ZStack vs.

VMware
ZStack General Introduction
Cloud Service Basic Info.
ECS OSS SLB … • Alibaba Cloud ZStack is a light-weight Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
hybrid cloud solution which can be easily deployed to manage
hardware in data centers, servers on the edge, and hybrid cloud
ZStack Cloud Platform
environments across on-premises and Alibaba Cloud resources.
• Providing computing virtualization, network virtualization and
Cloud Management Platform - Unified Scheduling Management
distributed storage virtualization in one product (HCI solution).
Server Storage • Providing cloud management capabilities including multi-tenant
Network Virtualization
Virtualization Virtualization management, multi-zone management, billing management, disaster
recovery etc.
IT Infra. • Managing as less as 3 nodes (HCI solution), and as many as 10,000+
nodes and various physical assets (almost all the main stream brands
Server Switch Storage of servers, network switches, storage systems).
• Supporting various Alibaba Cloud services (ECS, VPC, SLB, VPN, IPV6,
OSS).
• An open hybrid cloud solution which can be easily downloaded online
Strength & Concerns: and installed. Offering 1600+ RESTful APIs for third party integration

• Easy and quick start a cloud platform with proven stability. • A fresh new cloud platform solution.
• Highly scalable form 1 server to 10,000+ servers. • Limited international references.
• Flexible storage solution covers local storage, NAS/SAN, to Ceph storage.
• Seamless takeover VMware vCenter.
• Cloud-native and no extra cost required to support cloud

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VMware vSphere General Introduction
Basic Info.

• Founded in 1998, VMware is credited with commercializing compute

virtualization technologies with their popular vSphere product,
Management enabling multiple virtual applications to run concurrently on a single
physical host. This increased utilization of IT resources, which
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
dramatically improved the economics of enterprise datacenter
infrastructure.
• vSphere is a virtualization platform. The two core components of
vSphere are VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server®.
• ESXi is the hypervisor on which you create and run virtual
machines. vCenter Server is a service that acts as a central
administrator for ESXi hosts that are connected on a network.
With vCenter Server, you can pool and manage the resources of
multiple hosts. vCenter Server allows you to monitor and manage your
physical and virtual infrastructure.
Strength & Concerns:

• Rich virtualization technical depth since 98’.
• Product driven, low learning cost and sales/promotion cost.
• Comprehensive SDDC (software defined data center) solution suite.
• Wide industry ecosystem, partnership in security, backup, DR and
container technologies.
• Long product delivery, difficult to upgrade.
• Not opensource, proprietary
• Not willing to adapt to customer requirement.
• High total cost of ownership.

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ZStack vs VMware vSphere Capability compare

Key Feature ZStack Cloud VMware vSphere

Standalone Stack Y Y
Storage Type Comprehensive compatibility for
storage, support NFS, Ceph, iSCSI, FC, NFS, iSCSI, FC, vSAN, Local
local, aliyunEBS, aliyunNAS
Scalability (node #/per cluster) 10,000+ 64
ARM Architecture Y N

Cloud Platform Management Native Support Need Extra vCenter License

Hot Migration Native Support Need vCenter to Support
Multi-tenant, Billing, Cloud Resource Price
Native Support Need Extra vRealize License
Rule Config.
Hardware Reusing Y Y
Disaster Recovery Capability Y Y
Core Code Open Source Y N

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Compute Virtualization

ZStack Cloud - VMware vSphere -

Key Feature
KVM ESXi
VM Performance Near-native speed Slower

Cost Lower High

Mature and stable Mature and stable

hypervisor that can hypervisor that can
Maturity
support enterprise support enterprise
workloads workloads

Maximum of 255 Maximum of 256 vCPU

VM Specs. Limit vCPU and 6TB of RAM and 6TB of RAM per
In terms of compute virtualization, ZStack per VM VM in 7.0GA

Cloud Platform is an affordable alternative Enterprise Level

Y Y
solution than VMware vSphere without Support
significate technical disadvantages. Vendor Lock-in N Y

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Cloud Platform

In order to evolve into a cloud platform, at least includes vSphere A native cloud platform compasses all in one. Including compute,
+ vCenter + vSAN + NSX + vRealize Operations. storage, network, basic security, platform O&M etc..
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 ZStack vs. VMware Product Mapping

Feature ZStack Component VMware Component

Virtualized Computing ZStack Enterprise Compute vSphere + vCenter

Virtualized Storage ZStack Ceph vSAN

Virtualized Network ZStack Enterprise Networking NSX Data Center

Cloud Management ZStack CMP, O&M vCloud Suite/vRealize

DR ZStack DR Site Recovery Manager

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VMware vCenter Integration & Management
ZStack cloud to integrate w/ VMware vCenter via OpenAPI, supported release: 5.5, 6.0, 6.7 & 7.0

Mgmt.
network

• ZStack mgmt. node listen for events from vCenter.

• ZStack operate VMware resource via vCenter command.
• ZStack capable of managing both ZStack cluster and VMware ESXi cluster concurrently.

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VMware to ZStack VM Migration

Migration Server

First integrate,
Then migrate

• ZStack cloud to integrate with VMware vCenter

• 1-click batch VM to VM migration
• 1 dedicated ‘migration server’
• Migration task manual setup, auto. execution
• Support setup of dedicated ‘migration network’, ‘network QoS’
• GUI for real-time migration status view and management
• VMware VM migration support: 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, 7.0
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Advantages (ZStack vs. VMware vCenter + vSphere)

Single Cluster Nodes Sizing Licensing Cost per Processor

Max. 10,000 Annual

Subscription
Service
Annual
Subscription
vCenter Service
Server
Foundation
VM Migration
License
(Optional)
vSphere
Enterprise ZStack
Max. 64
Plus Enterprise

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 ZStack Value Proposition

Leverage Retain Built-in

Legacy Previous VM Auto. Alibaba
Resource VMware Migration Cloud
x86 Server Investment Integration

- Hardware vendor - Manage vSphere via - Auto. migration tool - On-prem ZStack Cloud
agnostic vCenter - Dedicated migration - Single console for
- Reuse old idle server - vSphere + ZStack hybrid server, network, QoS multiple Alibaba public
mgmt. measures cloud operation

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