Understanding How Microsoft Virtualization Compares to VMware

Jason FulenchekEnterprise Technology StrategistMicrosoft Corporation

SESSION CODE: VIR204

Roger JohnsonSr. Systems EngineerSyCom Technologies

How is Virtualization Being Used?Implement

VirtualizationLeverage

VirtualizationUse

Virtualization

Server Consolidation Energy & Space Reduction Application

Compatibility

Rapid Provisioning High Availability

Business Continuity

Dynamic Datacenters & Desktops Accelerated

IT as a Service

“Why is virtualization such a big deal? A lot of people understand, and they think it's about saving money, it's about saving power, it's about green IT, it's about space, and that's certainly true. But in our perspective, it's much, much bigger than that, and people are just now beginning to understand that. We think that there's a major transformation taking place in IT. This major transformation that's been taking place for years is starting to accelerate, and we believe that virtualization is a major enabler and catalyst of that transition that's taking place.”

- Tom Bittman, Gartner VP and Chief of Research of Infrastructure and Operations, at Microsoft’s Virtualization Launch Event

Session Virtualization

User StateVirtualization

ApplicationVirtualization

DesktopVirtualizatio

n

System Center ManagementFrom the Datacenter to the Desktop

ServerVirtualization

“Having one vendor for the hypervisor, operating

system, and much of our application software was

very appealing to us from a support and cost

perspective.”

Bert Van Pottelberghe, Sales Director, Hostbasket

Document redirection Offline files

Why Microsoft Virtualization?

Cloud to Data center to Desktop

Full range of products & solutions

Large partner eco-system

CompleteManagement

Physical and Virtual & Cross-hypervisor

In-Guest w/application & services

It’s the Platform you know

Tools you know

Key feature of platform

Best TCO/ROI

Lower costs upfront

Easier integration w/ existing systems

Lower ongoing costs

Built-in Virtualization

Virtualization built into the operating system with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ virtualization technologyVirtualization in the management platform with the Microsoft System Center suite of solutionsThree layers versus fourMicrosoft (existing knowledge and skills) vs. VMware (more training, support, costs)

Extensive, Unified Management

The key to virtualization is not the VMs but the applications that run in the VMs. Applications are what the end-users seeOnly Microsoft provides an integrated solution, with In-guest monitoring and optimization, allowing customers to manage both their virtual machines AND their applications and servicesVirtualized Datacenters and Clouds need comprehensive, physical and virtual management Only Microsoft System Center suite delivers

All integrated, all for one pricePhysical and virtual machines (Hyper-V and VMware)Host and in-guest management

The Microsoft solution is significantly cheaper than the equivalent VMware solution, while providing new capabilities (such as In-Guest Monitoring and PRO enabled optimization)No rip and replace for existing VMware customers

In-Guest Management and Monitoring

Integrate virtualization into existing tools, personnel, processes

Focus on applications, workloads running on virtual machines

Manage, monitor virtual machines just like physical machines

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 integrated with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

Datacenter Evolution

TraditionalDatacenter

Well-known, stable, and secureUtilization <15%

VirtualizedDatacenter

Utilization Increases to >50%Management Costs Decrease

On premisesdynamic Datacenter

- Cloud

Management Costs Decrease SignificantlyIT as a ServiceChargeback

Off premises dynamic Datacenter

- Cloud

Capacity on DemandGlobal Reach

Enterprise vSphere vs. Windows Server 2008 R2/ Server Management Suite Datacenter Comparison5 servers, 2 processor systems, with management server cost, 2 year maintenance, no operating system cost

vSphereStandard

vSphereAdvanced

vSphereEnterprise

vSphereEnterprise Plus

Server ManagementSuite Datacenter

PriceHypervisor + Management

Cost Difference

vSMP Support

Physical Memory

VM/OS Updates

HA/Clustering

Vmotion/Live Migration

Backup/Recovery

Hot Add

Fault Tolerance

Storage VMotion

DRS/PRO

vNetwork/Host Profiles

Physical Mgmt

In-guest Monitoring

Cross Hypervisor

$13,958+$7,318$21,276

$32,885+$7,318$40,203

$42,124+$7,318$49,442

$51,207+$7,318$58,525

$0+$9,698

$9,698

2.2x more 4.2x more 5,1x more 6xmore

4-way 4-way 4-way 4-way8-way

256GB 256GB 256GB 1TB 1TB

Storage

Quick

(Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2or existing Windows Server 2008 R2)

VMware ESXi 3 VMware ESXi 4Hyper-V Server

2008 R2

Price $0 $0 $0

Bare-metal Hypervisor 32-bit 64-bit 64-bit

Boot from Flash

Host Processors 32 Logical Processors 64 Logical Processors 64 Logical Processors

vSMP Support 4-way 4-way 4-way

Host Physical Memory 256GB 1TB 1TB

Virtual Machine Memory 64GB 255GB 64GB

Free Remote Management Client

Live Migration

High Availability/Failover Clustering

Host based console for configuration and troubleshooting

Compatibility with Centralized Multi-host Management

(vCenter/VMM)

(Only with per host upgrade to full VI3 license $2-4K)

(Only with per host upgrade to full vSphere license $2-

4K)

(free with VMM server

license, no per host cost)

Free Hypervisor Feature Comparison

Partners in Virtualization

PRESENTATIONDESKTOPAPPLICATION

One Management Approach

SERVER

Partners in Virtualization

PRESENTATIONDESKTOPAPPLICATION

One Management Approach

SERVER

Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

DATACENTERHOSTED VIRTUALDESKTOP

Citrix Branch Repeater ™

BRANCH OFFICE

Crutchfield Corporation

Roger JohnsonSr. Systems EngineerSyCom Technologies(Former Enterprise Systems Group, Team Lead at Crutchfield)

SESSION CODE: VIR204

Who is Crutchfield Corporation?

Crutchfield Corporation is a consumer electronics retailer that was founded in 1974. Since then, Crutchfield has grown to a highly innovative mail order and ecommerce business specializing in home and car electronics, catering to the do-it-yourselfers.www.crutchfield.com

Why Crutchfield Virtualized?Crutchfield’s constant innovation was causing a dramatic amount of physical server sprawl that challenged the capacity capabilities of their corporate datacenter. This growth caused Crutchfield to investigate ways to continue to innovate while spending less on implementation. Key cost areas that needed to be addressed were:

InfrastructureAdministrationHuman InterventionServer Power UtilizationCooling Requirements

It didn’t take long to learn that Microsoft Virtualization was the answer

Crutchfield’s Datacenter Snapshot Today

Datacenter is running 99% on Microsoft solution with the remaining 1% running on CentOS and RedHat LinuxCorporate Datacenter is 77% virtualized on Microsoft Virtualization

5 Virtual Host running Windows Hyper-V R2 in productionAverage VM Density is 45:1 (45 Virtual Machines Per Physical Host)Workloads consist of Domain Controller, SQL, RDS (Remote Desktop Services) and a number of call center applications

Crutchfield develops over 80% of their internal applications and 100% of those Test\Dev environments are virtualized on Hyper-V R2.Total Corporate Virtualized Environment

8 VM Hosts running over 250 Virtual Machines

Crutchfield turned their bloated physical and existing virtual environment from this…..

226 Existing and Planned Physical Server Deployments and a single VMWare ESX Host

…..to this after deploying Hyper-V

(5 Dell PowerEdge R900 Hosts running approximately 45 VM each)

The Crutchfield Result?By selecting to implement Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter with the Hyper-V role, we were able to achieve a 3x savings over the comparable VMware feature setInfrastructure and Licensing savings was so significant, that the savings exceeded the implementation costFTE hours recovered by implementing the System Center Suite of Tools (Virtual Machine Manger, Operations Manager and Configuration Manager), providing heterogeneous management, resource optimization and rapid provisioning all from a single pane of glassMajor power and cooling saving, turning an over-committed datacenter into a highly functional virtual environment that reduced BTU\h output by over 50%Crutchfield realized a saving of $500,000 by implementing Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization and Systems Center tools

Responding to FUD

Software footprint is important, not equal to securityWindows Server is mature, safe, secure, and performs well enough to deploy in your enterprise Hyper-V is a role of Windows Server – that’s goodVirtual Machine Manager doesn’t replace vCenterYou can use Microsoft management to simplify and add capabilities to an heterogeneous environmentMemory management is important, not free lunchMicrosoft provides a comprehensive platform and management solution

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Take the Next Step

Learn more about why Microsoft virtualization is a better all-around value than VMware @www.microsoft.com/vmwarecompareVisit our main Virtualization site @ www.microsoft.com/virtualization Read the white paper comparing Microsoft and VMware @ www.microsoft.com/virtualization/compare/vmware-comparison.mspxDownload a trial of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtualization built-in @www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspxDownload the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 bare metal hypervisor @ www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/en/us/r2.aspx

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