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VMware VI 
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Microsoft WS08 
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Feature 
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Enterprise 
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Hyper-V R2/SMSE 
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| Bare-metal hypervisor |   ESX/ESXi |   Hyper-V | |
| Centralized hypervisor management |   Virtual Center |   SMSE (VMM) | |
| VMware and Microsoft management |   None |   SMSE (VMM) | |
| VM backup |   VCB (proxy only) |   SMSE (DPM) | |
| VM High availability/failover |   Virtual Center |   WS08 Clustering | |
| VM migration |   VMotion |   Live Migration | |
| Storage VMotion |   Yes |   Not yet | |
| Guest OS patching/management |   Yes |   SMSE (SCCM) | |
| End-to-end OS monitoring |   None |   SMSE (Ops Mgr) | |
| Host/VM level optimization |   DRS |   SMSE (PRO) | |
| Application/service monitoring |   None |   SMSE (PRO) | |
| Integrated physical and virtual management |   None  |   SMSE | |
                VMI: VMware Infrastructure              WS08: Windows Server 2008 R2 
VCB: VMware Consolidated Backup SMSE: System Center Server Management Suite VMM: Virtual Machine Manager DPM: Data Protection Manager  | 


 ESX/ESXi
 None

