Child of Wonder
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***DISCLAIMER***
This thread is not intended to start a religious war on Hyper-V vs VMware! I recently held a session at a technical conference intended to outline the actual differences between Hyper-V and VMware that isn't found in the marketing fluff, blogs, and FUD out there on the internet. A lot of people are genuinely interested in both products and it's my goal to give a fair, objective, and balanced look at the key differentiators between the two products and what matters to IT and the business they support.For example --
- Did you know you can hot-add a SCSI controller in VMware but not Hyper-V?
- That both offer a Site Recovery Manager product but VMware's is installed on site and Hyper-V's must live in Azure?
- Hyper-V can automatically migrate a running VM if the virtual switch the VM is on loses network connectivity but the same switch is up on a different host?
- How is Hyper-V's Dynamic Memory different than VMware's memory strategy? When should it be used?
- VMware offers hyper-converged options like VSAN but Microsoft does not believe in hyper-convergence?
- VMware can convert a virtual disk between thick and thin provisioning while the VM is running but Hyper-V cannot?
We'll even eventually talk about price and I don't mean "Hyper-V is free!!!!" that you may read on blogs. Hyper-V's licensing model is less expensive but what about other costs? Are the two private cloud suites of products really apples to apples? What about the cost of migrating to Hyper-V? What about support? Personnel costs to manage it? Just because the licenses are cheaper doesn't mean the solution is.....
I'll build out this thread over time and we'll hopefully get more and more discussion on what I have to say. I'll begin with how both products are the same and then move into differences in regards to compute, high availability, memory, networking, storage, administration, and private cloud.
More content coming soon and I expect this thread to be a living, breathing document as we (yes, WE! I am by no means the authority on both products and fully expect to be corrected on points as we discuss) add more information over time....
***ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER***
I work for an IT VAR who partners with both VMware and Microsoft. I have worked with both products as a pre-sales architect and post sales engineer. I hold both VMware and Microsoft certifications -- VCP 3/4/5, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD, MCSA 2012, and MCSE Private Cloud.
I work for an IT VAR who partners with both VMware and Microsoft. I have worked with both products as a pre-sales architect and post sales engineer. I hold both VMware and Microsoft certifications -- VCP 3/4/5, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD, MCSA 2012, and MCSE Private Cloud.
EDIT - 12/10/2014
These comparisons will all be between vSphere 5.5 and Hyper-V 2012 R2. While both are expecting new major releases next year, I don't think comparing what's coming (even for those of us with inside knowledge) is going to give us a true apples to apples comparison so I want to stick with what's already been released. Next year when the new products are released I'll come back and add to the thread.
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