Hyper V vs VMware : Detailed Comparison

Hyper V vs VMware

In computing, virtualization refers to the act of engendering a virtual version of one thing, as well as virtual constituent platforms, storage contrivances, and electronic network resources. On a very broad level, there are 3 styles of Server Virtualization –

• Full virtualization
• Para-virtualization
• OS-level virtualization.

A hypervisor, conjointly referred to as a virtual machine monitor, is a method that makes and runs virtual machines (VMs). A hypervisor permits one host laptop to support multiple guest VMs by nearly sharing its resources, like memory and process.

Generally, there are a unit 2 kinds of hypervisors. Type-1 hypervisors, which is also known as “bare metal,” runs directly on the host’s hardware. Type-2 hypervisors, also known as “hosted,” run as a package layer, like alternative laptop programs.

 What is Hyper V?

Hyper-V functions by running each VM in their respective isolated space, while leveraging the same hardware. Each Virtual Machine in this scenario may have their own Operating system independent of other VMs. Infact, such logical partitioning by virtualization helps keep the issues like crashing etc local to the VM while other workloads can run independently.

Related – Hypervisor in cloud computing

Editions of Hyper V are as below:

• Windows Server Data center
• Windows Server Standards
• Windows Server Essentials

Supported OS by Hyper-V:

• CentOS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Debian
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE
• Ubuntu
• FreeBSD

What Is VMware?

VMware is a company that provides platform for virtualization. Vmware was launched in year 1998 in Palo Alto, California. The first virtualization software was VMware Workstation. In year 2001, VMWare GSX Server and VMWare ESX server were introduced in the market. It is notable that majority of the VMware virtualization software programs are for business use.

VMware vSphere is a server virtualization platform created by VMware. Basically, vSphere encompasses a collection of virtualization products that hold the ESXi hypervisor, vSphere shopper, VMware digital computer, vCenter, and others.

Editions of VMware are:

• VMware vSphere Standard
• VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
• VMware vSphere Operations Management Enterprise Plus
• VMware vSphere Platinum

Below are the Supported OS by VMware:

• Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 Quarterly Update 3
• Asianux 4 SP4
• Solaris 11.2
• Ubuntu 12.04.5
• Ubuntu 14.04.1
• Oracle Linux 7
• FreeBSD 9.3
• OS X 10.10.

Hyper V vs VMware:

Licensing support of Hyper V and VMware:

• Physical CPU support available in Hyper V but limited in VMware.
• OSE license support is available in both.
• Windows server VM license support is available per host.
• Antivirus and malware protection is supported by both.
• A web-based management console support is available in both.

Storage Capabilities of Hyper V and VMware:

• ISCSI/FC support available in both.
• Network file system support available in both.
• Virtual fiber channel support available in both.
• 3^rd Party multipathing is available in both.
• Storage tearing and Virtualization is available in both.

Network Capabilities of Hyper V and VMware:

• IPsec task offload is available in Hyper V but not in VMware.
• Virtual receive side scaling is available in both.
• SR-IOV with live migration is supported in Hyper-V but not in VMware.
• Dynamic Virtual Machine queue is available in both.

Technical feature comparison (Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 vs Vmware vSphere 6.7)

• System Logical CPU
  • Hyper-V on Win Server 2016 supports 512
  • Vmware vSphere 6.7 supports 768.
• System Physical RAM
  • 24 TB for Hyper-V
  • 16 TB for Vmware vSphere.
• Virtual CPUs and VM per host
  • 2048 and 1024 respectively for Hyper-V
  • 4096 and 1024 respectively for Vmware vSphere
• Virtual CPUs per VM
  • In case of Hyper-V (Win server 2016)
    • 240 for Gen2 VMs
    • 64 for Gen1 VMs
    • 320 for host OS
  • In case of Vmware vSphere 6.7
    • 128
• Memory per VM
  • For Hyper-V, its 12 TB for Gen2 VM and 1 TB for Gen1 VM
  • In case of vSphere, it is 6128 GB
• Maximum Virtual Disk Size
  • For Hyper-V, its 64 TB (VHDX) and 2040 GB (VHD)
  • In case of vSphere, it is 62 TB
• Number of Virtual SCSI disks
  • Both support 256 SCSI disks
• Maximum number of VMs per cluster
  • Both support 8000 VMs per cluster

 Some PROS and CONS of Hyper V:

Some PROS and CONS of VMware:

Summary

Hyper V and VMware are both extremely powerful hypervisors on which you can run your enterprise data center production workloads. Each have various characteristics that make them unique. Each of these characteristics serve the basis on which many make the decision to go with one hypervisor or another for running their enterprise data centres.