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Enzo Raso (Citrix) and The VIRTUALIST
Content created by Virtualizationmatrix; (Contributors: Jon Benedict, Yaniv Dary, Raissa Tona, Larry W. Bailey)
  Assessment  
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Overview
XenServer 7 Enterprise Edition includes features that are not available in the Standard Edition, focussed on enterprise customers needs, as well as Citrix support: Enterprise only features with XenServer 7.0 are:
Microsoft Windows Update for IO Drivers
SMB (CIFS)
Storage read caching for MCS
Virtual GPU via Intel GVT-g
Windows agent auto-update (self-update)
Comtrade Management Pack
Export Pool Resource list from XenCenter
Conversion Manager appliance
WLB appliance
Measured Boot Supp. Pack
Direct Inspect APIs for memory introspection

For Standard vs Enterprise edition, please check: http://bit.ly/2ddQiVL
RHV 4.1 - Click Here For Details
vSphere 5.5 Remote Office Branch Office Advanced - Click Here For Overview
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Maturity
XenServer 7 Release date May 2016
RHV 4.1 released in April 2017
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  Pricing  
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Virtualization
Open Source (free) or two commercial editions, pricing for Enterprise Edition is: Annual: $695 / socket, Perpetual: $1525 / socket - both including 1 year of software maintenance
Included in hypervisor subscription
Pack of 25 Virtual Machines : $4500 + S&S:$945 (B) or $1125 (Prod);
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Management
Free (XenCenter)
Yes, combined RHEL and RHV offering 26% savings
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Bundle/Kit Pricing
No
RHV: No included (RHEL: 4/unlimited)
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Guest OS Licensing
No
Yes (RHV-M)
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  VM Mobility  
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Live Migration of VMs
Yes XenMotion (1)
Yes
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Migration Compatibility
Yes (Heterogeneous Pools)
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Maintenance Mode
Yes
Yes - Built-in (CPU\Memory) and plugable scheduler
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Automated Live Migration
Yes Workload Balancing
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Yes
No
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Power Management
Yes Workload Balancing
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Yes
No
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Storage Migration
Yes (Storage XenMotion)
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200 hosts/cluster
  HA/DR  
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Cluster Size
16 hosts / resource pool
Yes
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Integrated HA (Restart vm)
Yes
Yes (HA, WatchDog)
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Automatic VM Reset
No
No
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VM Lockstep Protection
No
No (native);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: Red Hat Cluster Suite)
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Application/Service HA
No
No - See Details
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Replication / Site Failover
Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control)
Yes
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  General  
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Central Management
Yes (XenCenter)
Third-party plug-in framework
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Virtual and Physical
No
Yes
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RBAC / AD-Integration
Yes (hosts/XenCenter)
No (native)
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: CloudForms)
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Cross-Vendor Mgmt
No (native)
Yes (Vendor Add-On: CloudPlatform)
Yes (RHV-M, Power User Portal)
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Browser Based Mgmt
No (Web Self Service: retired)
Yes (extended functionality with CloudForms - Fee-Based Add On)
Yes - Enhanced Web Client (with enhanced SSO), No BDE
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Adv. Operation Management
No
Yes
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  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)
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Yes (Red Hat Network)
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VM Patching
Yes
Yes; Including RAM
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Live VM Snapshot
yes
Yes
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Backup Integration API
Limited
No
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Integrated Backup
No (Retired)
No (native);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: Satellite 6)
  Deployment  
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Automated Host Deployments
No
Yes
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VM Templates
Yes
No (native);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: CloudForms, Ansible)
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Tiered VM Templates
vApp
Yes (limited native);
Advanced options with Vendor Add-On: Satellite
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Host Profiles
No
No
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Storage Profiles
No
Yes
  Other  
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Resource Pools
No
V2V, P2V
Limited (host-level only)
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P2V
No (XenConvert: retired), V2V: yes
User Portal
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Self Service Portal
No (Web Self Service: retired)
RHV supports the most common server and technical workstation OSs as well as PPC guests, current support includes:
For X86_64 hosts:
- Microsoft Windows 10, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Microsoft Windows 7, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Microsoft Windows 8, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Microsoft Windows 8.1, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Tier 1, 64 bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Tier 1, 64 bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Tier 1, 64 bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Tier 1, 32\64 bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Tier 2, 32\64 bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, Tier 2, 32\64 bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, Tier 2, 32\64 bit

For PPC hosts:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Tier 1, LE\BE
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Tier 1, BE
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, Teir 2, LE
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4, Teir 2, BE
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Orchestration / Workflows
Yes (Workflow Studio)
sVirt, SELinux, iptables, VLANs, Port Mirroring
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Security
Direct Inspect APIs and Basic (NetScaler - Fee-Based Add-On)
Agent-based, CIM, SNMP
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Systems Management
Yes (API / SDKs, CIM)
RHV-H or RHEL with KVM - details here
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  Storage  
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Supported Storage
DAS, SAS, iSCSI, NAS, SMB, FC, FCoE, openFCoE
Yes (FC, FCoE, iSCSI)
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SAN Multipath
Yes (limited for SAS)
Yes
Yes (no API for multipath)
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Shared File System
Yes (SR)
Yes
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Boot From SAN
Yes (iSCSI, FC, FCoE)
Yes
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Boot from USB
No
RAW, Qcow2
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Virtual Disk Format
vhd, raw disk (LUN)
Default max virtual disk size is 8TB (but its configurable in RHV DB)
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Max Disk Size
2TB
Yes
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Thin Disk Provisioning
Yes (Limitations on block)
Yes (Limited)
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NPIV Support
No
Yes
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Linked Images
Yes - Clone on boot, clone, PVS, MCS
No (native);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: Red Hat Gluster Storage)
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SW Storage Replication
No
FS-Cache
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Caching
IntelliCache and in-memory read cache
Yes
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Virtual SAN
No
Yes (Limited)
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Storage Integration (API)
Integrated StorageLink (deprecated)
Yes (Quota, Storage I/O SLA)
No
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Storage QoS
Basic
Various new enhancements + Neutron Integration (Tech Preview) - click for details
  Networking  
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Advanced Network Switch
Yes (Open vSwitch) - vSwitch Controller
Yes
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NIC Teaming
Yes (incl. LACP - New)
Yes
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VLAN
Yes (limited for mgmt. traffic)
Yes (via host hooks)
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PVLAN
No
Guests fully, hypervisors partially
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IPv6
Yes (guests only)
Yes
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I/O Pass-Through
SR-IOV
Yes
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Jumbo Frames
Yes
TOE
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Offload Support
Yes (TSO)
Yes (vNIC Profile)
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Network QOS
Yes (outgoing)
Yes (Port Mirroring)
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Traffic Monitoring
Yes (Port Mirroring)
Yes (virtio), Mem Balloon optimization and error messages
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  General  
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Hypervisor Details/Size
XenServer 7.0: Xen 4.6 -based
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No limit stated
  Host Config  
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Max Consolidation Ratio
1000 VMs per host
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x86: 288
PPC: 192
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Max CPU / Host
288 (logical)
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Unlimited
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Max Cores per CPU
unlimited
x86: 12TB
PPC: 2TB
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Max Memory / Host
5TB
240 vCPUs per VM
4TB (EXCLUDING Reliable Memory Technology)
  VM Config  
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Max vCPU per VM
32
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4TB
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Max RAM per VM
1.5TB
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Yes
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Serial Ports
No
Yes
Yes (no vSPC)
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USB Support
No (except mass storage)
Yes
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Hot Add/Plug
Yes (disk, NIC)
Yes (RHV 4.2 full support)
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Graphic Acceleration
Yes
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DAS, iSCSI, NFS, GlusterFS, FC, POSIX;
Virtio SCSI support
  Memory  
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Dynamic / Over-Commit
Yes (DMC)
Yes (KSM)
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Memory Page Sharing
No
Yes
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Large Pages
No
Yes
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HW Memory Translation
Yes
Yes
  Interoperability  
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OVF Support
Yes, incl. vApp
Comprehensive
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HW Compatibility
Improving
Limited
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Guest OS Support
Good
NEW
Yes (Limited);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform)
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Container Support
REST API, Python CLI, Hooks,
Python/Java/Ruby SDKs, Ansible
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Scripting / APIs
Yes (SDK, API, PowerShell)
REST API
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Cloud API
CloudStack APIs, support for AWS API
RHCI: CloudForms, OpenStack, RHV; Satelite, OpenShift (Fee-Based Add-Ons)
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  Cloud  
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Overview Cloud
CloudPlatform; OpenStack
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VDI Included in RHV; HTML5 support (Tech Preview)
  Desktop Virtualization  
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Overview VDI
Citrix Desktop Virtualization (XenDesktop & XenApp 7.6 - NEW; ViaB; associated products)
Yes
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Virtual SAN
no
3rd Party
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Application Management
Vendor Add-On: XenDesktop
EdgeSight, Director
sVirt & Security Partnerships
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Security Add On
Vendor Add-Ons: NetScaler Gateway, App Firewall, CloudBridge
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Ansible 2.3 oVirt modules
  4  
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Workflow / Orchestration
Workflow Studio (incl.)
No - See Details
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Site Failover
Integrated Site Recovery (incl.)
Vendor Add-On: CloudForms
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Chargeback
Vendor Add-On: CloudPortal Business Manager, CloudStack Usage Server (Fee-Based Add-Ons)
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Vendor Add-Ons: Load Balancer, High Performance
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Network Extensions
NSX (Vendor Add-on)

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