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In my previous article, I explained how to install and configure Azure Backup Server. This article explains how to configure Azure Backup Server to help protect VMware Server workloads. I am assuming that you already have Azure Backup Server installed. … Continue reading
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Azure Backup is used for backups and DR, and it works with managed disks as well as unmanaged disks. You can create a backup job with time-based backups, easy VM restoration, and backup retention policies. The following table is a … Continue reading
Azure Site Recovery orchestrates and manages disaster recovery for Azure VMs in Azure Cloud, and on-premises VMs in VMware, System Center VMM and physical servers. Prerequisites: VMware Virtual Server Azure Subscription Azure Virtual Network ExpressRoute between On-premises to Azure Network … Continue reading
Feature VMware vSphere System Center VMM 2012 R2 Standard vSwitch DV Switch Switch Features Yes Yes Yes Layer 2 Forwarding Yes Yes Yes IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging Yes Yes Yes Multicast Support Yes Yes Yes Network Policy – Yes Yes … Continue reading
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.
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Options |
vSphere 5.5 |
Hyper-v 2012 R2 |
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Host CPU Core |
320 (Previous version 160) |
320 |
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vCPU/Host |
2048 |
2,048 |
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vCPU/Guest |
64 (Previous version 8) |
64 |
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Host Memory |
4TB (Previous version 2TB) |
4TB |
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vRAM/VM |
1TB (Previous version 32GB) |
1TB |
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VM/Host |
2048 (previous version512) |
2048 |
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Maximum Node |
32 |
64 |
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Max VM/Cluster |
4000 |
8,000 |
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Networking |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
64TB (Previous version 2TB) |
64TB |
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Dynamic Memory |
Yes |
Yes |
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Resource Metering |
Yes (Previous version No) |
Yes |
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Hardware GPU |
Yes (Previous version No) |
Yes |
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Unified VDI |
No. Buy VMware View |
yes |
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Guest OS Application monitoring |
Yes (Previous version No) |
yes |
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Incremental Backups |
Yes (Previous version No) |
yes |
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VM Replication |
Yes (Previous version No) |
yes |
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Guest Clustering with Dynamic Memory |
No |
yes |
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Multi-tenant |
No (Buy VMware vCloud) |
yes |
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