Microsoft HyperV 3 versus Vmware vSphere 5
Erik Scholten & Alex Muetstege
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Who Are We?
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www.vmguru.nl
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5 years
Who Are We?
Erik Scholten
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37 years old
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Solution Architect
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15 years professional
experience
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VMware vExpert
2009/2010/2011/2012
Alex Muetstege
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38 years old
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Solution Architect
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15 years professional
experience
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VMware vExpert
2011/2012
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Who Are We
Employees
700 ICT experts in the Netherlands.
Locations
Alphen aan den Rijn, Amersfoort, Capelle aan den IJssel, Zaltbommel and Eindhoven.
Services
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Customers
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Where are we now?
VMware: a little history
• VMware was founded in 1998
• Located in Palo Alto, California (Silicon Valley)
• First virtualization product (VMware Workstation) in 1999
• First server virtualization product (VMware GSX and ESX) in 2001
• Acquired by EMC in 2004
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Microsoft (and HyperV): a little history
• Microsoft was founded in 1975
• Located in Redmond, Washington
• 92.000 Employees
• Microsoft is in Virtualization since 2004
• First product: Virtual PC from takeover of Connectix
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But what’s has MS announced
But what’s has MS announced
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But what’s has MS announced
Hyper-V replica
But what’s has MS announced
SMB Live Migration
Host 1 Host 2
SMB File Server
No SMB support with VMware
Concern: SMB performance is not that great!
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But what’s has MS announced
Shared nothing Live Migration
Blue = Networking
Host 1 Host 2
No Shared Storage
No VMware alternative
Concern: performance depends on network throughput
LAN : 1GbE = 93MB/sec (eff. 75%), 50GB VM => 10 minutes WAN : 100MbE = 9MB/sec (eff. 75%), 50GB VM => 1,5 hours
But what’s has MS announced
Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
Intelligent Storage Array
Virtual
Disk Actual Data Transfer Virtual Disk
Offload
Read Token Token
Offload Write
Token
No support from any storage vendor yet.
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Hyper-V 3 – New Scalability features
Scalability:
• Support for up to 63 nodes per cluster and 4000 VM’s
• Up to 32 virtual CPU’s in 1 VM
• Up to 160 logical CPU’s in one host
• Up to 1024 VM’s and 2048 virtual processors per host
• Max 512 GB RAM per VM
• Max 2TB RAM per host
• No more limits on Live (Storage) Migration (limited by hardware only)
• Live Storage Migration to SAS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel or SMB share
• Extensible virtual switch (plugin model for 3rd parties)
• VHDX Format now supports up to 16 TB disks
• Official Support for NIC Teaming on hardware in the box
• Cluster Services inside VMs can run on FC or iSCSI
• ODX Support (Offloaded Data Transfer) on storage
Hyper-V 3 – New Availability features
Availability:
• Virtual Machine Boot Priority
• Priority Workloads (low, medium, high)
• Intelligent placing of VMs on hosts
• Bitlocker support on clustered disks (Encrypted Cluster Volumes)
• Anti-Affinity VM rules
• VM Health monitoring support (in VM support)
• In Box Maintenance Support (Cluster Aware Updating)
• Hyper-V Replica (High availability for single VMs on another host)
• New virtual ‘Fiber Channel Adapter’
• 4 virtual FC cards can be attached to 1 physical card
• 2 virtual FC cards in 1 VM can point to 2 different physical cards
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Wow!
Apparently….
Let’s compare Scalability
32 hosts/cluster
3000 virtual machines/cluster
40 hosts/cluster
4000 virtual machines/cluster 32 vCPU virtual machines 32 vCPU virtual machines
160 logical CPU’s/host 160 logical CPU’s/host
512GB memory/virtual machine 2TB memory/host
1TB memory/virtual machine 2TB memory/host
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Let’s compare Availability
VM boot priority Workload priority
Intelligent placement of VM’s (Anti-) Affinity rules
Cluster aware updating Guest clustering
Let’s compare Storage features
FC support iSCSI support FCoE support NFS support SMB support SAN integrationShare nothing live migration
VAAI / VASA ODX
supported by EMC/NetApp/IBM/Dell
Native VM replica Live storage migration
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Let’s compare I/O features
NIC teaming support Port ID virtualization
3rd Party switch
Distributed virtual switch Storage I/O control Network I/O control
It’s not all about the features
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What to do.
1. Sell VMware strengths
2. Avoid the Hyper-V 3 trap
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What to do.
1. Sell VMware strengths
2. Avoid the Hyper-V 3 trap
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Waiting costs €€
2012 2013 2014
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1-Q4
*Source: Gartner in the “Evolving Your Windows Server Environment” presentation at the 2011 Datacenter Conference
12-15 month maturation period*
(Test application compatibility, Build system images, Train IT staff, Run pilots)
Begin migration
You are Here
Wait for Windows Server 8 to ship
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What to do.
1. Sell VMware strengths
2. Avoid the Hyper-V 3 trap
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VMware more expensive?
VMware more expensive?
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Conclusion
So are we all going to migrate to Microsoft?
HyperV 3 improvements • Scalability: huge
• Availability: impressive
But is it enough to compete?
Scalability: same as others Availability: same as others
Unique features:
• Share nothing Migration
• Hyper-V Replica
• SMB support
And.. It’s still not here yet… And.. How about the cloud?
Hyper-V 3 is vSphere 4 (+)
But we’re already waiting for vSphere 6!
