Virtualization comparison & reviews

Summary
Rank
5th 1st 2nd
Score
0%
0%
User Reviews
Question?
Not Enabled Not Enabled Not Enabled
Analysis expand Gica Livada
 		by Roman Macek by Roman Macek
Select All
General expand
0%
0%
0%
  • Fully Supported
  • Limitation
  • Not Supported
  • Information Only
Pros
  • + pending
  • + not specified
  • + Not Specified
Cons
  • - pending
  • - not specified
  • - Not Specified
  Content  
  •  
Content Creator
Enzo Raso (Citrix) and The VIRTUALIST
=BP12
  Assessment  
  •  
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 Enterprise - Click Here For Overview
  •  
Maturity
XenServer 7 Release date May 2016
=AU14
  Pricing  
  •  
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.
Ent: $2,875/socket + S&S:$604 (B) or $719 (Prod)
  •  
Management
Free (XenCenter)
=AU17
  •  
Bundle/Kit Pricing
No
=AU18
  •  
Guest OS Licensing
No
=AU19
VM Mobility and HA expand
0%
0%
0%
  VM Mobility  
  •  
Live Migration of VMs
Yes XenMotion (1)
Yes vMotion
- Cross vSwitch vMotion Only
  •  
Migration Compatibility
Yes (Heterogeneous Pools)
=AU27
  •  
Maintenance Mode
Yes
=AU28
  •  
Automated Live Migration
No Workload Balancing
Yes (DRS) - CPU, Mem - No Storage DRS.
  •  
Power Management
No Workload Balancing
=AU30
  •  
Storage Migration
Yes (Storage XenMotion)
NEW
=AU31
  HA/DR  
  •  
Cluster Size
16 hosts / resource pool
=AU32
  •  
Integrated HA (Restart vm)
Yes
=AU33
  •  
Automatic VM Reset
No
=AU34
  •  
VM Lockstep Protection
No
Yes (Fault Tolerance) 2 vCPUs.
  •  
Application/Service HA
No
No
  •  
Replication / Site Failover
Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control)
=AU37
Management expand
0%
0%
0%
  General  
  •  
Central Management
Yes (XenCenter)
=AU20
  •  
Virtual and Physical
No
=AU21
  •  
RBAC / AD-Integration
Yes (hosts/XenCenter)
=AU22
  •  
Cross-Vendor Mgmt
No (native)
Yes (Vendor Add-On: CloudPlatform)
=AU23
  •  
Browser Based Mgmt
No (Web Self Service: retired)
=AU24
  •  
Adv. Operation Management
No
=AU25
  Updates and Backup  
  •  
Hypervisor Upgrades
The XenCenter released with XenServer 7.0 allows updates to be applied to all versions of XenServer (commercial and free)
NEW
=AU38
  •  
VM Patching
No
=AU39
  •  
Live VM Snapshot
yes
=AU40
  •  
Backup Integration API
Limited
=AU41
  •  
Integrated Backup
No (Retired)
=AU42
  Deployment  
  •  
Automated Host Deployments