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 |