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 |