Is VMware catching up with Microsoft? Yes you heard correct. I said “VMware is catching up with Microsoft” VMware released a latest update vSphere 5.5 to catch up with Microsoft Windows server 2012 R2. Here is a short comparison of VMware improvement to catch up with Hyper-v 2012 R2.
Options
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vSphere 5.5
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Hyper-v 2012 R2
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Host CPU Core
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320 (Previous version 160)
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320
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vCPU/Host
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2048
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2,048
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vCPU/Guest
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64 (Previous version 8)
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64
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Host Memory
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4TB (Previous version 2TB)
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4TB
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vRAM/VM
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1TB (Previous version 32GB)
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1TB
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VM/Host
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2048 (previous version512)
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2048
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Maximum Node
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32
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64
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Max VM/Cluster
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4000
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8,000
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Networking
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Link Aggregation Control Protocol Enhancements
Traffic Filtering
Quality of Service Tagging
SR-IOV Enhancements
Enhanced Host-Level Packet Capture
40GB NIC support
10GigE Simultaneous Live Migrations is only for 8 Vms
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Support for SR-IOV networking devices
Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue (D-VMQ)
Accelerating Network I/O
IPsec Task Offload for Virtual Machines
Metering virtual machine use in a multitenant environment
IP Address Management (IPAM)
Hyper-V Network Virtualization
Hyper-V Extensible Switch
Quality of Service (QoS)
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) WAN Optimizations
WebSocket Protocol
Server Name Indicator (SNI)
Direct Access and VPN
Private VLANS (PVLANS)
Trunk Mode to Virtual Machines
Unlimited 10GigE Simultaneous Live Migrations
Site-to-site network connections using private IP address
Cisco NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation)
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Storage
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Support for 62TB VMDK
MSCS Updates
vSphere 5.1 Feature Updates
16GB E2E support
PDL AutoRemove
vSphere Replication Interoperability
vSphere Replication Multi-Point-in-Time Snapshot Retention
vSphere Flash Read Cache
64TB VMFS
64TB RDM
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64TB VHDX
VHD de-duplication
high availability, performance, reliability, and scalability features on inexpensive commodity storage
Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
Resilient File System
Deploy large NTFS volumes
Thin Provisioning and
And Trim
Cluster Shared Volume version 2
iSCSI Software Target
Support for VMware Virtual Machines and NFS 4.1
High Performance Highly Available Storage with SMB
SMB Scale-Out
Virtual Fiber Channel
256TB+ pass through disk (RDM)
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Local Storage
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64TB (Previous version 2TB)
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64TB
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Dynamic Memory
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Yes
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Yes
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Resource Metering
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Yes (Previous version No)
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Yes
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Hardware GPU
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Yes (Previous version No)
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Yes
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Unified VDI
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No. Buy VMware View
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yes
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Guest OS Application monitoring
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Yes (Previous version No)
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yes
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Incremental Backups
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Yes (Previous version No)
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yes
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VM Replication
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Yes (Previous version No)
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yes
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Guest Clustering with Dynamic Memory
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No
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yes
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Multi-tenant
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No (Buy VMware vCloud)
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yes
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