How Hyper-V 2016 compares to vSphere 6.5

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Tuesday, 08 August 2017 16:42

How Hyper-V 2016 compares to vSphere 6.5

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Scaling and maximums

System		Resource	Microsoft Hyper-V 2016	VMware vSphere 6.5
System		Resource	Microsoft Hyper-V 2016	Free Hypervisor	Essential Plus	Enterprise Plus
Host		Logical Processors	512	576	576	576
		Physical Memory	24 TB	4 TB?	4 TB?	12 TB
		Virtual CPUs per Host	2048	4096	4096	4096
		VM per Host	1024	1024	1024	1024
		Nested Hypervisor	Yes (only some OSes)	Yes	Yes	Yes
VM		Virtual CPUs per VM	240 for Generation2 64 for Generation1	8	128?	128
		Memory per VM	12 TB for Generation2 1 TB for Generation1	6128 GB	6128 GB	6128 GB
		Maximum Virtual Disk	64 TB for VHDX format 2040 GB for VHD format	62 TB	62 TB	62 TB
		Number of disks	256 (SCSI)	60 (SCSI)	60 (SCSI)	60 (SCSI)
Cluster		Maximum Nodes	64	N/A	64	64
Cluster		Maximum VMs	8000	N/A	8000	8000

Features

Features	Microsoft Hyper-V 2016	VMware vSphere 6.5
Features	Microsoft Hyper-V 2016	Free Hypervisor	Essential Plus	Enterprise Plus
VM host live migration	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
VM storage live migration	Yes	No	No	Yes
Storage/Network QoS	Yes	No (just disk shares)	No (just disk shares at host level)	Yes
Hardware passthrough	Discrete Device Assignment	PCI VMDirectPath USB redirection	PCI VMDirectPath USB redirection	PCI VMDirectPath USB redirection
Hot-Add	Disks/vNIC/RAM	Disks/vNIC/USB	Disks/vNIC/USB	Disks/vNIC/USB/ CPU/RAM
Hot-Remove	Disks/vNIC/RAM	Disks/vNIC/USB	Disks/vNIC/USB	Disks/vNIC/USB/CPU
Disk resize	Hot-grow and shrink	Hot-grow	Hot-grow	Hot-grow
VM encryption	Yes	No	No?	Yes

Source: http://vinfrastructure.it/2016/11/microsoft-hyper-v-2016-vs-vmware-vsphere-6-5/

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