NL VMUG UserCon – March 19 2015

VMware <> Microsoft

Let's look beyond the war on checkbox compliancy.

Introductie

Kenneth van Surksum• Sr Consultant @ Insight24

• Speaker, trainer & chief editor virtualization.info & cloudcomputing.info

• Microsoft MVP for 4 yrs, vExpert for 3 yrs

• SCCM, SCOM, SCSM, Infrastructure

Marnix Wolf• Sr consultant @ Insight24

• Speaker, blogger & owner of Thoughtson OpsMgr

• Microsoft SCCDM MVP for 6 yrs

• SCOM, SCCM, Orchestrator, Intelligent Notification Systems

Insight24

Technologie is een middel, geen doel

3x M (Mensen, Methoden, Middelen) & Organisatie

Gericht op informatievoorziening

Agenda

• Spit Battle?• Single Pain-of-Glass• Beyond the marketing hype• Best of both worlds• Field experience

Spit Battle?

Spit Battle?

• Actief <> Passief• Emoties <> Ervaringen• Checkbox <> Killer Feature• Better together <> Vendor Lock-in

Microsoft en VMware, Partners of Concurrenten?

Microsoft en VMware, Partners of Concurrenten?

Partners

• VMware Workstation• VMware GSX• VMware View• ThinApp/App

Volumes(CloudVolumes)

Concurrenten

• ESXi/Hyper-V• vRealize/System Center• Azure/vCloud Air?• Hyper-V Network

Virtualization/NSX• Scale-out File Server

(SOFS)/vSAN

Single Pain-of-Glass

VMM & VMware

• Het kan, maar…• vCenter is een harde requirement• Geen support voor vCenter 5.5 & 6.0• Eenvoudige beheertaken worden ‘iets’ uitdagender• Sommige beheertaken gaan niet• VMM ≠ Single pane-of-glass• VMM = Single pain-of-glass

Gemiste kansen…

• VMM is goede tooling• Hamer ≠ Zaag• Hype <> realiteit

Beyond the marketing hype

Beheren, wat is dat eigenlijk?

• Fault Management• Configuration Management• Accounting• Performance Management• Security

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCAPS

De SuitesMicrosoft System Center VMware vRealize

Automation OrchestratorService Management Automation (SMA)

vRealize Orchestrator

Service Management Service Manager vRealize Automation

Configuration Management Configuration Manager vRealize Configuration Manager

Protection Data Protection Manager vRealize Data Protection

Monitoring Operations ManagerOperational Insights

vRealize Operations ManagervRealize Log Insight

Self-Service Windows Azure Pack (IaaS)System Center Service Manager

vRealize Automation CentervRealize Orchestrator

VM Management Virtual Machine Manager vCenter Server

Beyond the hype

• Heterogeen is default• Onbegrensd• 1 + 1 = 2,5?• De weg er naar toe

Best of both worlds

VMware & Microsoft? Het kan!

• VMware monitoring• Workflow automatisering• Managing mixed hyper-visors• Rapid Server Deployment• Service Management

VMware Monitoring - Veeam

• vCenter ≠ Monitoring Solution• Agentless monitoring• Proxy: vCenter <> SCOM• 100% vCenter/VMware API’s• In Depth

Orchestrator

Hyper-V beheren met VMware Tooling

• Multi Hypervisor Manager• Versie 1.1.2 (December 2014)

• Support voor:• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012• Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2012• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2• Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 R2• Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008

• vRealize Operations Manager• Support voor SCOM

Focus van VMware en Microsoft vandaag

Microsoft

• Cloud• Mobile

VMware• Cloud• Mobile (Airwatch)• Virtualization• Management

• vRealize• Cloudvolumes/ThinApp• Immidio Flex+

• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI)/Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

• OpenStack• NSX• vSAN

VMware vCloud Air versus Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure vCloud Air

Create Virtual Machines (IaaS) Create Virtual Machines (IaaS)

Not designed to provide resiliency (Application should provide resiliency), no Live Migration between hosts

Provides resliliency (Robust hardware), vMotion available

Designed for Platform as a Service Designed to host Enterprise, Legacy Applications

Runs on top of Hyper-V (Version unknown), doesn't use System Center

Runs on top of ESXi - uses vCloud Director

Pay per use model Pay for a set of resources (CPU, Memory, Storage)

Limited set of supported guest OS Supports all the ESXi guest OS'es

New features every month Features on par with the platform

VMware vCloud Air versus Microsoft Azure

Switchen tussen VMware en Microsoft

VMware -> Microsoft• Microsoft Virtual Machine

Converter (3.0)• Virtual Machine Converter

plug-in for vSphere Client• Microsoft Migration

Accelerator (InMageacquisition)

• 3rd party (5nine V2V Easy Converter, ..)

Microsoft -> VMware

• vCenter Converter Standalone (5.5)

Switchen tussen VMware en Microsoft

• NetApp Project Shift• Allows switching between virtualization platforms without

migrating data• http://cloudcomputing.info/en/news/2013/06/netapp-announces-tech-preview-of-

project-shift-allowing-switching-between-virtualization-platforms-without-migrating-data.html

Field Experiences

Field Experiences

• Het virtualisatie platform is het beste te managen met management software van dezelfde leverancier

• Gebruik Certified Solutions (Reference Architectures) welke door Storage, Compute en Network vendor worden ondersteund

• Er zijn 3rd party oplossingen die zowel VMware als Microsoft virtualisatie platformen kunnen beheren. Solarwinds/OpenStack/Hotlink/..

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More informationWindows Management User Group

• http://www.wmug.nl

Marnix Wolf’s blog• http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/

Kenneth van Surksum blogs• http://www.virtualization.info | http://www.cloudcomputing.info

Insight24• http://www.insight24.nl