSORS. WINDOWS SERVER 2012
DATACENTER AND SYSTEM CENTER 2012 DATACENTER ALLOW UNLIMITED VIRTUALIZATION RIGHTS.
*PRICE SHOWN HERE INCLUDES 3 YEAR LICENSE AND SOFTWARE ASSURANCE COSTS UNDER MICROSOFT OPEN LICENSE PROGRAM, NO LEVEL
PRICING USED, U.S. SUGGESTED LIST PRICES AS OF JULY 2012, RESLLER PRICING MAY VARY.
$10,102* FOR 2 PHYSICAL
PROCESSORS WITH
UNLIMITED
VIRTUALIZATION1
SIMPLE LICENSING,
CONSISTENT CAPABILITIES,
NO CHARGE PER VM
1EACH
LICENSE OF ECI DATACENTER COVERS UP TO 2 PHYSICAL PROCESSORS AND PROVIDE UNLIMITED VIRTUALIZATION RIGHTS. ECI
REQUIRES A 25 LICENSE MINIMUM INITIAL PURCHASE
*PRICE SHOWN HERE INCLUDES 3 YEAR LICENSE AND SOFTWARE ASSURANCE COSTS UNDER MICROSOFT OPEN LICENSE PROGRAM, NO LEVEL
PRICING USED, U.S. SUGGESTED LIST PRICES AS OF JULY 2012, RESLLER PRICING MAY VARY.
ECI OFFERS THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE MECHANISM TO LICENSE MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD
vCloud Suite 5.1 Bundle
$40,234* FOR 2 PHYSICAL
PROCESSORS
*PRICE SHOWN HERE INCLUDES 3 YEAR LICENSE AND
SNS COSTS
vCloud Suite 5.1 cost (L + 3 Yr. SnS)
License for 2 CPUs- $11,495*2
SnS for 2 CPUs $2,874*2
SnS for 3 Yrs. $2,874*2*3
Total $40,234
Customers can also choose to purchase individual VMware products on a piecemeal basis
$1,600,000
$1,400,000
$1,200,000
Total: $1.5M
Service Manager
vFabric APM
vCloud Suite
ECI Datacenter
Windows Server 2012
$115,500
$189,000
vFabric APM (& all other app
focused products) licensed on
per VM basis
$1,000,000
6X
$800,000
$1,005,850
$600,000
$400,000
$200,000
Total: $252K
$252,550
$210,475
Microsoft
VMware
$0
Assumptions
•
•
•
•
Assumes 25 physical hosts with 2 CPU & six cores each, 300 VMs at 6:1 consolidation ratio
Costs shown for 3 years for license & support, no discount applied on either sides, cost doesn’t include hardware, storage or labor costs
VMware cost includes Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition for running guests
Calculation uses licensing and support prices based on published U.S. suggested list prices for VMware and Microsoft as of Sept 2012
Bundled Products on a per
CPU basis
Virtualization
Identity
Data
Cloud Choices
Microsoft
VMware
Private Cloud
Yes
Yes
Partner Offered Clouds
Yes
Yes
Vendor Offered Public Cloud
Yes
No
Hybrid Cloud is realized through commonalities between onpremises and public cloud capabilities. Microsoft offers many
more commonalities than VMware, so you can seamlessly move
your data and apps in a hybrid cloud environment
Hybrid Cloud Commonalities
Development
DevOps
and mgmt
Microsoft
VMware
Identity
Yes
No
Virtualization
Yes
Yes
Management
Yes
Limited
Development Platform
Yes
Limited
Data Platform
Yes
No
Integrated DevOps
Yes
No
Cloud OS
Scalability,
Performance &
Density
Secure
Multitenancy
Flexible
Infrastructure
High
Availability &
Resiliency
Hyper-V: A More Complete Virtualization Platform
Breakout Sessions
AZR211 - What's New in Windows Azure? (Wed 8:15 – 9:30)
VIR232 - Maximise your Hyper-V Deployment with HP Reference Architecture (Fri 9:45 – 11am @ MR 8)
VIR312 - What's New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Part 1 (Wed 8:15 – 9:30)
VIR314 - WS2012 Hyper-V Live Migration and Live Storage Migration (Wed 13:45 – 15:00 @ Arena 1A)
VIR315 - What's New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Part 2 (Wed 15:30 – 16:45 @ Central A)
VIR323 - WS2012 Capabilities to Enable Multi-Tenancy (Thursday 11:30 – 12:45 @ Arena 2)
VIR322 - Enabling Next Gen Multi-Datacenter Resilience at Kennards Hire (Thu 11:30–12:45 @Central A)
VIR334 - SC2012 Infrastructure Components Management (Friday 13:45 – 15:00 @ Central A)
VIR413 - Hyper-V Performance, Scale & Architecture Changes (Wed 11:30 – 12:45 @ Arena A)
VIRILL100 - Getting Started with System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (Thu 9:45 – 11am TLC Thr 3)
Appendix
Additional Slides
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
Hyper-V
(2012)
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue
Yes
VMq1
NetQueue1
NetQueue1
IPsec Task Offload
Yes
No
No
No
SR-IOV
Yes
Yes2
DirectPath I/O3
DirectPath I/O3
Storage Encryption
Yes
No
No
No
Capability
1.
2.
3.
Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue (DVMQ) is not supported by either XenServer or vSphere, which both support regular VMq (known as NetQueue on vSphere).
Whilst XenServer 6.0 provides SR-IOV support, the release notes state: “If your VM has an SR-IOV VF, functions that require VM mobility are not possible. For example, Live Migration,
Workload Balancing, Rolling Pool Upgrade, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, cannot be used. This is because the VM is directly tied to the physical SR-IOV enabled NIC VF. In
addition, VM network traffic sent via an SR-IOV VF bypasses the vSwitch, so it is not possible to create Access Control Lists (ACL) or view Quality of Service (Qos).”
(http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131381)
DirectPath IO, whilst not identical to SR-IOV, aims to provide virtual machines with more direct access to hardware devices, with network cards being a good example. Whilst on the
surface, this will boost VM networking performance, and reduce the burden on host CPU cycles, in reality, there are a number of caveats in using DirectPath I/O:
• Very small Hardware Compatibility List
• No Memory Overcommit
• No vMotion (unless running certain configurations of Cisco UCS)
• No Fault Tolerance
• No Network I/O Control
• No VM Snapshots (unless running certain configurations of Cisco UCS)
• No Suspend/Resume (unless running certain configurations of Cisco UCS)
• No VMsafe/Endpoint Security support
• No such restrictions are imposed when using SR-IOV, ensuring customers can combine the highest levels of performance with the flexibility they need for an agile infrastructure.
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/salesdocs/Citrix_XenServer_6_Configuration_Limits.pdf,
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=2300456,
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.0.pdf
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
Hyper-V
(2012)
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
64
16
N/A2
32
4,000
800-9601
N/A2
3000
Max Size Guest Cluster (iSCSI)
64 Nodes
Undocumented7
03
03
Max Size Guest Cluster (Fiber)
64 Nodes
No
2
2
Max Size Guest Cluster (File Based)
64 Nodes
Undocumented7
04
04
Guest Clustering with Live Migration Support
Yes
Undocumented7
N/A2
No5
Guest Clustering with Dynamic Memory Support
Yes
Undocumented7
No6
No6
Capability
Nodes per Cluster
VMs per Cluster
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Maximum VMs on a Cluster (Resource Pool) on XenServer 6.0 based on a maximum of 50-60 concurrent protected VMs per host with HA enabled.
High Availability/vMotion/Clustering is unavailable in the standalone vSphere Hypervisor
VMware does not support VM Guest Clustering using iSCSI storage.
VMware does not support VM Guest Clustering using File Based Storage i.e. NFS
VMware does not support the vMotion of a VM that is part of a Guest Cluster
VMware does not support the use of Memory Overcommit with a VM that is part of a Guest Cluster
No XenServer documentation can be found that details the number of simultaneous live migrations over either 1GB or 10GB Ethernet.
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/salesdocs/Citrix_XenServer_6_Configuration_Limits.pdf
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf, http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphereesxi-vcenter-server-50-mscs-guide.pdf
Security &
Multitenancy
Hyper-V
(2012)
XenServer
(6.0)
ESXi 5
(Free Edition)
vSphere
(5.0 Ent+)
Dynamic Memory
Yes
Yes1
Yes
Yes
Resource Metering
Yes
Yes2
Yes4
Yes
Quality of Service
Yes
Yes
No
Yes5
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
Yes
Undocumented3
Yes
Yes
Capability
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Memory Optimization is a feature found only in XenServer 6.0 Advanced edition and higher.
XenServer collects processor use, memory usage, and network I/O rates for the entire host system, as well as each individual virtual machine. Free edition limited to 24 hours
of historical data.
A number of Converged Network Adaptors are supported within the XenServer 6.0 HCL however no official documentation can be found for DCB and XenServer 6.0.
Without vCenter, Resource Metering in VMware vSphere Hypervisor is only available on an individual host by host basis.
Quality of Service (QoS) is only available in the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5.0
XenServer 6.0 Information: http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/salesdocs/Citrix_XenServer_6_Configuration_Limits.pdf,
http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/28751-102-673823/XenServer-6.0.0-reference.pdf, http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123996
and http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=2300456
vSphere Hypervisor / vSphere 5.0 Ent+ Information: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf and
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html
Policy Settings
Blue Corp
Provider Address Space
Blue Corp
SQL
10.1.1.1
WEB
10.1.1.2
Red Corp
Customer
Address
Provider
Address
10.1.1.1
192.168.1.10
10.1.1.2
192.168.1.12
Red Corp
SQL
10.1.1.1
Customer
Address
Provider
Address
WEB
10.1.1.2
10.1.1.1
192.168.1.11
10.1.1.2
192.168.1.13
Data Center
Network
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.11
Hyper-V Host 1
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.11
Hyper-V Host 1
SQL
SQL
WEB
WEB
10.1.1.1
10.1.1.1
10.1.1.2
10.1.1.2
Customer Address Space
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
Security &
Multitenancy
Flexible
Infrastructure
High
Availability
& Resiliency
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
Security &
Multitenancy
Security &
Multitenancy
Flexible
Infrastructure
Flexible
Infrastructure
High
Availability &
Resiliency
High
Availability &
Resiliency
High
Availability &
Resiliency
Scalability,
Performance
& Density
Security &
Multitenancy
Flexible
Infrastructure
High
Availability
& Resiliency
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