 |
VMware VI
|
Microsoft WS08
|  |
Feature
|
Enterprise
|
Hyper-V R2/SMSE
| |
| 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 |
