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VMware vSphere 6 with Operations Management
Key Features and Benefits Comparison
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS VMWARE VSPHERE®
WITH OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT™ 6
MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER
2012 R2 HYPER-V & SYSTEM CENTER
2012 R2
RED HAT ENTERPRISE
VIRTUALIZATION 3.5
Enhanced virtual machine support
• Software Support for 3D Graphics - ESXi supports non-hardware accelerated 3D graphics to run Windows Aero
and Basic 3D applications in virtual machines
3
Requires use of RemoteFX No
• Hardware Support for 3D Graphics - vGPU Graphic Ooad provides support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics
inside a virtual machine. Ooad can be configured so that hardware-acceleration will continue after a vMotion
operation is requested if available.
3
Requires use of RemoteFX No
• UEFI virtual BIOS - Virtual machines running on ESXi 6 can boot from and use the Unified Extended Firmware
Interface (UEFI)
3
Only with Generation 2 Virtual Machines No
• Linux Guest Graphic Acceleration - VMware has developed and provided a guest driver that accelerates the entire
Graphics Stack for modern distributions, with VMware contributing 100 percent of the code back to open-source
community
3
No No
New Configuration Maximums in vSphere 6 Provide Support for the Largest Virtual Machine Workloads
• Up to 480 Logical processors per Host
3
No (320) No (160)
• Up to 12 TB of RAM per Host
3
No (4 TB) No (4 TB)
• Up to 1,000 Virtual Machines per Host
3
Yes (1,024) Undocumented
• Up to 64 Hosts in a Cluster
3
Yes (64) Yes(200)
• Up to 8,000 Virtual Machines in a Cluster
3
Yes (8,000) Undocumented
• Up to 128 Processors per Virtual Machine
3
No (64) Yes (160)
• Up to 4 TB of RAM per Virtual Machine
3
No (1 TB) Yes (4 TB)
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