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Report Summary

The Matrix Score reflects the relative strength of the evaluated products; higher = better

Matrix Scores 260

195

130

Your Custom Matrix Scores 210 159 188 183

Baseline Matrix Scores1 176 121 150 112

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Total Products Evaluated 4 of which Specified as

Matrix Features total number of features (lines) 114 "Must Have" 50

Custom Features custom lines added 0 "Nice to Have" 19

Total Evaluated Features 114 "Irrelevant/Excluded" 45

1 The baseline score is always calculated from the default matrix evaluations of each product. The custom score reflects the score adjusted to your requirements. (can only be different when selecting "custom report" during the initial wizard)

Detailed Matrix Scores

The "Matrix Score by category" view allows you to identify areas of strength or weakness (bold = leadership).

Custom Matrix Score - by Category

Category vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2

Total 210 159 188 183

General 8 9 3 13

Management 32 25 31 30

VM Mobility and HA 22 20 22 19

Hypervisor 52 44 48 40

Network and Storage 68 54 66 50

Cloud (Extensions) 0 0 0 0

VDI (Extensions) 28 7 18 31

Extensions - Other 0 0 0 0

Use "Feature Priorities by Category" to determine / validate your focus areas (high percentage of "must have" = important)

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Feature Priorities - by Category

Category Features Evaluated Must have Nice to have Irrelevant/Excluded

General 8 63% 13% 25%

Management 22 32% 9% 59%

VM Mobility and HA 12 42% 8% 50%

Hypervisor 17 82% 0% 18%

Network and Storage 25 68% 8% 24%

Cloud (Extensions) 7 0% 0% 100%

VDI (Extensions) 16 13% 81% 6%

Extensions - Other 7 0% 0% 100%

Identify Strengths and Weaknesses

Use these charts to visualize strengths and weaknesses - pay particular attention to number of "must have" features that are supported / unsupported.

Strenghts: Number of Supported (Green) Features by Product Weaknesses: Number of Unsupported (Red) Features by Product

80 55

60 41

40 28

20 14

Must have Nice to have

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By default all features are classified as "nice to have". You can only re-prioritize the importance of features when selecting "Custom Report" during the initial wizard". For "Strength": Higher = Better; For "Weaknesses": Higher = Worse

Identify Showstoppers

This section lists your potential "Show-Stoppers" for each product - i.e. features that you specified as "Must Have" but are unsupported (red). Carefully review any products and features that are listed here.

vSphere 5.5 (Enterprise Plus - with OM): This product has insufficient support for the following features that have been classified as important: { Virtualization ($) , }

RHEV 3.3 (RHEV): This product has insufficient support for the following features that have been classified as important: { Market Position , }

HyperV 2012R2 (DataCenter): This product has insufficient support for the following features that have been classified as important: { Management ($) , Virtualization ($) , }

No showstoppers listed? Select "custom report" during the initial wizard and re-prioritize features

Matrix Content (Appendix)

General Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Evaluation Panel Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM Content musthave Content Creator Virtualization Matrix Content created by Virtualization Matrix Virtualization Matrix Virtualizationmatrix; (Contributors: Sean Cohen, Raissa Tona) Assessment musthave Overview vSphere 5.5 Enterprise RHEV 3.3 - Click Here WS 2012 R2+ SC 2012 XenServer 6.2 Plus with Operations For Details R2 (DC) - Click Here For Commercial Edition - Management - Click Here Overview Click Here For Details For Overview

musthave Maturity Release Dates: vSphere RHEV 3.3 released in Release Dates - 6.2 Release Date: June 5.5: Sep 22nd 2013 (ESX: January 2014 (RHEV 3.2 - WS2012R2, SC2012R2: 2013 (Xen - 2003, Citrix 2001/2002, ESXi: June 2013, RHEV 3.1 - Oct 2013, WS2012: Sep XenServer 2007, 5.6SP2 Dec-2007) - more in details Dec 2012, RHEV 2.1 - 2012, SC2012 Apr 2012 - March 2011, v6: Sep 2011, Nov 2009, 2.2: Aug 2010, SP1 Jan 2013 (initial 6.1: Sep 2012) RHEV 3.0: Jan Hyper-V: Jun 08, SCVMM

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nicetohave Market Position Leader (Position 1) One of the 6 players in Leader' Quadrant Challenger' Quadrant Gartner Magic Quadrant (behind VMware) (behind VMware and MS) 2013 - Click here for details

Pricing musthave Virtualization ($) OM Ent+ (5.5): RHEV 3.3 Premium: Datacenter: $6,1554 for Open Source (free) or $4,245/socket + S&S 1Y: $1,499/socket-pair/year (up to) 2 sockets (28% commercial: Annual: $500 $891 (B) or $1061 (Prod) RHEV 3.3 Standard: increase) / socket, Perpetual: $1250 / $999/socket-pair/year socket (incl. SA and (Includes Desktop support) Virtualization Features) musthave Management ($) $4995(Std) + $1049(B) n/a (included in RHEV System Center 2012 R2 Free (XenCenter) or $1249 (P), $1,495(Fnd) hypervisor subscription Datacenter: $3,607 or + $545(B) or $645(P) Standard $1,323 per managed endpoint (up to 2 CPU) excluded Bundle/Kit See AK with OM - Yes, combined RHEL ECI (20% discount) No Pricing ($) Enterprise Plus and RHEV offering 26% savings

excluded Guest OS One SLES subscription RHEV: No (RHEL: yes - unlimited OSEs No Licensing per active SnS 1/4/unlimited) (Windows Server vms) Management

(Back to Top) Evaluation Panel Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM General musthave Central Yes (vCenter Server Yes (RHEV-M), Yes (System Center Yes (XenCenter), Management Standard + enhanced Web various improvements, 2012R2 / VMM) SCVMM (see details) Client), enhanced vCSA, third-party plug-in new SSO framework now GA - NEW

excluded Virtual and Limited (plug-ins) Third-party plug-in Yes (Complete SC No Physical framework mgmt, Fabric Updates, Storage Management) musthave RBAC / Yes (vCenter and ESXi Yes (AD and IPA) Yes (SCVMM) Yes (hosts/XenCenter) AD-Integration hosts), enhanced SSO

excluded Cross-Vendor Limited (free) Multi- No (yes with Improved (VMware & No (Yes for VDI and Mgmt Hypervisor Manager 1.1 ; CloudForms - Fee-Based Citrix Virtualization) CloudPlatform - Fee-Based (vCloud Automation Add-On) Add-ONs) Center - Fee-Based $ $ Add-On) $ excluded Browser Based Yes - Enhanced Web Yes (RHEV-M, Power Limited (SSPs) No (Web Self Service: Mgmt Client (with enhanced SSO User Portal retired) and BDE)

excluded Adv. Operation vCenter Operations No (yes with Yes (SC Operations No Management Management Suite CloudForms - Fee-Based Manager) Standard Add On) $

Updates and Backup musthave Hypervisor Yes (Update Manager) Limited Yes (Cluster Aware Limited (CLI) - Upgrades Updates, Fabric Updates; XenCenter updates with Management Servers - commercial version only! NEW) $

excluded VM Patching Limited (Update Yes (Red Hat Network) Yes (WSUS, SCCM, No Manager) VMST)

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musthave Live VM Yes Yes; Including RAM - Yes (Checkpoint) - yes Snapshot NEW incl. live export - NEW

excluded Backup Yes (vStorage API Backup API - NEW Yes (VSS API) Limited Integration API Data Protection)

excluded Integrated Yes (vSphere Data No Yes (WSB & DPM No (Retired) Backup Protection) - Replication of incl. Linux VMs - NEW), backup data, granular Azure Backup (New Fee backup and scheduling - Based Offering) New!

Deployment excluded Automated Host Yes - Auto Deploy No Yes (bare metal No Deployments through VMM), incl. Scale-Out File Server Cluster - NEW

nicetohave VM Templates Yes Yes, CloudInit support Yes (now incl. 'Gen 2' Yes - NEW templates)

nicetohave Tiered VM Yes (vApp/OVF) No ('Deployables' for Yes (Service vApp Templates CloudForms - fee based Templates), guest cluster cloud add-on) support - NEW $

excluded Host Profiles Yes (Host Profiles) - No, Foreman Yes (physical computer No enhanced for Auto Deploy Integration (Tech Preview) profiles) - New excluded Storage Profiles Yes (Profile-Driven No Yes (Storage No Storage) Classifications - incl. file shares - NEW)

Other excluded Resource Pools Yes No (but custom Yes (Host Groups) No policies via new Scheduler)

excluded P2V Stand-alone only V2V, P2V & Partners No (use 'down-level No (XenConvert: (Converter) 'VMM versions) retired), V2V: yes

excluded Self Service No; (vCloud Suite User Portal Yes (VMM console, No (Web Self Service: Portal Fee-Based Add-On) App Controller, Service retired) $ Manager/CSPP, Azure Pack - NEW)

musthave Orchestration / Yes (vCenter No (CloudForms - Yes (SC Orchestrator, Yes (Workflow Studio) Workflows Orchestrator) Fee-Based Edition) SC Service Mgr) $

musthave Security ESXi Firewall, vShield SELinux, iptables, Windows Security, Basic (NetScaler - Endpoint (Free); (vCloud VLANs, Port Mirroring; Hyper-V Extensible Switch Fee-Based Add-On) Networking and Security / Trusted Compute Pools - (DNSSEC, PVLANs, port $ NSX - Fee-Based NEW ACLs, BitLocker etc.) Add-Ons) $ musthave Systems SNMPv3 +CIM, esxcli, Agent-based (RHEL), Yes (WMI + Yes (API / SDKs, CIM) Management vMA CIM, SNMP PowerShell) VM Mobility and HA Evaluation Panel

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Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM VM Mobility nicetohave Live Migration of Yes vMotion, Metro Yes (Live Migration - Yes ('Unlimited' Yes XenMotion (1) VMs vMotion and 'shared 1/CPU core up to 5 max) Concurrent, 'Shared nothing' vMotion (4-8 Nothing'; new compression concurrent) & SMB3 options)

musthave Migration Yes (EVC) Yes (except with CPU Yes (Processor Yes (Heterogeneous Compatibility pass-through - NEW) Compatibility) Pools) musthave Maintenance Yes Yes Yes Yes Mode excluded Automated Live Yes (DRS) - CPU, Yes (LB) - Built-in Yes - Dynamic No (Workload Migration Mem, Storage (new (CPU) and New Scheduler Optimization (CPU, mem, Balancing: retired) affinity rules, migrate for 'custom' disk I/O, Net I/O) replicated vm - NEW)

excluded Power Yes (DPM), Enhanced Yes (Power Saving) Yes - Power No (Workload Management Host Power Management Optimization Balancing: retired) (C-States)

musthave Storage Yes (Live Storage Yes (Fully supported - Yes (Live and 'Shared Yes (Storage Migration vMotion); including NEW) Nothing') XenMotion) replicated vm (NEW)

HA/DR musthave Cluster Size max 32 host / 4000 vm 200 hosts/cluster 64 nodes / 8000 vims 16 hosts / resource pool per cluster musthave Integrated HA Yes (VMware HA) - Yes (HA) Yes (NIC and Yes (Restart vm) new affinity rules; unmanaged Storage failure improved Microsoft detection - NEW) Failover Clustering - New

excluded Automatic VM Yes (VMware HA) Yes (HA) Yes (Heartbeat) No Reset excluded VM Lockstep Yes (Fault Tolerance) No No No Protection excluded App HA (NEW!) No (yes with Symantec Yes No Application/Service VCS - Fee-Based Add-On) HA $

excluded Replication / Site vSphere Replication - No (yes with Symantec Hyper-V Replica Integrated Disaster Failover new UI, multi-PIT, Storage VCS - Fee-Based Add-On) (extended replication and Recovery (no storage array VMotion & vSAN $ replication frequency - control) compatible (NEW!) - (full NEW) functionality with SRM - Fee-Based Ad $ Hypervisor

(Back to Top) Evaluation Panel Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM General musthave Hypervisor Virtual Hardware KVM with RHEV-H or Hyper-V '3' XenServer 6.2: Xen Details/Size 'version 10', VMware ESXi RHEL - details here 4.1.5 -based 5.5: Build 1331820, vCenter Server 5.5: Build 1312298, vCenter Server Appliance 5.5:

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Host Config musthave Max 512vm, 4096 vCPU , No limit stated 1024 vims/host, 2048 500 vm (Win) or 650 Consolidation Ratio max 32 vCPU / core vCPUs/host (Linux) per host

musthave Max CPU - Host 320 (Logical) 160 (logical) 320 Logical CPUs 160 (logical)

musthave Max Cores per unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited CPU musthave Max Memory - 4TB (including 2TB 4TB 1TB Host Reliable Memory Technology)

VM Config musthave Max vCPU per 64 160 vCPU per VM up to 64 vCPU (Win) / 16 (Win) / 32(Linux) VM 64 vCPU (Linux) musthave Max RAM per 1TB 2TB 1TB 128GB VM excluded Serial Ports Yes max 4 (incl. vSPC) No (serial console via yes (named pipe) No hooks possible) musthave Hot Add/Plug Yes (CPU, Mem, Disk, Yes (disk, NIC) disks and memory Yes (disk, NIC) NIC), PCIe SSD - NEW! (dynamic) only

Memory musthave Dynamic / Yes (Memory Yes (virtio), Mem Yes - Dynamic Yes (DMC) Over-Commit Ballooning) Balloon optimization and Memory (Linux guest error messages - NEW support - new)

excluded Memory Page Yes (Transparent Page Yes (KSM) No No Sharing Sharing) musthave HW Memory Yes Yes Yes (SLAT) Yes Translation Interoperability musthave OVF Support Yes Yes Yes (OVF Yes, incl. vApp Import/Export)

excluded HW Very Comprehensive Comprehensive Strong Windows Improving Compatibility (see link) Ecosystem musthave Guest OS Support Very Comprehensive Limited Closing the gap Good (see link) musthave Scripting / APIs Web Services REST API, Python Yes (WMI API, Yes (SDK, API, API/SDK, CIM, Perl, CLI, Hooks, SDK PowerShell 4 - NEW) PowerShell) .NET, Java SDKs, Client Plug-In API, vSphere Clip, vMA musthave Cloud API vCloud API REST API, Deltacloud Service Provider CloudStack APIs, API Foundation API, Azure support for AWS API Service Management API Network and Storage Evaluation Panel (Back to Top) Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM Storage musthave Supported DAS, NFS, FC, iSCSI, DAS, iSCSI, NFS (v4), SMB3, virtual FC, DAS, SAS, iSCSI, Storage FCoE (HW&SW), FC, FCoE, SAS, POSIX; SAS, SATA, iSCSI, FC, NAS, FC, FCoE 'End-to-End' support for Virtio SCSI, GlusterFS FCoE; shared vhdx - NEW 16Gb FC, Flash Read support, online vDisk Cache - NEW resize - New!

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excluded SAN Multipath Yes (enhanced APD Yes (FC, iSCSI); Yes (DSM and SMB Yes (limited for SAS) and PDL) PDL Manage Storage Multichannel) AutoRemove - NEW Connections feature (NEW)

musthave Shared File Yes (VMFS v5) SPM and support for Yes (CSV); enanced Yes (SR) System shared FS; manual SPM compatibility and role assigment - NEW! resilience - NEW

musthave Boot From SAN Yes (FC, iSCSI, FCoE Yes Yes (iSCSI, diskless, Yes (iSCSI, FC) and SW FCoE - NEW) FC) excluded Boot from USB Yes Yes No (Hyper-V Server No only) musthave Virtual Disk vmdk, raw disk (RDM) RAW, Qcow2 .vhdx (incl. sharing and vhd, raw disk (LUN) Format online resizing - NEW), vhd, pass-through (raw)

nicetohave Max Disk Size 62TB for vmdk, RDM Default max virtual 64TB (vhdx), 2TB 2TB and snapshots disk size is 8TB (but it's (vhd), 256TB+ (raw) configurable in RHEV DB) musthave Thin Disk Yes (incl. SE Sparse Yes Yes (Dynamic Disks, Yes (Limitations on Provisioning Disk) Trim - new) block) excluded NPIV Support Yes (RDM only) Yes Yes (Virtual Fibre No Channel) musthave Linked Images No; (VMware View Yes Yes (Differencing Yes - Clone on boot and vCloud Director - Disk) (new), clone, PVS, MCS Fee-Based Add-On) $ excluded SW Storage Yes - vSphere No (Red Hat Storage Yes (Hyper-V Replica), No Replication Replication (with multiple integration, Fee-Based 'extended replication' and enhancements - NEW) Add-On) replication frequency - $ NEW musthave Caching Yes (vSphere Flash FS-Cache CSV Cache; IntelliCache Read Cache) NEW!; View Write-Back Cache - NEW Storage Accelerator (VDI only)

excluded Virtual SAN No - (VSAN NEW! - No (Red Hat Storage Improved (Storage No Fee-Based Add-On) integration, Fee-Based Spaces); Tiered Storage, $ Add-On) Write-Back Cache - NEW $

musthave Storage Yes (VASA, VAAI and Third-party plug-in SMI-S / SMP, ODX, Integrated StorageLink Integration (API) VAMP) framework - e.g. NetApp Trim (deprecated) Virtual Console - NEW)

nicetohave Storage QoS Yes (SIOC) - incl. NFS No (requires scripts) Storage QoS - NEW Basic

Networking musthave Advanced Yes (VDS), Various Neutron Integration Yes (Hyper-V Virtual Yes (Open vSwitch) - Network Switch Improvements (for LACP, (Tech Preview) + various Switch); Extended Port distributed vSwitch is now DSCP for QoS, filtering enhancements (ALL ACLs, vRSS, DLB - NEW deprecated etc.) - NEW NEW!), click for details

musthave NIC Teaming Yes (up to 32 NICs), Yes Yes (LBFO); Dynamic Yes (incl. LACP - improved LACP - NEW Load Balancing - NEW New)

musthave VLAN Yes Yes Yes Yes (limited for mgmt. traffic) excluded PVLAN Yes No Yes No

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musthave IPv6 Yes (enhanced Guests only Yes Yes (guests only) performance - NEW)

musthave I/O Pass-Through Yes (SR-IOV and Yes (with hooks) Yes - SRIOV (incl. SR-IOV VMDirectPath), new Live Migration) SR-IOV workflow

musthave Jumbo Frames Yes Yes Yes Yes musthave Offload Support Yes (TSO, NetQueue, TOE Yes (D-VMQ, Ipsec Yes (TSO) iSCSI) Offload, SR-IOV ) musthave Network QOS Yes (NetIOC), DSCP - Yes (vNIC Profile - Yes (max and min Yes (outgoing) NEW NEW!) bandwidth); SMB traffic types - NEW

musthave Traffic yes (Port Mirroring) Yes (Port Mirroring); Yes (port mirroring); Yes (Port Mirroring) Monitoring toggle through vNIC enhanced tracing - NEW profile - NEW Cloud (Extensions)

(Back to Top) Evaluation Panel Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM Cloud excluded Overview vCloud Suite (private), RHCI: CloudForms, Cloud OS: System CloudPlatform vCloud Hybrid Service OpenStack, RHEV; Center, Hyper-V, Azure $ (hybrid/public), Pivotal OpenShift (Fee-Based Spin-off Add-On) $

excluded Private Cloud vCloud Suite RHCI 4 (Fee-Based Hyper-V 2012 R2 + CloudPlatform (fee) (Fee-Based Offering), Add-On) System Center 2012 R2 $ includes vCD (Service $ (CIS Suite Datacenter) Providers), vCAC (Enterprise Customers)

excluded Public Cloud vCloud Hybrid Service OpenShift (PaaS), Windows Azure (PaaS, CloudPlatform (fee) (VMware-operated); Cloud Access (RHEL, IaaS, Big Data, Media, $ vCloud Datacenter MGR-Grid, JBoss, Storage Storage, Backup, Web& Services, vCloud Powered Server) through Red Hat Media Apps) - Fee-Based Services (Service Certified Cloud Providers - Offerings Providers) - (All Fee-Ba (Fee-Based A $ $

excluded Hybrid Cloud vCloud Connector CloudForms - App Controller; CloudBridge and (Core); (vCloud Connector (Fee-Based Add-On); Windows Azure Pack, NetScaler (fee) Advanced, vCAC - OpenStack and AWS - VPN Gateways - NEW $ Fee-Based Add-Ons) NEW $

excluded Secure Multi- Yes - vCD, vCloud Selinux, cgroups, Yes (Hyper-V VLANs, OVS Tenancy (IaaS) Networking and Security / OpenStack compute and Extensible Switch, (included); Security VMware NSX (All Fee- network, CloudForms - Hyper-V Network Groups, custom networks Based Add-Ons) (Fee-Based Add-On); Virtualization) - included (fee) RHEV Neutron Tech $ Preview - NEW $

excluded Network NSX optimized for Red Hat OpenStack Hyper-V Network SDN Controller + SDN Virtualization / SDN vSphere, NSX for multi- Networking (part of RHCI) Virtualization (IP Address Plugins (CloudPlatform - - Overview hypervisor environment - (Fee-Based Add-On), Rewrite , GRE) - included fee) (expected Q4/13 as RHEV Neutron Tech in Server 2012

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Fee-Based Offering) Preview - NEW $ $

excluded Overlay Protocols GRE, STT and GRE with RHCI NVGRE GRE VXLAN (NSX for OpenStack (Fee-Based $ multi-HV); VXLAN only Add-On) (NSX for vSphere) $ VDI (Extensions)

(Back to Top) Evaluation Panel Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM Desktop nicetohave Virtualization Overview VMware Horizon Suite VDI Included in Remote Desktop Citrix Desktop (Fee-based Add-On) RHEV; HTML5 support Services (included in Virtualization Horizon 6 - Announced! Tech Preview - NEW Server 2012 R2) (XenDesktop & XenApp $ 7.5 - NEW; ViaB; associated products) $ musthave Market Position Leader (Position 2) Contender Major Player Leader (P1) $ $ musthave Scalability 10k per POD - Click not validated Management XenDesktop: High for Details Limitations (~500 users), (100k+ users) ViaB: $ powershell: thousands 'thousands of users', 8+ Architecturally: High hosts $ excluded Complexity Medium Low Low/medium Medium/High (XD) $ Low (ViaB) $ nicetohave Display Protocols PCoIP, RDP 6/7 SPICE, VNC, RDP RemoteFX/RDP XD: ICA / HDX, $ (default for Windows 8) 6,7,8.x RemoteFX/RDP 6,7 ViaB: ICA / HDX, RDP 6,7 (no RemoteFX) $ nicetohave VDI (VMs) Horizon View 5.3 - VDI in RHEV RDS (pooled, XenDesktop 7.5; ViaB (Fee Based Offering) (included); SPICE HTML5 personal); improved (VDI only) - Fee-Based $ Tech Preview - NEW bandwidth, DirectX11.1, Add-Ons) Session Shadowing, Online $ Dedupe etc. - NEW

nicetohave Hosted Shared Very limited (TS in No Yes (RDS RemoteApp XenApp 7.5 (Sessions) W2k8 and W2k8R2) and Desktop Sessions); (Fee-Based Add-Ons) - $ Improved RemoteApp New behavior, bandwidth, $ Session Shadowing etc - NEW

nicetohave Graphics Physical GPU SPICE (2D), SPICE RemoteFX (WAN, HDX, HDX3D Pro, Capability (virtualized) - NEW, HTML5 (Tech Preview) Adaptive Graphics, USB shared GPU (OpenGL, virtual GPU Redirection, Media DirectX) - (Fee-based $ Remoting, vGPU), Add-Ons) DirectX11.1 - NEW $

nicetohave Software GPU Yes - VMware No Yes (SoftGPU) DirectX Software SVGA3D (Soft3D): Rasterizer for XD7.x + DirectX 9.0c + OpenGL OpenGL Accelerator for 2.1 ViaB, XD and XA $ $ nicetohave Shared GPU Yes - vSGA (Virtual No Yes- RemoteFX vGPU: Yes - XD (7.1+): vGPU Shared): DirectX 9.0c + DirectX11.1 for VDI only! with NVIDIA Grid K1/K2 OpenGL 2.1

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$ (no support for recent with CUDA, DirectX OpenGL versions) 9,10,11, OpenGL 4.3; XenApp: OpenGL GPU Sharing Add-on DirectX $

nicetohave Dedicated GPU Yes - vDGA (Virtual No No Yes (except ViaB); Dedicated): DirectX + HDX3D Pro: DirectX and OpenGL = native GPU OpenGL = native GPU capability capability $ $ nicetohave Endpoint very comprehensive: Limited: Windows and Improved: Windows; very comprehensive Platforms Windows, iOS, Android, Linux iOS, Mac OS & Android Windows, iOS, Android, MAC OS X, Linux Client - NEW MAC OS X, Linux etc. $ $ nicetohave Storage Host Cache / CBRC; No SMB3 Online Dedupe, IntelliCache (incl. with Optimization (VSAN - Fee-Based Tiering, Write-Back Cache XenServer) Add-On) - NEW $ $ nicetohave User Portal / App Horizon Workspace - Yes (Power User RDS Web Access CloudGateway / Store (Fee-Based Add-On) Portal) - incl. with RHEV StoreFront (fee) $ $

nicetohave Persona & Persona Mgmt + No User Profile Disk personal vDisk, Citrix Layering Horizon Mirage (incl. App (included) and UEV Profile Mgmt. Layers) - (Fee-based (MDOP - Fee) $ Add-On) $ $

nicetohave DaaS Horizon DaaS (incl. No No (Mohoro Project) XenDesktop 7.5 Cloud Google Chromebook Deployment support) - (Fee-based $ Add-On) $ Extensions - Other

(Back to Top) Evaluation Panel Version vSphere 5.5 RHEV 3.3 HyperV 2012R2 XenServer 6.2 Edition Enterprise Plus - RHEV DataCenter Commercial Edition with OM Other excluded Virtual SAN vSAN - NEW! No (Red Hat Storage Improved (Storage no (Fee-Based Add-On) integration, Fee-Based Spaces); Tiered Storage, $ Add-On) Write-Back Cache - NEW; $ Included

Other excluded Application VMware vFabric 3rd Party Yes (SC Operations EdgeSight, Director Management Hyperic - (Fee Based Manager 2012 R2); (XenDesktop 7 - fee) Add-On) Included $ $

excluded Security vCloud Networking sVirt & Security MS Forefront NetScaler Gateway, and Security / NSX Partnerships (Fee-Based Add On) App Firewall, CloudBridge (Fee-Based Add-Ons) $ (Fee-Based Add-On's) $ $

Other excluded Workflow / Orchestrator (incl.) CloudForms - Yes (SC Orchestrator / Workflow Studio Orchestration (Fee-Based Add-On) SC Service Mgr 2012 R2), (incl.) $ Included

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Other excluded Site Failover Site Recovery Manager Plugin - Symantec Hyper-V Replica Integrated Site - (Fee- Based Add-On) VCS (Fee-Based Add-On) (included) or 3rd party Recovery (incl.) $ Fee-Based Add Ons

excluded Chargeback vCenter Chargeback CloudForms Insight Hyper-V Resource CloudPortal Business Manager - (Fee- Based (ManageIQ) - (Fee-Based Metering and Service Manager, CloudStack Add-On Add-On) Manager (included) Usage Server (Fee-Based $ $ Add-On's) $

excluded Network yes (IBM 5000v and RoCE, LB - Hyper-V Extensible NetScaler Gateway, Extensions Cisco Nexus 1000v) - (Fee-Based Add-On) Switch - 3rd party AppFirewall, Branch (Fee- Based Add-On) $ Extensions (Nexus 1000V Repeater, 1000v, $ - Fee-Based Add On) CloudBridge (Fee-Based $ Add-On's) $

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