Cloud on Your Terms Part 7 of 30: Hyper-V for the VMware Professional

We’re no fools.  We know that if you’re using Virtualization in your business, you're very likely using or have considered using VMware.  And we also know that you may be considering Hyper-V for an additional (or alternative) virtualization platform.  At least I hope you are.  

That said, and if you’re just starting out learning Hyper-V, you may be confused about what terms or technologies equate from VMware into the world of Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2, and the System Center suite.  So, for your benefit, here is a quick list of VMware terms/technologies and their equivalent technology in the Microsoft Virtualization world.

Product Terminology

VMware	Microsoft
Web Access	Self Service Portal
VI Client	Hyper-V Manager
Consolidated Backup	System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
vCenter	System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)	Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)

Virtual Machine Terminology

VMware	Microsoft
VMware Tools	Integration Component
Service Console	Parent Partition
VM SCSI	VM IDE Boot
Hot Add Disks, Storage, Memory	Hot Add Disks, Storage, Memory
Distributed Power Management	Core Parking & Dynamic Optimization
Standard/Distributed Switch	Virtual Switch
Templates	Templates
Converter	SCVMM P2V / V2V
Update Manager	Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST)

Storage Terminology

VMware	Microsoft
VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)	VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)
Raw Device Mapping	Pass-Through Disk
Storage vMotion	Quick Storage Migration
Thin Provisioning	Dynamic Disk
Volume/Extent Grow	Expand Disk / Volume

High-Availability Terminology

VMware	Microsoft
VMware HA (High-Availability)	Failover Clustering
vMotion	Live Migration
Primary Node	Coordinator Node
VM Affinity	VM Affinity
VMFS	Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

Incidentally, this list was “borrowed” from the recorded content that is available on the Microsoft Virtual Academy; specifically the excellent recordings of Corey Hynes and Symon Perriman’s “Microsoft Virtualization for IT Professionals” training sessions (and even more specifically, Module 2).  I highly recommend this training, and any other content that looks useful to you.  It’s free, and very well done.

And if you have missed any of the series posts, check out my summary post for links to all of the articles available so far at https://aka.ms/cloudseries.