Hyper-V and VMware Technology and Terminology Comparison
In many cases we compare Hyper-V and VMware technologies. But do we always know that we compare apples with apples ?
The following table helps to map Microsoft Hyper-V technologies and terminologies to VMware terminologies.
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VMware |
Parent Partition |
Service Console |
VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) |
VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) |
Failover Clustering |
VMware HA (High Availability) |
Live Migration |
vMotion |
CSV (Clustered Shared Volumes) |
VMFS |
Coordinator Node |
Primary Node |
VM Affinity |
VM Affinity |
Pass-Through Disks |
Raw Device Mapping |
Core Parking |
Distributed Power Management |
Hyper-V Manager |
VI Client |
Windows Server Backup (WSB) |
Consolidated Backup |
Dynamic Disk |
Thin Provisioning |
Expand Disk/Volume |
Volume/Extent Grow |
VM IDE boot |
VM SCSI |
Hot Add Disks |
Hot Add Disks |
Integration Components |
VMware Tools |
Virtual Switch |
Standard/Distributed Switch |
System Center Virtual Machine Manager |
vCenter |
Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Dynamic Optimization (SCVMM 2012) |
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) |
Self Service Portal |
Web Access |
Quick Storage Migration |
Storage vMotion |
Templates |
Templates |
Clones |
Full Clones |
P2V / V2V |
Converter |
Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VSMT) |
Update Manager |
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Now we have a translator for VMWare. ThanksAnonymous
April 13, 2012
Good Read!Anonymous
May 21, 2013
Still can be explained in detail.Anonymous
November 20, 2013
Thanks much appreciated!Anonymous
February 19, 2014
Thanks its helpful.Anonymous
May 29, 2014
gr8 tx!Anonymous
September 30, 2014
Does Hyper-V have an equivalent term to the VMware datastore?Anonymous
June 20, 2015
Thanks!. Help full.