Virtualization comparison & reviews

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Analysis expand Gica Livada
The Virtualists
by Roman Macek
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  • Fully Supported
  • Limitation
  • Not Supported
  • Information Only
Pros
  • + pending
  • + OVM subscription includes license for Enterprise Manager
  • + Use OVM to control Oracle Licenses for better TCO
  • + Default choice for Oracle apps (support)
  • + mature and feature-rich offering
  • + great ecosystem & support
  • + skills prevelant
Cons
  • - pending
  • - Skills - OVM not as widely known as Vmware
  • - Xen Based - Market is working more toward KVM
  • - needs clear strategy for public cloud future
  • - comprehensive capability but can become expensive
  • - NSX leading SDN solution but skills scarce
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Content Creator
The VIRTUALIST and Enzo Raso (Citrix)
WhatMatrix
THE VIRTUALIST
  Assessment  
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Overview
XenServer 7.1 Enterprise Edition includes features that are not available in the Standard Edition, focused on enterprise customers needs, as well as Citrix support:
- Live patching
- Conversion manager for vSphere
- Accelerate Citrix Provisioning Services performance

For Standard vs Enterprise edition, please check: http://bit.ly/2ddQiVL
NEW
Oracle VM 3.3 with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control and OpenStack
vSphere 6.5 with Operations Management Enterprise Plus - Click Here For Overview
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Maturity
XenServer 7.1 Release date February 2017
Current Stable Release OVM 3.3: July 2nd 2014 - Initial Release Date - July 31st of 2008
Release Dates:
vSphere 6.5 : November 15th 2016
  Pricing  
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Virtualization
Open Source (free) or two commercial editions, pricing for Standard Edition is: Annual: $695 / socket, Perpetual: $1525/ socket - both including 1 year of software maintenance.
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;
OM Ent+ :
$4,395/socket + S&S 1Y: $923 (B) or $1,099 (Prod)
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Management
Free (XenCenter)
$0.00
$5,995(Std) + $1,259(B) or $1,499 (P)
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Bundle/Kit Pricing
Yes
$0.00
yes
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Guest OS Licensing
No
VM Mobility and HA expand
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  VM Mobility  
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Live Migration of VMs
Yes XenMotion
Yes - Live Migration
Yes (vMotion)
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Migration Compatibility
Yes (Heterogeneous Pools)
Yes
Yes (EVC)
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Maintenance Mode
Yes
Yes - Maintenance Mode
Yes
NEW
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Automated Live Migration
Yes Workload Balancing
NEW
Yes
Yes (DRS) - CPU, Mem
NEW
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Power Management
Yes Workload Balancing
NEW
Yes
Yes (DPM)
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Storage Migration
Yes (Storage XenMotion)
NEW
Yes
Yes (Live Storage vMotion)
  HA/DR  
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Cluster Size
16 hosts / resource pool
32 Hosts in Cluster/Pool
max 64 nodes / 8000 vm per cluster
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Integrated HA (Restart vm)
Yes
Yes - Clustered Pool
Yes (VMware HA)
NEW
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Automatic VM Reset
No
Yes
Yes (VMware HA)
NEW
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VM Lockstep Protection
No
Yes (Fault Tolerance) 4 vCPUs.
NEW
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Application/Service HA
No
App HA
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Replication / Site Failover
Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control)
Yes
Yes (vSphere Replication)
DR Orchestration (Vendor Add-On: VMware SRM)
NEW
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  General  
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Central Management
Yes (XenCenter)
Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Yes (vCenter Server Standard)
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Virtual and Physical
Limited (plug-ins)
NEW
Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Limited (plug-ins)
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RBAC / AD-Integration
Yes (hosts/XenCenter)
Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Yes (vCenter and ESXi hosts)
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Cross-Vendor Mgmt
No (native)
Yes (Vendor Add-On: CloudPlatform)
vRealize Automation (Vendor Add-On)
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Browser Based Mgmt
Not directly with XenCenter but possible with XenOrchestra (Open Source)

More info: http://bit.ly/2m7FVIG
Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Yes (vSphere Web Client, HTML5 Web Client)
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Adv. Operation Management
No
Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Yes (VMware vRealize Operations)
  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)
XenServer 7.1 introduced Live patching
NEW
Yes
Yes (Update Manager)
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VM Patching
Yes
Yes
Limited (Update Manager)
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Live VM Snapshot
Yes
Yes - Hot Clones
Yes
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Backup Integration API
Limited
Yes
Yes (vStorage API Data Protection)
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Integrated Backup
No (Retired)
Yes (vSphere Data Protection) - Replication of backup data, granular backup and scheduling
  Deployment  
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Automated Host Deployments
No
Yes
Yes (Auto Deploy)
NEW
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VM Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes (Content Library)
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Tiered VM Templates
vApp
Yes
Yes (vApp/OVF)
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Host Profiles
No
Yes
Yes (Host Profiles)
NEW
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Storage Profiles
No
Yes (Storage Based Policy Management)
  Other  
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Resource Pools
No
Yes
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P2V
No (XenConvert: retired), V2V: yes
Yes
Yes (vCenter Converter)
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Self Service Portal
No (Web Self Service: retired)
Yes
No (native)
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: vCloud Suite, vRealize Automation)
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Orchestration / Workflows
Yes (Workflow Studio)
Yes
Yes (vRealize Orchestrator)
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Security
Direct Inspect APIs and Basic (NetScaler - Fee-Based Add-On)
Yes
Yes (ESXi Firewall, vShield Endpoint, VM Encryption)
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Systems Management
Yes (API / SDKs, CIM)
Yes
vSphere’s REST API, PowerCLI, vSphere CLI, ESXCLI, Datacenter CLI
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  Storage  
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Supported Storage
DAS, SAS, iSCSI, NAS, SMB, FC, FCoE, openFCoE
Yes
DAS, NFS, FC, iSCSI, FCoE (HW&SW), vFRC, SDDC
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SAN Multipath
Yes (limited for SAS)
Yes
Yes (enhanced APD and PDL) PDL AutoRemove
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Shared File System
Yes (SR)
Yes
Yes (VMFS v6)
NEW
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Boot From SAN
Yes (iSCSI, FC, FCoE)
Yes
Yes (FC, iSCSI, FCoE and SW FCoE)
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Boot from USB
No
Yes
Yes
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Virtual Disk Format
vhd, raw disk (LUN)
Raw Images (*.img files)
vmdk, raw disk (RDM)
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Max Disk Size
2TB
10 TB (Virtual Disk on OCFS2), Maximum supported on the Guest OS (Raw Disks)
64TB
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Thin Disk Provisioning
Yes (Limitations on block)
Yes
Yes
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NPIV Support
No
Yes (RDM only)
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Linked Images
Yes - Clone on boot, clone, PVS, MCS
Yes
No (native)
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: vCloud Suite, vRealize Automation)
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SW Storage Replication
No
Yes (vSphere Replication)
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Caching
IntelliCache and in-memory read cache
Yes (vSphere Flash Read Cache)
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Virtual SAN
No
No (native)
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: vSAN 6.5)
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Storage Integration (API)
Integrated StorageLink (deprecated)
Yes
Yes (VASA, VAAI and VAMP)
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Storage QoS
Basic
Yes (Storage IO Control )
  Networking  
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Advanced Network Switch
Yes (Open vSwitch) - vSwitch Controller
Yes
Yes (vDS)
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NIC Teaming
Yes (incl. LACP - New)
Yes
Yes (up to 32 NICs)
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VLAN
Yes (limited for mgmt. traffic)
Yes
Yes
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PVLAN
No
Yes
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IPv6
Yes (guests only)
Yes
Yes
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I/O Pass-Through
SR-IOV
Yes
Yes (SR-IOV and VMDirectPath)
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Jumbo Frames
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Offload Support
Yes (TSO)
Yes
Yes (TSO, NetQueue, iSCSI)
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Network QOS
Yes (outgoing)
Yes (NetIOC)
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Traffic Monitoring
Yes (Port Mirroring)
Yes
yes (Port Mirroring)
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  General  
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Hypervisor Details/Size
XenServer 7.1: Xen 4.7 -based
Xen Hypervisor - Bare Metal - Java Based Centralizaed Management Interface
Virtual Hardware version 13
  Host Config  
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Max Consolidation Ratio
1000 VMs per host
Max Virtual CPU per Host - 900
1024 VMs
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Max CPU / Host
288 (logical)
576 physical
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Max Cores per CPU
unlimited
unlimited
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Max Memory / Host
5TB
12TB
  VM Config  
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Max vCPU per VM
32
128
128 vCPU
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Max RAM per VM
1.5TB
2 TB
6TB
NEW
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Serial Ports
No
32 ports
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USB Support
No (except mass storage)
Yes (USB 1.x, 2.x and 3.x) with max 20 USB devices per vm
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Hot Add/Plug
Yes (disk, NIC)
Yes
Yes (CPU, Mem, Disk, NIC, PCIe SSD)
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Graphic Acceleration
Yes
Yes (NVIDIA vGPU)
  Memory  
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Dynamic / Over-Commit
Yes (DMC)
Yes (Memory Ballooning)
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Memory Page Sharing
No
Yes (Transparent Page Sharing)
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Large Pages
No
Yes
Yes
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HW Memory Translation
Yes
Yes
Yes
  Interoperability  
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OVF Support
Yes, incl. vApp
Yes
Yes
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HW Compatibility
Improving
Yes
Very Comprehensive (see link)
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Guest OS Support
Good
NEW
Yes
Very Comprehensive (see link)
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Container Support
Yes
Yes
NEW
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Scripting / APIs
Yes (SDK, API, PowerShell)
Yes
Web Services API/SDK, CIM, Perl, .NET, Java SDKs, Client Plug-In API, vSphere Clip, vMA
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Cloud API
CloudStack APIs, support for AWS API
Yes
vCloud API
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  Cloud  
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Overview Cloud
CloudPlatform; OpenStack
NEW
Oracle Enterprise Manager is capable of providing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
VMware Cloud Foundation
NEW
  Desktop Virtualization  
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Overview VDI
Citrix Desktop Virtualization (XenDesktop & XenApp 7.6 - NEW; ViaB; associated products)
VMware Horizon 7 (Vendor Add-On)
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Virtual SAN
no
vSAN 6.5 (Vendor Add-On)
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Application Management
Vendor Add-On: XenDesktop
Citrix Director
App Volumes
  3  
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Security Add On
Vendor Add-Ons: NetScaler Gateway, App Firewall, CloudBridge
NEW
NSX (Vendor Add-On)
  4  
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Workflow / Orchestration
Workflow Studio (incl.)
Yes
vRealize Orchestrator
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Site Failover
Integrated Site Recovery (incl.)
Yes
Site Recovery Manager (Vendor Add-On)
  6  
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Chargeback
Vendor Add-On: CloudPortal Business Manager, CloudStack Usage Server (Fee-Based Add-Ons)
NEW
Yes
vRealize Business (Vendor Add-On)
  7  
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Network Extensions
NSX (Vendor Add-on)

Matrix Score

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  • Citrix
  • Oracle
  • VMware
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