Virtual Infrastructure Products_ Features Comparison

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Virtual Infrastructure products: features comparison Back to the "Resources" web page on it20.info Virtual Infrastructure products: features comparison LAST UPDATED on 3rd April 2008 This is a refrence table for those interesting in comparing features of the virtual infrastrcuture solutions available today for the x86 platform. Any feedback please send me a private e-mail to [email protected]. Disclosures: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● I have limited the scope to x86 virtualization solutions Virtualization is such a broad topic that I have decided to limit this table to hardware virtualization only solutions. The only exceptions as of today are "SW Virtuozzo" and "Solaris Containers" which do not implement hw virtualization but rather OS virtualization. For a description of these various virtualization tehcnologies check this article. I have limited the solutions and the ISV to what I personally believe to be those that currently matter for the commercial/enterprise customers. To shape/structure and fill this table I have collected feedbacks from various communities and other tables I came across in the last few months (thanks to Andreas Groth for his inputs). I am trying to maintain this page for the sake of the community ... not to get credit for a work that others have been doing and I am only integrating here. It's proving to be very difficult to rate thorugh a simple yes/no table the value of a solution over the other. This is becoming even more challanging since most ISV's are pushing into the value-add features rather than the pure hypervisor ... .... but since so many people are looking for such a table I decided to try .... If you are one one the ISV's mentioned below feel free to send me feedbacks and suggestions to the email address above. Some of the info in the tables are facts. Other info are opinion of the author and as such should be treated. Structure of the Comparison: ● ● ● ● High-level info and general market scenario (this will position the offering in the market) Host/Hypervisor specific information/characteristics (this will high-light the hypervisor features) Virtual Machines specific information/characteristics (this will high-light the potential virtual environments characteristics) Infrastructure Management specific information/characteristics (this will enlarge the scope to the out-of-the box infrastruxture management features) r: the feature is not available a: the feature is available N.A.: Not Applicable VMware www.vmware.com Microsoft www.microsoft.com Server (w/ Hyper-V (w/ VMM) Virtual Center) today estimated 2H 2008 Virtual Server (w/ VMM) today Citrix www.citrix.com XenServer Enterprise today XenServer Standard today Extended Enterprise today VirtualIron www.virtualiron.com Suse/Novell www.suse.com Red Hat www.redhat.com Sun www.sun.com Parallels www.swsoft.com VI3 Enterprise Shipping Date Version today VI3 Standard today 3.5 VI3 Foundation today 3.5 XenServer Platinum today XenServer Express today Enterprise today 4.2 SingleServer today SLES today RHES today Solaris Containers today 10 Virtuozzo today Shipping Date Version 4.0 (for Linux) 3.5 1.0 N.A. 2005 R2 SP1 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.2 10 5 4.0 (for Windows) Virtualization model HW HW HW virtualization HW virtualization virtualization virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization HW virtualization OS Virtualization OS Virtualization Virtualization model Virtualization model (type1=hypervisor, type2=hosted) type 1 type 1 type 1 type 2 type 1 type 2 type 1 type 1 type 1 type 1 type 1 type 1 type 1 type 1 type 1 N.A. (not a hypervisor / hosted solution) N.A. (not a hypervisor / hosted solution) Virtualization model (type1=hypervisor, type2=hosted) Hypervisor nature ESX (VMware proprietary) ESX (VMware proprietary) ESX (VMware proprietary) N.A. (not a hypervisor) Viridian (MS proprietary) Enterprises, Small Enterprises, Workgroups N.A. N.A. (not a hypervisor) Xen derivative Xen derivative Xen derivative Xen derivative Xen derivative Xen derivative Xen derivative Xen derivative Xen derivative N.A.(not a hypervisor) N.A.(not a hypervisor) Hosting providers / Enterprises Somewhat Hypervisor nature Target Enterprises Small Enterprises Small Enterprises Workgroups Workgroups Enterprises Enterprises Workgroups Test /pilots Enterprises Workgroups Test / pilots Enterprises Enterprises Enterprises Target Maturity Highest Highest Highest High Somewhat Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal High Maturity http://www.it20.info/misc/virtualizationscomparison.htm (1 de 5) [04/04/2008 21:02:01] Virtual Infrastructure products: features comparison Market Acceptance Hardware Vendors Commitment Software Vendors Commitment HW officially supported Highest Highest Highest High N.A. Somewhat Limited/Moderate Limited/Moderate Limited/Moderate Limited/Moderate Limited/Moderate Limited/Moderate Limited/Moderate Limited Limited Limited Moderate Market Acceptance Hardware Vendors Commitment Software Vendors Commitment HW officially supported Highest Highest Highest N.A. Highest N.A. High High High High Limited Limited Limited High High Limited Limited Highest Highest Highest Moderate Highest Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate Limited Limited Limited Limited Limited Limited Limited Moderate Moderate Moderate Broadest Broadest Broadest Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate Limited Limited Limited Broad Broad Limited Broadest Cost High Medium Low Free/Low Free/Low Free/Low Medium/High Medium Low Free Low Low Free Free/Low Free/Low Free (ships with Solaris) Low/Medium Cost Support for heterogenous OS'es on same host Performance relative to "native" Performance overhead Scalability (# of virtual environments per system) Virtual Machine self containment Virtual Disk format a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a r r Support for heterogenous OS'es on same host Performance relative to "native" Performance overhead Scalability (# of virtual environments per system) Virtual Machine self containment Virtual Disk format Good Good Good Medium Good Medium Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Very Good Very Good Minimal Minimal Minimal Medium Minimal Medium Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal Minmal Negligible Negligible High High High Medium High Medium High High High Poor (license restricted) High High High High High Very High Very High a VMDK format a VMDK format a VMDK format a VMDK format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format a VHD format r r N.A. N.A. Guest OS images reduction r r r r r r a (Citrix Provisioning Server) r r r r r r r r a a Guest OS images reduction Host Characteristcs Max # CPU's Max Memory SAN MPIO NIC fault tolerance VLAN Support 32 logical processors 256GB 32 logical processors 256GB 32 logical processors 256GB 16 logical processors 64GB Host OS dependent Host OS dependent Host OS dependent Host OS dependent 16 logical processors 2TB 64-sockets 256GB Host OS dependent 32 logical processors 128GB r 32 logical processors 128GB r 2 sockets (license restricted) 128GB r 2 sockets (license restricted) 4GB r 32 logical processors 128GB 32 logical processors 128GB Host Characteristcs Host OS dependent Max # CPU's Host OS dependent Max Memory Host OS dependent SAN MPIO Host OS dependent NIC fault tolerance r VLAN Support a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a (dedicated only / not shared) a a a a a a a a a r a (via CLI) a a a (via CLI) a a a (via CLI) a a a (via CLI) r SCSI disk support for vm files (dedicated only / not shared) (dedicated only / (dedicated only / not shared) not shared) a a a N.A. a SCSI disk support for vm files a SAS disk support for vm files (dedicated only / not shared) a a (dedicated only / (dedicated only / not shared) not shared) Host OS dependent a (dedicated only / not shared) a a a a a a a a N.A. a SAS disk support for vm files IDE/SATA disk support for vm files NAS disk support for vm files iSCSI disk support for vm files (HW initiator) a a a a a a a a a Host OS dependent Host OS dependent Host OS dependent a (dedicated only / not shared) a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a (dedicated only / not shared) a a r a a r a r N.A. a a a IDE/SATA disk support for vm files NAS disk support for vm files iSCSI disk support for vm files (HW initiator) a a N.A. (dedicated only / not shared) r N.A. http://www.it20.info/misc/virtualizationscomparison.htm (2 de 5) [04/04/2008 21:02:01] Virtual Infrastructure products: features comparison iSCSI disk support for vm files (SW initiator) FC disk support for vm files Live Snapshot of virtual environments Clustered File System Physical Memory overcommitment CPU Resource Management (QoS) Memory Resource Management (QoS) Disks Resource Management (QoS) Network Resource Management (QoS) Support for Cisco Dicovery Protocol Support for Infiniband Support for 10Gbit Ethernet Support for TOE cards Support for NPIV Hypervisor boot from local drives Hypervisor boot from flash Hypervisor boot from network Hypervisor boot from SAN Hypervisor boot from iSCSI Support for Linux paravirtualization Support for Windows paravirtualization a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a r a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a r a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a r Host OS dependent Host OS dependent a a a r r a a a r r a a (via CLI) a a (via CLI) a a (via CLI) a a (via CLI) a a a r r a a a r r r N.A. a a N.A. r iSCSI disk support for vm files (SW initiator) FC disk support for vm files Live Snapshot of virtual environments Clustered File System Physical Memory overcommitment CPU Resource Management (QoS) Memory Resource Management (QoS) Disks Resource Management (QoS) Network Resource Management (QoS) Support for Cisco Dicovery Protocol r N.A. a r a r r a r r a r r r a r r r a r r a r a a a a a a r a r a a a a r r a a a a r r a r a r a r r r r r a a r r r r r r r r Host OS dependent Host OS dependent Host OS dependent r N.A. N.A N.A. N.A. N.A. r No r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. No N.A. a a a a a a r Host OS dependent Host OS dependent Host OS dependent r N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. r Minimal (through VS Tools) a a N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. Support for Infiniband Support for 10Gbit Ethernet Support for TOE cards Support for NPIV Hypervisor boot from local drives Hypervisor boot from flash Hypervisor boot from network Hypervisor boot from SAN Hypervisor boot from iSCSI Support for Linux paravirtualization Support for Windows paravirtualization a r r a r r a r r a r r a a r a a r a a r a a r a r r a r r a a a No a a a No a a a No a a a Yes (for selected guests only) a r a r a r a r a Minimal (through Xentools) a Minimal (through Xentools) a Minimal (through Xentools) a Minimal (through Xentools) Minimal (through Minimal (through Minimal (through VStools) VStools) VStools) Minimal (through Minimal (through Minimal (through VStools) VStools) VStools) VM Characteristics 32-bit Guests require AMD-V or Intel-VT 64-bit Guests require AMD-V or Intel-VT AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (was NPT) support Max # of vCPU's x Linux vm's Max # of vCPU's x Windows vm's Max Memory Max # of virtual disks Max # of virtual nics NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows 2003 x32 No Intel CPU's only No No No Intel CPU's only Yes Yes Windows Guests Only Windows Guests Only Windows Guests Only Windows Guests Only Windows Guests Only Windows Guests Only Windows Guests Only Windows Guests Only Yes Yes Yes No VM Characteristics 32-bit Guests require AMD-V or Intel-VT 64-bit Guests require AMD-V or Intel-VT AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (was NPT) support Max # of vCPU's x Linux vm's Max # of vCPU's x Windows vm's Max Memory Max # of virtual disks Max # of virtual nics NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows 2003 x32 Intel CPU's only Intel CPU's only Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No 4 4 64GB 15 per 4 vSCSI Adapters 4 4 4 64GB 15 per 4 vSCSI Adapters 4 4 4 64GB 15 per 4 vSCSI Adapters 4 2 2 3.6GB 15 per 4 vSCSI Adapters 4 4 4 64GB 256 1 1 3.6GB 7 per 4 vSCSI Adapters 4 8 8 32GB 7 7 r 8 8 32GB 7 7 r 8 8 32GB 7 7 r 8 8 4GB 7 7 r 8 8 32GB 8 8 32GB 1 Host-limited Host-limited Host-limited N.A. 5 r 5 r 5 r r r r N.A. r r a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a http://www.it20.info/misc/virtualizationscomparison.htm (3 de 5) [04/04/2008 21:02:01] Virtual Infrastructure products: features comparison Windows 2003 x64 Windows 2008 x32 Windows 2008 x64 Windows XP x32 Windows XP x64 Windows Vista x32 Windows Vista x64 RH Linux Enterprise x32 RH Linux Enterprise x64 SUSE Linux Enterprise x32 SUSE Linux Enterprise x64 Netware Mandriva Linux Mandrake Linux Ubuntu Linux TurboLinux Debian FreeBSD CentOS Sun Solaris Mac OS X Oracle Unbreakable a r r a r r a r r a r r a a a a a a a a a a a r r r r r r r r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r r r r r r r r r r r r a r r r r r r Windows 2003 x64 Windows 2008 x32 Windows 2008 x64 Windows XP x32 Windows XP x64 Windows Vista x32 Windows Vista x64 RH Linux Enterprise x32 RH Linux Enterprise x64 SUSE Linux Enterprise x32 SUSE Linux Enterprise x64 Netware Mandriva Linux Mandrake Linux Ubuntu Linux TurboLinux Debian FreeBSD CentOS Sun Solaris Mac OS X Oracle Unbreakable a r a a a a a a a a a r r a a a a a a a a a r r a a a a a a a a a r r a a a a a a a a a a a r a r r r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a a a a r r r r r a a a a r r r r r a a a a r r r r r a a a a r r r r r a a a a r r r r r r r a a a a r r r r r r r a a a a r r r r r r r a a a a r r r a r r r r r r r r r a r r r r r r r r r a r r r r a r r r r a r r r r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r r r r r a r r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a r r a a a a a a a Infrastructure Management Centrilized Management Console Web Based Console Role Based Security Infrastructure Management a a a a a a a a a a a r a a a r a a a r a r a a a r a r a r a r r r a a r a a r r a a a Centrilized Management Console Web Based Console Role Based Security a r a r (Quick Migration) r r r r (Windows only) Host Live Migration Storage Live Migration Resource Pool (partial resources delegation) Intelligent Live Migration Intelligent Power Management HA External API's Integrated P2V Templates Support Integrated Hypervisor patching Integrated vm's patching a r a r r r a r a r a r (Linux only) Host Live Migration Storage Live Migration Resource Pool Support (partial resources delegation) Intelligent Live Migration Intelligent Power Management HA External API's Integrated P2V Templates Support Integrated Hypervisor patching Integrated vm's patching r r r r r r r r r r N.A r a r a r r a r a r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r a r a r r r r r r Experimental r r Through Host OS features r r r r r r r r r r r a a a a a a a a a a a a r a a a a a a a a a a N.A. r r r r a a a a r r r r r r a a a a r r a a a a a a r a a (Linux only) a a (Linux only) a a (Linux only) a a a r r a r a r r a a r a r r a r r a r r a r r a N.A. a a http://www.it20.info/misc/virtualizationscomparison.htm (4 de 5) [04/04/2008 21:02:01] Virtual Infrastructure products: features comparison Integrated backup framework a a a a r (Selected Guests only) a (Selected Guests only) r r r r r r r Integrated backup framework Resources usage (Historical Data) a a a a r r r r r r r Resources usage (Historical Data) VI3 Enterprise VI3 Standard VI3 Foundation Server (w/ Hyper-V (w/ VMM) Virtual Center) Virtual Server (w/ VMM) XenServer Platinum XenServer Enterprise XenServer Standard XenServer Express Extended Enterprise Enterprise SingleServer SLES RHES Solaris Containers Virtuozzo VMware Microsoft Citrix VirtualIron Suse/Novell Red Hat Sun Parallels Back to the "Resources" web page on it20.info http://www.it20.info/misc/virtualizationscomparison.htm (5 de 5) [04/04/2008 21:02:01]