Windows Memory Limits

Windows Memory Limits

Windows XP

	32 bit				64 bit
		SP1	SP2	SP3		SP1	SP2	SP3
Home Edition	4GB	4GB	4GB	4GB
Professional Edition	4GB	4GB	4GB	4GB	128GB	128GB	128GB	128GB

Windows Vista

	32 bit			64 bit
		SP1	SP2		SP1	SP2
Windows Vista Starter	1GB	1GB	1GB
Windows Vista Home Basic	4GB	4GB	4GB	8GB	8GB	8GB
Windows Vista Home Premium	4GB	4GB	4GB	16GB	16GB	16GB
Windows Vista Business	4GB	4GB	4GB	128GB	128GB	128GB
Windows Vista Enterprise	4GB	4GB	4GB	128GB	128GB	128GB
Windows Vista Ultimate	4GB	4GB	4GB	128GB	128GB	128GB

Windows 7

	32 bit	64 bit
Windows 7 Starter	2GB	2GB
Windows 7 Home Basic	4GB	8GB
Windows 7 Home Premium	4GB	16GB
Windows 7 Professional	4GB	192GB
Windows 7 Enterprise	4GB	192GB
Windows 7 Ultimate	4GB	192GB

 

Windows 8

	32 bit	64 bit
Windows 8	4GB	128GB
Windows 8 Professional	4GB	512GB
Windows 8 Enterprise	4GB	512GB

Windows 2000

	32 bit
		SP1	SP2	SP3	SP4
Windows 2000 Professional	4GB	4GB	4GB	4GB	4GB
Windows 2000 Server	4GB	4GB	4GB	4GB	4GB
Windows 2000 Advanced Server	8GB	8GB	8GB	8GB	8GB
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	32GB	32GB	32GB	32GB	32GB

Windows Server 2003

	32 bit			64 bit
		SP1	SP2		SP1	SP2
Windows Server 2003 Standard	4GB	4GB	4GB	16GB	32GB	32GB
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise	32GB,16GB with 4GT	64GB,16GB with 4GT	64GB	64GB	1TB	2TB
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter	128GB,16GB with 4GT	128GB,16GB with 4GT	128GB,16GB with 4GT	512GB	1TB	2TB
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard		4GB			32GB
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise		64GB,16GB with 4GT			1TB
Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter		128GB,16GB with 4GT			1TB

Windows Small Business Server 2003 is not supported
Windows Server 2003 Web is not supported

Windows Server 2008

	32 bit		64 bit
		SP2		SP2
Windows Server 2008 Standard	4GB	4GB	32GB	32GB
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise	64GB	64GB	2TB	2TB
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter	64GB	64GB	2TB	2TB

Windows Small Business Server 2008 is not supported
Windows Web Server 2008 is not supported
Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition is not supported

Windows Server 2008 R2

	64 bit
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard	32GB
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise	2TB
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter	2TB

Windows Small Business Server 2008 is not supported
Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation is not supported.
Windows Web Server 2008 R2 is not supported
Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC Edition is not supported

 

 Windows Server 2012

	64 bit
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter	4TB
Windows Server 2012 Standard	4TB

Windows Server 2012 Essentials is not supported.
Windows Server 2012 Foundation is not supported.
Windows Storage Server 2012 Workgroup is not supported
Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard is not supported

 

Juniper Application Acceleration WXC 250 series Rs. 50,000

Juniper Application Acceleration WXC 250 series

Juniper Application Acceleration WXC 250 series
Condition - refurbished
------------------------------------
Product Description
The Juniper Networks® WXC Series Application Acceleration Platforms, members of a larger family of WAN optimization solutions from Juniper Networks, provide distributed enterprises with a cost-effective solution for accelerating mission-critical business applications, as well as voice, video and terminal services, over wide-area networks, maximizing WAN investments and improving application response times for branch office users.

The WXC Series improves application performance over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions, accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols, prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth, and ensuring high application availability at sites with multiple WAN links. On-board hard drives that provide the foundation for the Network Sequence Caching feature enables the WXC Series to store particularly large data patterns over long periods of time, allowing the devices to identify and remove repetitive traffic separated by gigabytes of data or last seen days or even weeks earlier, producing up to a 100-fold increase in effective WAN capacity.

The TCP-, application- and protocol-specific acceleration features help overcome the impacts of latency, dramatically improving response times for remote and branch-office users accessing centralized applications over the WAN. Quality of service (QoS) and bandwidth management tools allow IT to prioritize application traffic, ensuring mission-critical transactions always have sufficient bandwidth while preventing less important applications from consuming an inordinate amount of valuable WAN resources.
Features

Compression and Caching
TCP Acceleration
SSL Optimization
Application- and Protocol-Specific Acceleration
Application Control
WebView and WX Central Management System software
Content Distribution
Easy Installation and Configuration

Benefits

The WXC Series Application Acceleration Platforms coupled with WX Central Management System delivers:

Uninterrupted productivity - Accelerates mission-critical applications and rich content by reducing the volume of traffic.
Confident interactions and transactions - Accelerates delivery of Web applications by speeding application-specific protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP/S, MAPI, CIFS).
Real-time collaboration and communications - Accelerates real-time business-critical applications, such as VoIP, by prioritizing and allocating bandwidth.
Quick, secure access to the WAN - Accelerates features for secure applications, such as HTTPS, encrypted Remote Desktop Connections, or CIFS with SMB signing.
Proactive network and application traffic management - Provides the network and application visibility to deliver applications exactly as intended, on a consistent basis.
Improved operational and cost efficiencies - Increases productivity through application acceleration, improving the bottom line.

 

Thanks

Sameer Naik

#9730046246

Multiple Remote Desktop sessions on Windows 8

Multiple Remote Desktop sessions on Windows 8

Use hex editor to replace 8D D4 FD FF FF 89 on Line 451DC to 3F FD DD 4D 3F FF

Tested on version 6.2.9200.16384, File size 558 KB (termsrv.dll) For Windows 8 (32 bit) with few registry changes

Thanks

Sameer Naik

MCP/MCSE/MCTS

MCSE ID # 3310894 | 7747203

 

What is NetScaler?

What is NetScaler?

Simple definition: NetScaler is a hardware device (or network appliance) manufactured by Citrix, which primary role is to provide Level 4 Load Balancing. It also supports Firewall, proxy and VPN functions
Other definitions:

By Citrix: "Citrix NetScaler makes apps and cloud-based services run five times better by offloading app and database servers, accelerating app and service performance, and integrating security. Deployed in front of web and database servers, NetScaler combines high-speed load balancing and content switching, data compression, content caching, SSL acceleration, network optimization, application visibility and application security on a single, comprehensive platform.
By using NetScaler to create a services delivery fabric overlay spanning enterprise and cloud datacenters, enterprises can make the cloud a transparent extension of their own network. IT organizations can extend existing in-place processes and tooling to the cloud-based services the business adopts. " (source: Citrix Netscaler ADC

Here are two good real examples of the benefit of NetScaler:
"Without NetScaler, we would have needed additional servers to handle growth. Avoiding buying additional servers and upgrading bandwidth saved us over 30.000 euros immediately. This is an attractive return on investment." Ignace Quaghebeur – System Engineer, Jetair
"Our number-one project is implementing the Oracle ERP. Giving brokers and co-manufacturers secure access to the system is imperative. Citrix NetScalers was the best solution for delivering Oracle with reliability, speed and cost-effectiveness." George Scangas – It Infastructure Manager, Welch Foods, Inc.
(Note: Both examples were extracted from the Citrix page link above)

"Netscaler optimizes application availability through advanced L4-7 load balancing and traffic management in order to accelerate performance" (Wikipedia entry)

Netscaler ADC -" A hardware and software solution providing advanced application and service delivery. Netscaler is a reverse-proxy with high-speed load balancing and content switching, data compression, content caching, SSL acceleration, network optimization, application visibility and application security on a single platform" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy)

What is Level 4 Load Balancing?
The level 4 refers to the Transport layer in the OSI model. A router with NAT (Network Access Translation) feature is considered a Layer 4 router instead of a typical network router which resides in the Layer 3 of the OSI model. The layer 4 Load Balancing router uses different rules to make decisions on where to route traffic. So servers and other machines with least load or fastest response times will receive the packets from the L-4 router

Read this explanation from wikipedia for a more precise definition and better understanding:
"A typical network router simply sends incoming packets onto the appropriate IP address on its network. A layer 4 router, more correctly a NAT with port and transaction awareness, uses a little trickery and sends incoming packets to one or more machines which are hidden behind a single IP address.
The layer 4 refers to the 7 layer OSI model. The router is on the Transport Layer and makes decisions on where to send the packets. Modern load balancing routers can use different rules to make decisions on where to route traffic. This can be based on least load, or fastest response times, or simply balancing requests out. This is also a redundancy method, so if one machine is not up, the router will not send traffic to it. " (wikipedia entry on MultiLayer_Switch )

Here are some models of the Netscaler hardware available (or discountinued) on the market

Citrix NetScaler 7000
Citrix NetScaler 9010
Citrix NetScaler 10010
Citrix NetScaler 12000
Citrix NetScaler MPX 5500
Citrix NetScaler MPX 7500 and MPX 9500
Citrix NetScaler MPX 9700, MPX 10500, MPX 12500, and MPX 15500
Citrix NetScaler MPX 17500, MPX 19500, and MPX 21500
Citrix NetScaler MPX 15000
Citrix NetScaler MPX 17000

Comparison: VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat Virtualization Matrix

 

 

 

 

Content	Content Creator	Virtualization Matrix	Content created by Virtualizationmatrix; (Contributors: Sean Cohen, Raissa Tona)	Virtualization Matrix	Virtualization Matrix
Assessment	Overview	vSphere 5.5 Enterprise Plus with Operations Management - Click Here For Overview	RHEV 3.3 - Click Here For Details	WS 2012 R2+ SC 2012 R2 (DC) - Click Here For Overview	XenServer 6.2 Commercial Edition - Click Here For Details
	Maturity	Release Dates: vSphere 5.5: Sep 22nd 2013 (ESX: 2001/2002, ESXi: Dec-2007) - more in details	RHEV 3.3 released in January 2014 (RHEV 3.2 - June 2013, RHEV 3.1 - Dec 2012, RHEV 2.1 - Nov 2009, 2.2: Aug 2010, RHEV 3.0: Jan	Release Dates - WS2012R2, SC2012R2: Oct 2013, WS2012: Sep 2012, SC2012 Apr 2012 - SP1 Jan 2013 (initial Hyper-V: Jun 08, SCVMM	6.2 Release Date: June 2013 (Xen - 2003, Citrix XenServer 2007, 5.6SP2 March 2011, v6: Sep 2011, 6.1: Sep 2012)
	Market Position	Leader (Position 1)	One of the 6 players in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2013 - Click here for details	Leader' Quadrant (behind VMware)	Challenger' Quadrant (behind VMware and MS)
Pricing	Virtualization ($)	OM Ent+ (5.5): $4,245/socket + S&S 1Y: $891 (B) or $1061 (Prod)	RHEV 3.3 Premium: $1,499/socket-pair/year RHEV 3.3 Standard: $999/socket-pair/year (Includes Desktop Virtualization Features)	Datacenter: $6,1554 for (up to) 2 sockets (28% increase)	Open Source (free) or commercial: Annual: $500 / socket, Perpetual: $1250 / socket (incl. SA and support)
	Management ($)	$4995(Std) + $1049(B) or $1249 (P), $1,495(Fnd) + $545(B) or $645(P)	n/a (included in RHEV hypervisor subscription	System Center 2012 R2 Datacenter: $3,607 or Standard $1,323 per managed endpoint (up to 2 CPU)	Free (XenCenter)
	Bundle/Kit Pricing ($)	See AK with OM - Enterprise Plus	Yes, combined RHEL and RHEV offering 26% savings	ECI (20% discount)	No
	Guest OS Licensing	One SLES subscription per active SnS	RHEV: No (RHEL: 1/4/unlimited)	yes - unlimited OSEs (Windows Server vms)	No
General	Central Management	Yes (vCenter Server Standard + enhanced Web Client), enhanced vCSA, new SSO	Yes (RHEV-M), various improvements, third-party plug-in framework now GA - NEW	Yes (System Center 2012R2 / VMM)	Yes (XenCenter), SCVMM (see details)
	Virtual and Physical	Limited (plug-ins)	Third-party plug-in framework	Yes (Complete SC mgmt, Fabric Updates, Storage Management)	No
	RBAC / AD-Integration	Yes (vCenter and ESXi hosts), enhanced SSO	Yes (AD and IPA)	Yes (SCVMM)	Yes (hosts/XenCenter)
	Cross-Vendor Mgmt	Limited (free) Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 ; (vCloud Automation Center - Fee-Based Add-On) $	No (yes with CloudForms - Fee-Based Add-On) $	Improved (VMware & Citrix Virtualization)	No (Yes for VDI and CloudPlatform - Fee-Based Add-ONs) $
	Browser Based Mgmt	Yes - Enhanced Web Client (with enhanced SSO and BDE)	Yes (RHEV-M, Power User Portal	Limited (SSPs)	No (Web Self Service: retired)
	Adv. Operation Management	vCenter Operations Management Suite Standard	No (yes with CloudForms - Fee-Based Add On) $	Yes (SC Operations Manager)	No
Updates and Backup	Hypervisor Upgrades	Yes (Update Manager)	Limited	Yes (Cluster Aware Updates, Fabric Updates; Management Servers - NEW)	Limited (CLI) - XenCenter updates with commercial version only! $
	VM Patching	Limited (Update Manager)	Yes (Red Hat Network)	Yes (WSUS, SCCM, VMST)	No
	Live VM Snapshot	Yes	Yes; Including RAM - NEW	Yes (Checkpoint) - incl. live export - NEW	yes
	Backup Integration API	Yes (vStorage API Data Protection)	Backup API - NEW	Yes (VSS API)	Limited
	Integrated Backup	Yes (vSphere Data Protection) - Replication of backup data, granular backup and scheduling - New!	No	Yes (WSB & DPM incl. Linux VMs - NEW), Azure Backup (New Fee Based Offering)	No (Retired)
Deployment	Automated Host Deployments	Yes - Auto Deploy	No	Yes (bare metal through VMM), incl. Scale-Out File Server Cluster - NEW	No
	VM Templates	Yes	Yes, CloudInit support - NEW	Yes (now incl. 'Gen 2' templates)	Yes
	Tiered VM Templates	Yes (vApp/OVF)	No ('Deployables' for CloudForms - fee based cloud add-on) $	Yes (Service Templates), guest cluster support - NEW	vApp
	Host Profiles	Yes (Host Profiles) - enhanced for Auto Deploy	No, Foreman Integration (Tech Preview) - New	Yes (physical computer profiles)	No
	Storage Profiles	Yes (Profile-Driven Storage)	No	Yes (Storage Classifications - incl. file shares - NEW)	No
Other	Resource Pools	Yes	No (but custom policies via new Scheduler)	Yes (Host Groups)	No
	P2V	Stand-alone only (Converter)	V2V, P2V & Partners	No (use 'down-level 'VMM versions)	No (XenConvert: retired), V2V: yes
	Self Service Portal	No; (vCloud Suite Fee-Based Add-On) $	User Portal	Yes (VMM console, App Controller, Service Manager/CSPP, Azure Pack - NEW)	No (Web Self Service: retired)
	Orchestration / Workflows	Yes (vCenter Orchestrator)	No (CloudForms - Fee-Based Edition) $	Yes (SC Orchestrator, SC Service Mgr)	Yes (Workflow Studio)
	Security	ESXi Firewall, vShield Endpoint (Free); (vCloud Networking and Security / NSX - Fee-Based Add-Ons) $	SELinux, iptables, VLANs, Port Mirroring; Trusted Compute Pools - NEW	Windows Security, Hyper-V Extensible Switch (DNSSEC, PVLANs, port ACLs, BitLocker etc.)	Basic (NetScaler - Fee-Based Add-On) $
	Systems Management	SNMPv3 +CIM, esxcli, vMA	Agent-based (RHEL), CIM, SNMP	Yes (WMI + PowerShell)	Yes (API / SDKs, CIM)

VM Mobility and HA
(Back to Top)

VM Mobility	Live Migration of VMs	Yes vMotion, Metro vMotion and 'shared nothing' vMotion (4-8 concurrent)	Yes (Live Migration - 1/CPU core up to 5 max)	Yes ('Unlimited' Concurrent, 'Shared Nothing'; new compression & SMB3 options)	Yes XenMotion (1)
	Migration Compatibility	Yes (EVC)	Yes (except with CPU pass-through - NEW)	Yes (Processor Compatibility)	Yes (Heterogeneous Pools)
	Maintenance Mode	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Automated Live Migration	Yes (DRS) - CPU, Mem, Storage (new affinity rules, migrate replicated vm - NEW)	Yes (LB) - Built-in (CPU) and New Scheduler for 'custom'	Yes - Dynamic Optimization (CPU, mem, disk I/O, Net I/O)	No (Workload Balancing: retired)
	Power Management	Yes (DPM), Enhanced Host Power Management (C-States)	Yes (Power Saving)	Yes - Power Optimization	No (Workload Balancing: retired)
	Storage Migration	Yes (Live Storage vMotion); including replicated vm (NEW)	Yes (Fully supported - NEW)	Yes (Live and 'Shared Nothing')	Yes (Storage XenMotion)
HA/DR	Cluster Size	max 32 host / 4000 vm per cluster	200 hosts/cluster	64 nodes / 8000 vims	16 hosts / resource pool
	Integrated HA (Restart vm)	Yes (VMware HA) - new affinity rules; improved Microsoft Failover Clustering - New	Yes (HA)	Yes (NIC and unmanaged Storage failure detection - NEW)	Yes
	Automatic VM Reset	Yes (VMware HA)	Yes (HA)	Yes (Heartbeat)	No
	VM Lockstep Protection	Yes (Fault Tolerance)	No	No	No
	Application/Service HA	App HA (NEW!)	No (yes with Symantec VCS - Fee-Based Add-On) $	Yes	No
	Replication / Site Failover	vSphere Replication - new UI, multi-PIT, Storage VMotion & vSAN compatible (NEW!) - (full functionality with SRM - Fee-Based Ad $	No (yes with Symantec VCS - Fee-Based Add-On) $	Hyper-V Replica (extended replication and replication frequency - NEW)	Integrated Disaster Recovery (no storage array control)

Hypervisor
(Back to Top)

General	Hypervisor Details/Size	Virtual Hardware 'version 10', VMware ESXi 5.5: Build 1331820, vCenter Server 5.5: Build 1312298, vCenter Server Appliance 5.5:	KVM with RHEV-H or RHEL - details here	Hyper-V '3'	XenServer 6.2: Xen 4.1.5 -based
Host Config	Max Consolidation Ratio	512vm, 4096 vCPU , max 32 vCPU / core	No limit stated	1024 vims/host, 2048 vCPUs/host	500 vm (Win) or 650 (Linux) per host
	Max CPU - Host	320 (Logical)	160 (logical)	320 Logical CPUs	160 (logical)
	Max Cores per CPU	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited
	Max Memory - Host	4TB (including Reliable Memory Technology)	2TB	4TB	1TB
VM Config	Max vCPU per VM	64	160 vCPU per VM	up to 64 vCPU (Win) / 64 vCPU (Linux)	16 (Win) / 32(Linux)
	Max RAM per VM	1TB	2TB	1TB	128GB
	Serial Ports	Yes max 4 (incl. vSPC)	No (serial console via hooks possible)	yes (named pipe)	No
	Hot Add/Plug	Yes (CPU, Mem, Disk, NIC), PCIe SSD - NEW!	Yes (disk, NIC)	disks and memory (dynamic) only	Yes (disk, NIC)
Memory	Dynamic / Over-Commit	Yes (Memory Ballooning)	Yes (virtio), Mem Balloon optimization and error messages - NEW	Yes - Dynamic Memory (Linux guest support - new)	Yes (DMC)
	Memory Page Sharing	Yes (Transparent Page Sharing)	Yes (KSM)	No	No
	HW Memory Translation	Yes	Yes	Yes (SLAT)	Yes
Interoperability	OVF Support	Yes	Yes	Yes (OVF Import/Export)	Yes, incl. vApp
	HW Compatibility	Very Comprehensive (see link)	Comprehensive	Strong Windows Ecosystem	Improving
	Guest OS Support	Very Comprehensive (see link)	Limited	Closing the gap	Good
	Scripting / APIs	Web Services API/SDK, CIM, Perl, .NET, Java SDKs, Client Plug-In API, vSphere Clip, vMA	REST API, Python CLI, Hooks, SDK	Yes (WMI API, PowerShell 4 - NEW)	Yes (SDK, API, PowerShell)
	Cloud API	vCloud API	REST API, Deltacloud API	Service Provider Foundation API, Azure Service Management API	CloudStack APIs, support for AWS API

Network and Storage
(Back to Top)

Storage	Supported Storage	DAS, NFS, FC, iSCSI, FCoE (HW&SW), 'End-to-End' support for 16Gb FC, Flash Read Cache - NEW	DAS, iSCSI, NFS (v4), FC, FCoE, SAS, POSIX; Virtio SCSI, GlusterFS support, online vDisk resize - New!	SMB3, virtual FC, SAS, SATA, iSCSI, FC, FCoE; shared vhdx - NEW	DAS, SAS, iSCSI, NAS, FC, FCoE
	SAN Multipath	Yes (enhanced APD and PDL) PDL AutoRemove - NEW	Yes (FC, iSCSI); Manage Storage Connections feature (NEW)	Yes (DSM and SMB Multichannel)	Yes (limited for SAS)
	Shared File System	Yes (VMFS v5)	SPM and support for shared FS; manual SPM role assigment - NEW!	Yes (CSV); enanced compatibility and resilience - NEW	Yes (SR)
	Boot From SAN	Yes (FC, iSCSI, FCoE and SW FCoE - NEW)	Yes	Yes (iSCSI, diskless, FC)	Yes (iSCSI, FC)
	Boot from USB	Yes	Yes	No (Hyper-V Server only)	No
	Virtual Disk Format	vmdk, raw disk (RDM)	RAW, Qcow2	.vhdx (incl. sharing and online resizing - NEW), vhd, pass-through (raw)	vhd, raw disk (LUN)
	Max Disk Size	62TB for vmdk, RDM and snapshots	Default max virtual disk size is 8TB (but it's configurable in RHEV DB)	64TB (vhdx), 2TB (vhd), 256TB+ (raw)	2TB
	Thin Disk Provisioning	Yes (incl. SE Sparse Disk)	Yes	Yes (Dynamic Disks, Trim - new)	Yes (Limitations on block)
	NPIV Support	Yes (RDM only)	Yes	Yes (Virtual Fibre Channel)	No
	Linked Images	No; (VMware View and vCloud Director - Fee-Based Add-On) $	Yes	Yes (Differencing Disk)	Yes - Clone on boot (new), clone, PVS, MCS
	SW Storage Replication	Yes - vSphere Replication (with multiple enhancements - NEW)	No (Red Hat Storage integration, Fee-Based Add-On) $	Yes (Hyper-V Replica), 'extended replication' and replication frequency - NEW	No
	Caching	Yes (vSphere Flash Read Cache) NEW!; View Storage Accelerator (VDI only)	FS-Cache	CSV Cache; Write-Back Cache - NEW	IntelliCache
	Virtual SAN	No - (VSAN NEW! - Fee-Based Add-On) $	No (Red Hat Storage integration, Fee-Based Add-On) $	Improved (Storage Spaces); Tiered Storage, Write-Back Cache - NEW	No
	Storage Integration (API)	Yes (VASA, VAAI and VAMP)	Third-party plug-in framework - e.g. NetApp Virtual Console - NEW)	SMI-S / SMP, ODX, Trim	Integrated StorageLink (deprecated)
	Storage QoS	Yes (SIOC) - incl. NFS	No (requires scripts)	Storage QoS - NEW	Basic
Networking	Advanced Network Switch	Yes (VDS), Various Improvements (for LACP, DSCP for QoS, filtering etc.) - NEW	Neutron Integration (Tech Preview) + various enhancements (ALL NEW!), click for details	Yes (Hyper-V Virtual Switch); Extended Port ACLs, vRSS, DLB - NEW	Yes (Open vSwitch) - distributed vSwitch is now deprecated
	NIC Teaming	Yes (up to 32 NICs), improved LACP - NEW	Yes	Yes (LBFO); Dynamic Load Balancing - NEW	Yes (incl. LACP - New)
	VLAN	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (limited for mgmt. traffic)
	PVLAN	Yes	No	Yes	No
	IPv6	Yes (enhanced performance - NEW)	Guests only	Yes	Yes (guests only)
	I/O Pass-Through	Yes (SR-IOV and VMDirectPath), new SR-IOV workflow	Yes (with hooks)	Yes - SRIOV (incl. Live Migration)	SR-IOV
	Jumbo Frames	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Offload Support	Yes (TSO, NetQueue, iSCSI)	TOE	Yes (D-VMQ, Ipsec Offload, SR-IOV )	Yes (TSO)
	Network QOS	Yes (NetIOC), DSCP - NEW	Yes (vNIC Profile - NEW!)	Yes (max and min bandwidth); SMB traffic types - NEW	Yes (outgoing)
	Traffic Monitoring	yes (Port Mirroring)	Yes (Port Mirroring); toggle through vNIC profile - NEW	Yes (port mirroring); enhanced tracing - NEW	Yes (Port Mirroring)

Cloud (Extensions)
(Back to Top)

Cloud	Overview	vCloud Suite (private), vCloud Hybrid Service (hybrid/public), Pivotal Spin-off	RHCI: CloudForms, OpenStack, RHEV; OpenShift (Fee-Based Add-On) $	Cloud OS: System Center, Hyper-V, Azure	CloudPlatform $
	Private Cloud	vCloud Suite (Fee-Based Offering), includes vCD (Service Providers), vCAC (Enterprise Customers)	RHCI 4 (Fee-Based Add-On) $	Hyper-V 2012 R2 + System Center 2012 R2 (CIS Suite Datacenter)	CloudPlatform (fee) $
	Public Cloud	vCloud Hybrid Service (VMware-operated); vCloud Datacenter Services, vCloud Powered Services (Service Providers) - (All Fee-Ba	OpenShift (PaaS), Cloud Access (RHEL, MGR-Grid, JBoss, Storage Server) through Red Hat Certified Cloud Providers - (Fee-Based A $	Windows Azure (PaaS, IaaS, Big Data, Media, Storage, Backup, Web& Media Apps) - Fee-Based Offerings $	CloudPlatform (fee) $
	Hybrid Cloud	vCloud Connector (Core); (vCloud Connector Advanced, vCAC - Fee-Based Add-Ons)	CloudForms - (Fee-Based Add-On); OpenStack and AWS - NEW $	App Controller; Windows Azure Pack, VPN Gateways - NEW	CloudBridge and NetScaler (fee) $
	Secure Multi-Tenancy (IaaS)	Yes - vCD, vCloud Networking and Security / VMware NSX (All Fee- Based Add-Ons)	Selinux, cgroups, OpenStack compute and network, CloudForms - (Fee-Based Add-On); RHEV Neutron Tech Preview - NEW $	Yes (Hyper-V Extensible Switch, Hyper-V Network Virtualization) - included	VLANs, OVS (included); Security Groups, custom networks (fee) $
	Network Virtualization / SDN - Overview	NSX optimized for vSphere, NSX for multi-hypervisor environment (expected Q4/13 as Fee-Based Offering)	Red Hat OpenStack Networking (part of RHCI) - (Fee-Based Add-On), RHEV Neutron Tech Preview - NEW $	Hyper-V Network Virtualization (IP Address Rewrite , GRE) - included in Server 2012	SDN Controller + SDN Plugins (CloudPlatform - fee) $
	Overlay Protocols	GRE, STT and VXLAN (NSX for multi-HV); VXLAN only (NSX for vSphere)	GRE with RHCI OpenStack (Fee-Based Add-On) $	NVGRE	GRE $

VDI (Extensions)
(Back to Top)

Desktop Virtualization	Overview	VMware Horizon Suite (Fee-based Add-On) Horizon 6 - Announced! $	VDI Included in RHEV; HTML5 support Tech Preview - NEW	Remote Desktop Services (included in Server 2012 R2)	Citrix Desktop Virtualization (XenDesktop & XenApp 7.5 - NEW; ViaB; associated products) $
	Market Position	Leader (Position 2) $	Contender	Major Player	Leader (P1) $
	Scalability	10k per POD - Click for Details $	not validated	Management Limitations (~500 users), powershell: thousands Architecturally: High	XenDesktop: High (100k+ users) ViaB: 'thousands of users', 8+ hosts $
	Complexity	Medium $	Low	Low/medium	Medium/High (XD) Low (ViaB) $
	Display Protocols	PCoIP, RDP 6/7 $	SPICE, VNC, RDP (default for Windows 8)	RemoteFX/RDP 6,7,8.x	XD: ICA / HDX, RemoteFX/RDP 6,7 ViaB: ICA / HDX, RDP 6,7 (no RemoteFX) $
	VDI (VMs)	Horizon View 5.3 - (Fee Based Offering) $	VDI in RHEV (included); SPICE HTML5 Tech Preview - NEW	RDS (pooled, personal); improved bandwidth, DirectX11.1, Session Shadowing, Online Dedupe etc. - NEW	XenDesktop 7.5; ViaB (VDI only) - Fee-Based Add-Ons) $
	Hosted Shared (Sessions)	Very limited (TS in W2k8 and W2k8R2) $	No	Yes (RDS RemoteApp and Desktop Sessions); Improved RemoteApp behavior, bandwidth, Session Shadowing etc - NEW	XenApp 7.5 (Fee-Based Add-Ons) - New $
	Graphics Capability	Physical GPU (virtualized) - NEW, virtual GPU $	SPICE (2D), SPICE HTML5 (Tech Preview)	RemoteFX (WAN, Adaptive Graphics, USB Redirection, Media Remoting, vGPU), DirectX11.1 - NEW	HDX, HDX3D Pro, shared GPU (OpenGL, DirectX) - (Fee-based Add-Ons) $
	Software GPU	Yes - VMware SVGA3D (Soft3D): DirectX 9.0c + OpenGL 2.1 $	No	Yes (SoftGPU)	DirectX Software Rasterizer for XD7.x + OpenGL Accelerator for ViaB, XD and XA $
	Shared GPU	Yes - vSGA (Virtual Shared): DirectX 9.0c + OpenGL 2.1 $	No	Yes- RemoteFX vGPU: DirectX11.1 for VDI only! (no support for recent OpenGL versions)	Yes - XD (7.1+): vGPU with NVIDIA Grid K1/K2 with CUDA, DirectX 9,10,11, OpenGL 4.3; XenApp: OpenGL GPU Sharing Add-on DirectX $
	Dedicated GPU	Yes - vDGA (Virtual Dedicated): DirectX + OpenGL = native GPU capability $	No	No	Yes (except ViaB); HDX3D Pro: DirectX and OpenGL = native GPU capability $
	Endpoint Platforms	very comprehensive: Windows, iOS, Android, MAC OS X, Linux $	Limited: Windows and Linux	Improved: Windows; iOS, Mac OS & Android Client - NEW	very comprehensive Windows, iOS, Android, MAC OS X, Linux etc. $
	Storage Optimization	Host Cache / CBRC; (VSAN - Fee-Based Add-On) $	No	SMB3 Online Dedupe, Tiering, Write-Back Cache - NEW	IntelliCache (incl. with XenServer) $
	User Portal / App Store	Horizon Workspace - (Fee-Based Add-On) $	Yes (Power User Portal) - incl. with RHEV	RDS Web Access	CloudGateway / StoreFront (fee) $
	Persona & Layering	Persona Mgmt + Horizon Mirage (incl. App Layers) - (Fee-based Add-On) $	No	User Profile Disk (included) and UEV (MDOP - Fee) $	personal vDisk, Citrix Profile Mgmt. $
	DaaS	Horizon DaaS (incl. Google Chromebook support) - (Fee-based Add-On) $	No	No (Mohoro Project)	XenDesktop 7.5 Cloud Deployment $

Extensions - Other
(Back to Top)

Other	Virtual SAN	vSAN - NEW! (Fee-Based Add-On) $	No (Red Hat Storage integration, Fee-Based Add-On) $	Improved (Storage Spaces); Tiered Storage, Write-Back Cache - NEW; Included	no
Other	Application Management	VMware vFabric Hyperic - (Fee Based Add-On) $	3rd Party	Yes (SC Operations Manager 2012 R2); Included	EdgeSight, Director (XenDesktop 7 - fee) $
	Security	vCloud Networking and Security / NSX (Fee-Based Add-Ons) $	sVirt & Security Partnerships	MS Forefront (Fee-Based Add On) $	NetScaler Gateway, App Firewall, CloudBridge (Fee-Based Add-On's) $
Other	Workflow / Orchestration	Orchestrator (incl.)	CloudForms - (Fee-Based Add-On) $	Yes (SC Orchestrator / SC Service Mgr 2012 R2), Included	Workflow Studio (incl.)
Other	Site Failover	Site Recovery Manager - (Fee- Based Add-On) $	Plugin - Symantec VCS (Fee-Based Add-On)	Hyper-V Replica (included) or 3rd party Fee-Based Add Ons	Integrated Site Recovery (incl.)
	Chargeback	vCenter Chargeback Manager - (Fee- Based Add-On $	CloudForms Insight (ManageIQ) - (Fee-Based Add-On) $	Hyper-V Resource Metering and Service Manager (included)	CloudPortal Business Manager, CloudStack Usage Server (Fee-Based Add-On's) $
	Network Extensions	yes (IBM 5000v and Cisco Nexus 1000v) - (Fee- Based Add-On) $	RoCE, LB - (Fee-Based Add-On) $	Hyper-V Extensible Switch - 3rd party Extensions (Nexus 1000V - Fee-Based Add On) $	NetScaler Gateway, AppFirewall, Branch Repeater, 1000v, CloudBridge (Fee-Based Add-On's) $

Top of Form

Bottom of Form