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Compete (and Complementing) VMWare. Leon Booth, Solution Specialist, Microsoft Scott Gosling, Practice Lead, Data#3 Terry Burgess, vWorkspace Specialist, Quest. Voice of the Partner. Server Virtualisation. Desktop Virtualisation. Your Opportunity. Server Virtualisation in Australia.
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Compete (and Complementing) VMWare Leon Booth, Solution Specialist, Microsoft Scott Gosling, Practice Lead, Data#3 Terry Burgess, vWorkspace Specialist, Quest
Voice of the Partner • Server Virtualisation • Desktop Virtualisation • Your Opportunity
Server Virtualisation in Australia • Leading adoption of server virtualisation • >80% of EPG customers use virtualisation • >20% of production servers are virtualised • VMware Australia • is a leading subsidiary • is used as a best practice sales subsidiary within VMware. • They get to our customers before we do
VMWare FUD 1 Microsoft lacks live migration capabilities 2 Windows Server does not have clustered file systems 3 Hyper-V is a 1.0 product 4 Hyper-V has low performance 5 ESX’s footprint size
VMWare FUD 6 VMware supports the most hardware 7 VMware offers better management capabilities 8 VMware can accommodate twice as many virtual machines on its hypervisor 9 VMware is cost competitive 10 You need VMware to virtualise
Why Customers are Excited about Microsoft Virtualisation Best TCO/ROI Data centre to desktop It’s the Platform you know End-to-End Management VMware is 6 times the cost of Microsoft Key feature of platform Full range of products & solutions Physical and Virtual & Cross-hypervisor Significant Savings Tools you know Interoperability Large partner eco-system Lower ongoing costs
Windows Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V • Better flexibility • Live Migration • Cluster Shared Volumes • Hot Add/remove of Storage • Improved performance • Improved memory management with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) • Reduced CPU burden with TCP Offload support • Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Support • Improved Networking throughput with Jumbo Frame Support • Greater scalability • 64 logical processor support • Processor power management support and enhance Green IT with Core Parking
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 • RTM within 60 days of Windows Server 2008 R2 • Enables new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 • Address major customer asks • Support for new Windows Server 2008 R2 features • Live migration • Support for CFS (Clustered Shared Volumes and 3rd party solutions) • Hot add/remove of VHDs, Pass-through disks • Maintenance mode • Evacuate VMs from host using Live migration • Storage Migration • Support new Quick Storage Migration • Enables Storage VMotion with ESX hosts
Managing The Server Lifecycle Hardware Provisioning Backup Server ManagementSuite Enterprise/Datacenter Virtual Workload Provisioning Disaster Recovery OS / Software Deploy, Patching and State Mgmt Performance and Health Monitoring
Scott Gosling Data #3
VMWare FUD 1 VDI lowers TCO 2 Microsoft doesn’t have features to support enterprise class VDI 3 VDI will reduce your Microsoft Licensing spend
VMWare FUD 4 Microsoft doesn’t have a VDI solution 5 Microsoft doesn’t like Virtualisation 6 Microsoft too complex and expensive 7 Microsoft is a multivendor solution
Terry Burgess Quest
Replaceable PC Flexibility, easy to migrate users Mobile • Hot-Desking • Flexibly, compliance, free seating • Extending PC Life • Security, low cost, carbon-neutral Office • Hosted Image • Security, right apps and data Task • Working from Home • Security, emergency access Contract / Offshore Work from Home
Choosing the right solution Mapping of existing options Essential • First steps given their relatively easier deployment significant benefits in the short term Data Layer • User State Virtualisation Application Layer • Application Virtualisation Discretionary • Powerful solutions to maximize flexibility and efficiency but that require more sophisticated technical skills and a larger investments • Desktop Virtualisation • Client-hosted desktop virtualisation • Server-based desktop virtualisation Operating System Layer • Terminal Services • VDI
Virtualisation airlift • Get Certified • POCs