Comparing the Microsoft Private Cloud & the VMware vCloudMatt McSpiritTechnical Product ManagerMicrosoft

MDC-B352

2 Part Series

Part I – Comparing Hypervisors

Part II – Comparing Private Clouds

Hypervisor

VM Management

AutomationService Mgmt.

Monitoring

Self-Service

vSphere Hypervisor

vCenter Server

vCenter OrchestratorvCloud Automation

Center

vCenter Ops Mgmt. Suite

vCloud Director

Hyper-V

Virtual Machine Manager

Orchestrator

Service Manager

Operations Manager

App Controller

Protection vSphere Data Protection

Data Protection ManagerSystem Center 2012

SP1vCloud Suite

& vCenter

Private Cloud TechnologiesVMware

Key Focus Areas

Granular App & Service Deployment

Deeper Insight & Remediation Guidance

Protection for Key Apps & Workloads

Heterogeneous Management

Costs

Hybrid Infrastructure

Key Focus Areas

Granular App & Service Deployment

Deeper Insight & Remediation Guidance

Protection for Key Apps & Workloads

Heterogeneous Management

Costs

Hybrid Infrastructure

Demo

Service ManagerIT Service Management – Service Manager provides Incident, Problem, Change & Release management. Service & Request Offerings, along with SLA Management are also in the boxITaaS – Rich self-service portal based on SharePoint providing role-based access to the service catalog.

Integration – Connectors simplify and streamline integration between Service Manager and other System Center components.Business Intelligence – Powerful data warehouse for rich, integrated reporting.

Cloud Service Process PackLeverage Investments – in VMM, Operations Manager, Service Manager & Orchestrator to deliver Infrastructure as a Service.Free Download – providing Service Manager Request & Service Offerings and Orchestrator Runbooks to accelerate deployment of IaaS capabilitiesService Requests – Tenant Registration, Tenant Update Registration, Cloud Resources Subscription, Cloud Resources Update Subscription, New Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Update, Tenant Registration Cancellation, Cloud Resources Subscription Cancellation

OrchestratorCustom Automation – build, test, debug, deploy, and manage automation in your environment.Integration – integrates with System Center, other Microsoft products, and non-Microsoft products to enable interoperability across the data centerOrchestration – provides the tools for orchestration to combine software, hardware, and manual processes into a seamless systemExtensible – provides extensible integration to any system through the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit

ComparisonGranular App & Service Deployment

Capability Microsoft VMware

Request Private Cloud Resources w/ CMDB Yes No1

Role-Based Self-Service Yes Yes

Standardized Templates Yes Yes2

Template Granularity: Roles / Features Yes No

Template Granularity: Application Layer Yes Yes3

Service/Multi-Tier Templates Yes Yes3

Deployment Across Heterogeneous Clouds Yes Yes4

1. vCloud Automation Center allows for the requesting of private cloud resources but lacks a true CMDB capability in box.

2. Each VMware VM template will have it’s own VMDK, even if the template varies only slightly in it’s configuration options.

3. No alternatives to Server Application Virtualization (App-V) thus relies on regular installation methods or inflexible scripts. vFabric AD for Provisioning included with vCloud Suite, not release management ~$9,375 for 25 VMs.

4. vCloud Automation Center allows deployment onto non-VMware infrastructure at a cost of $400 per managed machine + S&Showever once deployed, it could not be managed from vCloud Director along with other VMware-based VMs.

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-automation-center/features.html, http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/management/vmw-vcloud-automation-center-faq.pdf

Key Focus Areas

Granular App & Service Deployment

Deeper Insight & Remediation Guidance

Protection for Key Apps & Workloads

Heterogeneous Management

Costs

Hybrid Infrastructure

Demo

Operations Manager | Network ViewsNetwork Summary

Dashboard – provides a view of important data for the nodes and interfaces of the networkNodes – A node can be any device connected to a network. Nodes can be switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, or any other networked device

Operations Manager | Network ViewsNetwork Vicinity View – to view a

diagram of a node and all nodes and agent computers that are connected to that nodeVM-to-Network Relationship – understand the relationships between virtual machines, hosts and the networks they are connected to

Detailed Knowledge – Operations Manager provides granular information about the specific network infrastructure nodes

Client-sideEnd user experiences related to page load times, server and network latency, and client-side scripting exceptions

Server-sideMonitoring the actual code that is executed and delivered

by the application

SyntheticPre-recorded testing paths through the application that highlight availability, response times, and unexpected responses

Use the same tools to monitor with visibility across infrastructure and applications

Infrastructure monitoring

Operations Manager | App Monitoring

IT Pro & Developers

Application performance monitoring pinpoints exactly where the issue is, reducing the mean time to resolution

Server-side monitoring shows the application is functioning

“My application is running slowly!”

“The code passed all testing.”

“The network looks good.”

“The servers are running fine.”

Client-side, however, shows there is a problem..

Global Service Monitor

Operations Manager

Web Test

Production Application

Microsoft Visual

Studio 2012

Workitem +Results

Results

Results

Call Web App

Web Test + Schedule

On-premises

Global Service Monitor

!

Visual Studio Integration

Virtual Machin

e Manage

r

Library

Hyper-V Hosts

Test & Lab Manager

Team Foundation

Server

System Center AdvisorCloud Service – assess your server configurations and proactively avoid problemsResolve Issues – accessing current and historical configuration dataSpecific Guidance – helps reduce downtime by providing suggestions for improvement and notifying you of key updates specific to your configurationSupports – System Center 2012, SQL Server, Windows Server, SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and Lync.

Comparison

1. Would require purchases outside of the vCloud Suite including vFabric Hyperic, vCenter Operations Management Suite Enterprise Edition

2. Remediation limited to VMware best practices thus lacking in application-specific remediation guidance3. Lab Manager deprecated, with customers expected to upgrade to vCloud Director, which has no connections with Development

IDE.

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-suite/compare.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-automation-center/overview.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-automation-center/buy.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/application-platform/vfabric-hyperic/buy.html, https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/categories/21/view_all, http://www.vmware.com/products/labmanager/overview.html

Deeper Insight & Remediation GuidanceCapability Microsoft VMware

Non-Virtualized Infrastructure Monitoring Yes Yes1

Deep Application Insight & Remediation Guidance Yes Yes2

Outside-In Monitoring & Configuration Guidance Yes No

Integration with Development Tools Yes No3

Key Focus Areas

Granular App & Service Deployment

Deeper Insight & Remediation Guidance

Protection for Key Apps & Workloads

Heterogeneous Management

Costs

Hybrid Infrastructure

Data protection manager disaster recovery (with offsite replication and tape)

Tape-based backup

Disk-based recovery

Up to every 15 minutes

Windows Azure Backup

Active DirectoryHyper-VFile Services

Windows Client

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Data Protection Manager

Data Protection Manager

Express FullBackupsAfter initial replica, DPM uses block-level change tracking and applies these changes blocks onto initial replica- Cluster Aware –

Integrates with CSV

- Parallel Backups- 900%

Performance Improvement

Optimized PerformanceDPM scales to protect up to 800 VMs per DPM Server, across standalone hosts and clusters- Supports Page File

Exclusion- Supports Item-Level

Restore- Supports SMB

Shares

Live Migration AwareDPM delivers uninterrupted protection capabilities, integrating with VMM to track VM locations- Ensures VMs are

protected as they are migrated in and out, and within clusters

Backup to CloudCustomers can utilize DPM and Windows Azure to provide offsite, long-term storage for data- Simple setup

process- Integrated into DPM

wizards for ease of management

- Up to 120 Recovery Points

Data Protection Manager | VMs

Comparison

1. VMware Data Protection (Advanced) offers protection for VMs & SQL/Exchange only and offers no protection of physical machines

2. VMware Data Protection is not extensible by 3rd parties3. VMware Data Protection is capped at 10 appliances per vCenter with a maximum storage of 2TB/100 VMs per appliance.4. VMware Data Protection offers no protection to tape media. Disk only

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Introduction-to-Data-Protection.pdf, http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vmware-data-protection-administration-guide-51.pdf

Protection of Key Applications & WorkloadsCapability Microsoft VMware

Granular Workload Protection Yes Yes1

Physical & Virtual Protection Yes No1

3rd Party Integration Yes No2

Centralized Role-Based Management Yes Yes3

Tape Backup Yes No4

Integrated Disaster Recovery Yes Yes

Key Focus Areas

Granular App & Service Deployment

Deeper Insight & Remediation Guidance

Protection for Key Apps & Workloads

Heterogeneous Management

Costs

Hybrid Infrastructure

Demo

Heterogeneous Management

Fabric

Hypervisor

OS

Management

Application Frameworks

Comparison

1. vCloud Automation Center focuses on provisioning VMs to alternative hypervisors, whilst the Multi-Hypervisor Manager plug-in for vCenter offers only very basic capabilities. vCAC support limited to 2008 R2/SP1 & VMM 2012

2. vCenter Orchestrator has a limited number of 3rd party plug-ins.3. vCenter Operations Management Suite requires the purchase of 3rd Party adaptors to integrate.

VMware Information: http://www.vmware.com/support/mhm/doc/vcenter-multi-hypervisor-manager-10-release-notes.html, http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/vcenter-mhm,

Heterogeneous ManagementCapability Microsoft VMware

Multi-Hypervisor Management Yes Limited1

Heterogeneous Automation & Integration Yes Limited2

Heterogeneous Monitoring & Extensibility Yes Limited3

Key Focus Areas

Granular App & Service Deployment

Deeper Insight & Remediation Guidance

Protection for Key Apps & Workloads

Heterogeneous Management

Costs

Hybrid Infrastructure

Hybrid Infrastructure | Microsoft

Microsoft

Private Cloud

Microsoft

Private Cloud

System Center

2012 SP1

Windows Azure & Service

Providers

IDENTITY | MANAGEMENT | VIRTUALIZATION | DEVELOPMENT

Hybrid Infrastructure | VMware

vCloud(w/

Director)

vCloud(w/

Director)

vCloud Connecto

r 2.0

Amazon, Hyper-V,

Xen

vCloud Automation Center

VMware vCloud Service, vCloud

Providers

vCloud Connecto

r 2.0

Key Focus Areas

Granular App & Service Deployment

Deeper Insight & Remediation Guidance

Protection for Key Apps & Workloads

Heterogeneous Management

Costs

Hybrid Infrastructure

500 VM Private Cloud

15:1VM to Host Ratio

34 Hosts2 CPU w/ 16 Cores

Windows Server licensing additional

Comprehensive Management

34 licenses of Windows Server

Datacenter

500 VM Private Cloud | Microsoft

68 CPUsHyper-V Server

$0

34 Licenses (64 CPU)

System Center 2012

$122,638*

Total Cost$122,638

Provides complete infrastructure management including:Application Performance Management, Self-Service, Backup & Application

Protection,IT Service Management & Service Catalog, Orchestration and much more…

* System Center Pricing: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/1/11128EC7-2BE7-480C-9D46-4ECECA9E481A/System%20Center%202012%20Licensing%20Datasheet.pdf

500 VM Private Cloud | VMware

68 CPUsvCloud Suite Ent

$781,660*

vCenter Server$4,995*

Total Cost$786,655 + S&S

Costs, without S&S, $786,655 yet lacks true ITIL-based service management, granular workload protection, comprehensive in-

guest management,DevOps capabilities and 3rd Party integration…

* VMware Pricing: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-suite/pricing.html, http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/buy.html

Over 6x more expensive than the Microsoft solution

Summary

More Granular App & Service Deployment Features Deeper 360o Insight & Remediation GuidanceMore Granular Protection for Key Apps & WorkloadsMore Comprehensive Heterogeneous Management

Significant Savings on Cost

Simplified, Unified Hybrid Infrastructure Management

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