Virtualization comparison & reviews

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Analysis expand Gica Livada
by Roman Macek The Virtualists
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  • Fully Supported
  • Limitation
  • Not Supported
  • Information Only
Pros
  • + pending
  • + not specified
  • + OVM subscription includes license for Enterprise Manager
  • + Use OVM to control Oracle Licenses for better TCO
  • + Default choice for Oracle apps (support)
Cons
  • - pending
  • - not specified
  • - Skills - OVM not as widely known as Vmware
  • - Xen Based - Market is working more toward KVM
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Enzo Raso (Citrix) and The VIRTUALIST
WhatMatrix
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Overview
XenServer 7 Standard Edition includes Citrix support. XenServer 7.0 Standard Edition includes the following new features:
-Health Check
-Open FCoE support
-Software-boot-from-iSCSI for Cisco UCS
-Support Windows Server Containers
-Greatly increased configuration limits for host and guest memory as well as physical and virtual CPUs
-Static guest IP setting

For Standard vs Enterprise edition, please check: http://bit.ly/2ddQiVL
vSphere 6.0 Standard - Click Here For Overview
Oracle VM 3.3 with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control and OpenStack
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Maturity
XenServer 7 Release date May 2016
Current Stable Release OVM 3.3: July 2nd 2014 - Initial Release Date - July 31st of 2008
  Pricing  
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Virtualization
Open Source (free) or two commercial editions, pricing for Standard Edition is: Annual: $345 / socket, Perpetual: $763 / socket - both including 1 year of software maintenance.
Std: $995/socket + S&S:$273 (B) or $323 (Prod);
Std + Ops Mgmt: $1995 / socket + S&S:$419 (B) or $499 (Prod)
Oracle VM Premier Limited for 2 Sockets Servers 1 Yr - $599.00; Oracle VM Premier for more than 2 Sockets Servers 1 Yr - $1,199.00;
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Management
Free (XenCenter)
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Bundle/Kit Pricing
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Guest OS Licensing
No
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  VM Mobility  
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Live Migration of VMs
Yes XenMotion (1)
Yes - Live Migration
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Migration Compatibility
Yes (Heterogeneous Pools)
Yes
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Maintenance Mode
Yes
Yes - Maintenance Mode
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Automated Live Migration
No Workload Balancing
Yes
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Power Management
No Workload Balancing
Yes
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Storage Migration
Yes (Storage XenMotion)
NEW
Yes
  HA/DR  
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Cluster Size
16 hosts / resource pool
32 Hosts in Cluster/Pool
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Integrated HA (Restart vm)
Yes
Yes - Clustered Pool
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Automatic VM Reset
No
Yes
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VM Lockstep Protection
No
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Application/Service HA
No
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Replication / Site Failover
Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control)
Yes
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Central Management
Yes (XenCenter)
Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
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Virtual and Physical
No
Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
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RBAC / AD-Integration
Yes (hosts/XenCenter)
Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
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Cross-Vendor Mgmt
No (native)
Yes (Vendor Add-On: CloudPlatform)
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Browser Based Mgmt
No (Web Self Service: retired)
Yes - Enhanced Web Client (with enhanced SSO), No BDE
Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
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Adv. Operation Management
No
Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
  Updates and Backup  
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Hypervisor Upgrades
The XenCenter released with XenServer 7.0 allows updates to be applied to all versions of XenServer (commercial and free)
NEW
Yes
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VM Patching
No
Yes
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Live VM Snapshot
yes
Yes - Hot Clones
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Backup Integration API
Limited
Yes
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Integrated Backup