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v. Sphere - Enterprise Plus - with OM(6. 0): $4, 245/socket + S&S 1 Y: $891 (B) or $1061 (Prod) v. Sphere 6. 0 with Operations Management is licensed 'per physical CPU' (socket, not core), without restrictions on the amount of physical cores or virtual RAM configured. There also no license restrictions on the number of virtual machines Regardless of Edition there is no any limit on VM number per host Hyper. V 2012 R 2 – Data. Center Datacenter: $6, 1554 for (up to) 2 sockets (28% increase) A single Datacenter license covers now (up to) 2 physical CPUs. Support for Hyper-V is part of the support for Windows operating system (not included in OS license). All prices are excluding support / software assurance.

General features VMWARE VSPHERE® WITH OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT™ 6 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R 2 HYPER-V & SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R 2 Guest Operating Systems Support - VMware v. Sphere 6 provides the ✓ most extensive guest operating system support, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, MAC OS X and more. ( 85 OSs) Only 15 are fully supported Linux and Unix Operating System Support – VMware v. Sphere 6 provides industry best support for virtualizing Linux operating systems No Unix Support, limited Linux support • v. Shield Endpoint – Hypervisor layer anti-virus offload lets administrators manage anti-virus and anti-malware policies. v. Sphere Data Protection - Enable quick, simple and complete data protection and deduplication for virtual machines ( now includes some features which were available in previous advanced edition) ✓ No Limited, DPM lacks ability to deduplicate data. Limited Linux guest OS support and no capabilities for file level restore with Linux guests

Hot Add virtual devices without downtime Memory – Add virtual memory. VMWARE VSPHERE® WITH OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT™ 6 ✓ MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R 2 HYPER-V & SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R 2 Requires explicit guest operating support for Dynamic Memory. Note that you cannot enable dynamic memory, increase minimum RAM or decrease maximum RAM while online Hot-add virtual disks ✓ Only possible for SCSI attached drives Hot-extend virtual disks ✓ No ability to hot extend boot volumes for Gen 1 VMs CPU and NIC – Add or remove virtual processors and virtual networking devices ✓ No

VM Management Long Distance v. Motion - Ability to use v. Motion to move a running virtual machine when the source and destination ESXi hosts are located in different geographic regions. VMWARE VSPHERE® WITH OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT™ 6 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R 2 HYPERV & SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R 2 Undocumented ✓ Improved v. Sphere Web Client - Use a single web-based console to access v. Center Server and manage the entire infrastructure, including hosts, virtual machines, resource pools, and more. ✓ 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 Virtual Volumes™ (VVOLs) ✓ Nothing Comparable Multi-Processor Fault Tolerance (FT) - Provide zero downtime, zero data loss continuous availability against physical server failures through a seamless stateful failover. ✓ No

VMware solution Microsoft solution 2 -year hardware, software and support costs 2, 300, 768$ 2, 278, 533$ 2 -year operating expensis 3, 503$ 41, 044$ 2 -year TCO 2, 304, 271$ 2, 319, 577$ http: //www. vmware. com/files/pdf/principled_technologies_vmware_v s_microsoft_tco. pdf

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