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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
• Patch Compliance - Get a data center wide actionable patch compliance dashboard in vCenter that enables
compliance to baselines through automated scanning and patching. Patching is available for hosts, virtual
appliances, virtual hardware, and VMware tools .
3
Possible through setup of WSUS and
integration with SCVMM or SCCM
No, limited views exist only in certain parts of
RHEV Manager. Requires purchase of Red
Hat Satellite, a separate component and
point of management at an additional cost
Virtual Machine Management
• Improved vSphere Web Client - Use a single web-based console to access vCenter Server and manage the entire
infrastructure, including hosts, virtual machines, resource pools, and more. Enable IT administrators and application
owners to manage the essential functions of vSphere from Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer with full support for
Mac OS X.
3
No, multiple clients required to administer
the environment, for example, Hyper-V
Manager, Failover Cluster Manager, SCVMM,
SCOM. Web based management possible w/
App Controller in conjunction with Silverlight,
but only supported for Windows
No, separate portals exist for users,
administrators, and reporting. RHEV Manager
provides limited capabilities and requires
setup and use of SPICE/VNC/RDP
integrations and plugins
• Remote devices - Install software in a virtual machine running on a server from the CD-ROM of a desktop without leaving
your desk
3
No No, VMs can only mount ISOs that have been
imported through a specific process requiring
users to setup an ISO storage domain and
manually import the ISOs through the Linux
CLI
• USB 3.0 support - ESXi features support for USB 3.0 devices in virtual machines with Linux guest operating systems.
USB 3.0 devices attached to the client computer running the vSphere Web Client can be connected to a virtual
machine and accessed in it.
3
No Linux support. Requires RemoteFX No, only supported for virtual desktops
• Access Virtual Machine Serial Ports Over the Network - Redirect virtual machine serial ports over a standard
network link in vSphere 6 natively
3
No, requires setup of named pipes mapped
to physical serial ports
No
• Physical to Virtual Machine Conversion - Manage multiple simultaneous conversions of virtual machines using
vCenter Converter. Convert running physical machines to VMs for a multitude of operating systems ranging from
Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2012 R2, and several Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu.
3
MVMC does not support P2V for any Linux
operating systems and missing support for
some legacy Windows operating systems
Based on virt-v2v support which has limited
operating system support, including lack of
support for Windows 2012/2012 R2 and
Windows 8/8.1
3. Operations Management
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
• Comprehensive Visibility – Central point of operational visibility through vCenter Server with integrated badges
and detailed metrics from vRealize Operations. View deep operational insights into the health, risk and eciency of
your infrastructure and applications with operational badges and sub-badges to quickly show current and future
risks to your environment.
3
Limited capabilities from a central
administration point in SCVMM. Requires
separate management and extensive
configuration and customization of SCOM
Very limited capabilities from central
administration point in RHEV Manager. RHEV
Reporting, a separate component based on
open source reporting tools, adds limited
historical reporting and dashboards
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