Virtualization Platform Functions and Specifications Comparison

Comparison Hyper-V Citrix KVM 3.1 VMware FusionSphere

Item 2012 R2 6.0 5.5 5.0
Logical 320 160 160 320 320
Performance
processors
Physical 4 TB 1 TB 2 TB 4 TB 4 TB
Memory
Virtual CPUs 64 16 64 64 64
Per VM
Memory Per VM 1 TB 128 GB 1 TB 1 TB 1 TB
Active VMs per 40,000 20,000 40,000 30,000 80,000
Site
Maximum Nodes 64 16 64 32 128
HA Y Y Y Y Y
FT NO NO NO Y Y
QOS Y Y Y Y Y
Functions

Thin Y Y Y Y Y
Provisioning
Storage Live Y NO Y Y Y
Migration
Storage DRS NO NO NO Y Y
Intellicache NO Y NO Y Y
vSwitch Y Y Y Y Y
SR-IOV Y NO NO Y Y
vSphere Logical Architecture
 FusionSphere and vSphere Logical Architecture Comparison

ManageOne
ManageOne
Operation Center or
Service Center FusionSphere SOI

FusionManager

UltraVR/HyperDP

UVP+VRM FusionNetwork

FusionStorage

• This figure only shows the overall • The two solutions have similar
architecture of both solutions but does architectures, but their function
not provide all components. distributions are not the same.
 VMWare’s Main Components and Their Huawei Counterparts (1/3)
Original
New Component
Component Function Huawei Component
Name
Name

ESXi Unchanged Server virtualization software UVP

Operating and management platform for server

vSphere Unchanged FusionCompute
virtualization
Network virtualization and software-defined
NSX Unchanged FusionNetwork
networking component
Cloud infrastructure

Virtual SAN Unchanged Server SAN solution FusionStorage

vCenter Site
Recovery Unchanged Disaster recovery (DR) management software UltraVR
Management
vSphere Data
Protection Unchanged Backup management software HyperDP
Advanced
vSphere® with vSphere+intelligent operation and maintenance
Operations Unchanged (O&M)+performance monitoring+capacity FusionCompute+SOI
Management™ management
FusionSphere Platinum
vCloud Suite Unchanged VMware vSphere private cloud management suite
Edition

VMware VSAN Unchanged Storage virtualization FusionStorage

 VMWare’s Main Components and Their Huawei Counterparts (2/3)
Original New Component
Function Huawei Component
Component Name Name
vCenter Server Unchanged Server virtualization management component VRM
vCloud Director Unchanged Virtual data center (VDC) management component FusionManager
IT Business
Provides insight into and control over IT quality and costs
Management vRealize Business -
for CIOs.
Suite

vCenter Log vRealize™ Log Real-time log management tool for the VMware
FusionManager
Insight Insight™ environment
Cloud management

vRealize Operations component for monitoring the OSs,

vRealize™ FusionManager
vCenter Hyperic middleware, and applications on physical servers, VMs,
Hyperic® HypericHQ
and cloud environments
vCenter vRealize
Process orchestration and automation tool FusionManager
Orchestrator Orchestrator
vCloud
vRealize Tool for self-service, service catalog, visual application ManageOne Service
Automation
Automation design, and automatic deployment Center
Center
vCenter vRealize Configuration manager for OS patching, automatic
Configuration Configuration installation, configuration compliance evaluation, and -
Manager Manager system hardening
vCenter vRealize
Infrastructure Infrastructure Provides a centralized application view. FusionManager
Navigator Navigator
 VMWare’s Main Components and Their Huawei Counterparts (3/3)

Original
New Component Huawei
Component Function
Name Component
Name

vCloud Hybrid
vCloud® Air™ VMware IaaS hybrid cloud service platform Huawei cloud service
Service

vCenter
Unchanged Physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) tool Rainbow hConverter
Converter
Others

EVO: RAIL™ (a hyper- FusionCube

converged Hyper-converged infrastructure appliance simplifying (However, EVO:RAIL
N/A
infrastructure device deployment, configuration, and management supports third-party
appliance) hardware).

vRealize™ Suite (a
N/A hybrid cloud Hybrid cloud management platform FusionManager
management platform)
vRealize™ Operations
Predicative analysis tool providing performance FusionSphere System
Insight™ (an intelligent
N/A management, capacity optimization, and real-time log Operations Insight
operation software
analysis (SOI)
platform)
FusionSphere and vSphere Suites Comparsion

Original
New Component
Component Function Huawei Component
Name
Name
VMware vSphere private cloud
vCloud Suite Unchanged FusionSphere Platinum Edition
management suite

IT O&M and management tool suite

integrating performance management,
capacity management and optimization,
VMware vCenter
vRealize and policy-based automation. This tool FusionSphere Advanced or
Operations
Operations suite consisting of vRealize Operations Platinum Edition
Management Suite
Manager, vRealize Configuration Manager,
vRealize Hyperic, and vRealize
Infrastructure Navigator components.

Category Feature
Virtualization Virtual computing resources,
Virtual storage resources,
Virtual network resources,
VM reliability
Security management
Virtual anti-virus
Virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN)
Virtual data VM management &Virtual
center (VDC) private cloud management
Infrastructure operation and
maintenance (O&M)
Measurement
Automatic application instance
deployment
Application monitoring
Hypervisor compatibility
Hardware management
Cloud Cloud infrastructure service API
infrastructure
Multi data center management
service
Load balancing service
Disaster Data backup
recovery
Remote DR based on array
(DR) and
replication
backup
Remote DR base on the host
replication
Performance System operation insight
optimization
FusionSphere Editions
Product Foundation Standard Advanced Platinum /
Edition Edition Edition Operation This edition allows users free
FusionCompute access to FusionSphere for
★ ★ ★ ★ Foundation 6 CPUs with no time limit.
Edition This edition includes
FusionCompute and
★ ★ ★ ★
FusionManager.
★ ★ ★ ★
★ ★ ★ Intended for the virtualization
market. The Standard
★ ★
Edition provides mature
FusionManager Standard virtualization functions and
★ ★ ★
Edition basic backup and live
migration functions.
★ ★ ★
FusionManager is not
★ ★ ★ included in this edition.
★ ★ ★ Intended for the private
cloud market. The Advanced
★ ★ ★ Edition provides the backup
function but does not provide
★ ★ ★ Advanced
the cloud infrastructure
Edition
★ ★ ★ service functions that are
required by the public cloud.
★
FusionManager is included
★ in this edition.
★ ★ ★
HyperDP
★ ★ ★ Intended for the hybrid cloud
UltraVR market. This edition provides
☆ ☆ ★ Platinum
all functions except the
Edition
☆ ☆ ★ metering function required
by cloud operating.
FusionSphere
SOI ★
Notes：★ Default ☆Optional