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Comparison of cost of virtualization deployment per virtualized - VMware Vs Microsoft06-19-13

VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator Results Report

The VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator compares the cost of virtualizing applications on VMware

vSphere 5.1 versus other commodity virtualization offerings, like Microsoft Windows Server 2012

(Hyper-V) or Citrix XenServer 5.6. The calculator implements an accurate and simple methodology

(Cost Per Application) to compare the actual capital cost of running applications in a virtual

infrastructure.

Scenario inputs

Number of Applications: 5

Server Type: Server C

Networking Storage Type: FC SAN

Vendor to Compare: Microsoft

VMware vSphere 5.1 Edition: Enterprise Plus

Management Deployment: Virtual

Power Cost: High

Real Estate Cost: High

Results

Based on your input selection, VMware's cost per application is just 29% higher than Microsoft's

Additional ResourcesWhat is Cost per Application and how does VMware Cost Per Application Calculator work

Cost Per Application Calculator Methodology and Assumptions

Analyst research

Hypervisor Shootout: Maximizing Workload Density in the Virtualization Platform (Taneja Group)

VMwares operational efficiency advantage: VMware vSphere vs, Microsoft Hyper-V

VMwares scalability advantage: VMware vSphere vs. Microsoft Hyper-V

Customer Cases

Read our customer success stories

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unique features such as vMotion, DRS, DPM, Update Manager, and HA can generate

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solution in the market, and see how you can benefit from its unique features

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Executive Summary

The unique features and architectural design of VMware vSphere 5.1 allow you to run many more

applications per server (higher VM density) at an acceptable level of performance than other

virtualization solutions. In our own testing and from reviews of our customers, we have seen VMware

vSphere 5.1 users commonly achieve 50-70% higher VM density per host than with Microsoft Hyper-V,resulting in a 20-30% lower cost per-application.

Based on your inputs, the cost-per-application to virtualize 5 applications using VMware

vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus Edition is $19,162 29% higher1 than with Microsoft Hyper-V and

System Center 2012.

VMware also offers other editions of vSphere besides the one you chose, and each offers a different

level of functionality to meet specific business requirements. For a complete comparison with

Microsoft Hyper-V + Systems Center, we have included other VMware vSphere 5.1 editions in thegraphs and table below. The VMware vSphere 5.1 edition you have selected is highlighted for easy

reference.

Graph 1 Comparison of the Cost-Per-Application to Virtualize 5 Applications

VMware vSphere 5.1 can deliver a much lower cost per application

than Microsoft's virtualization offerings

1 Assumes that a VMware ESXi host can run 20% more applications than a Microsoft Hyper-V host

Note: The comparison graph assumes a new deployment, i.e., no pre-existing VMware vSphere or VMware

Infrastructure 3 deployment. For new deployments in small office settings, VMware offers multiple low cost

bundles -- vSphere Essentials Plus, vSphere Standard and Enterprise Acceleration kits, vSphere Enterprise

Plus Acceleration Kit -- that include licenses for vSphere and vCenter Server for centralized management.

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Table 1 Detailed Cost-per-Application Comparison

As VMware vSphere 5.1 enables greater application density, it requires fewer servers to host your applications,

resulting in a lower cost per application.

VMware vSphere 5.1 Microsoft

Enterprise Plus

Edition

Enterprise

Edition

Standard

Edition

Hyper-V +

SystemCenter 2012

Number of applications

virtualized*

6 6 6 6

Number of VMs per

host

29 29 29 24

Number of hosts 2 2 2 2

Infrastructure Costs $58,204 $58,204 $58,204 $58,204

Software Costs $37,607 $33,974 $23,508 $15,821

Total Costs $95,811 $92,178 $81,712 $74,025Cost-per-application $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

Cost-per-application

Savings

-29% -25% -10%

Note: A minimum of 2 virtualization hosts is required for high availability or live migration.

Table 2 Feature List Comparison

vSphere 5.1 has not only a lower Cost per Application, but it is also a more robust, reliable solution, providingfeatures that Microsoft Hyper-V + Systems Center does not have.


Enterprise

Plus

Edition

Enterprise

Edition

Standard

Edition

Essentials

Plus

Edition

Essentials

Edition

Windows Server

2012 Hyper-V +

System Center 2012

Ultra-thin hypervisor

High Virtual Machine

Density

No advanced

memory

management

Clustered File System CSV not true

cluster file system

Built-in online/offline VM

patching

Requires Config

Manager

Storage Thin

Provisioning Not recommended in

production

High Availability Failover Clustering:

Based on legacy

quorum model;

complex and brittleData Protection Requires Data

Protection Manager

Hot Add CPU, memory,

disk and virtual devices Only disk and

memory

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VM Fault Tolerance

vShield Zones

vShield Endpoint

Dynamic resource

scheduling

Distributed power

management

Storage APIs for Array

Integration

Distributed Network

Switch

Storage & Network I/O

Controls

Auto host deployment

with profiles

Profile-driven storage

Dynamic storage

resource scheduling

Table 3 Sensitivity Analysis The Number of Additional VMs per vSphere Host

Required to Realize a Lower Cost per Application than Hyper-V

Most customers are able to realize a savings from VMware solutions with an average of two extra VMs per vSphere

host - while also benefiting from VMware vSphere 5.1 advanced architecture and functionality.

Cost-per-application breakevenNumber of VMs

per host

Number of hosts VMware Microsoft

VMware

vSphere

Microsoft

Hyper-V

VMware

vSphere

Microsoft

Hyper-V

Enterprise Plus

Edition

Enterprise

Edition

Standard

Edition

Hyper-V +

System

Center 2012

24 24 2 2 $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

25 24 2 2 $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

26 24 2 2 $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

27 24 2 2 $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

28 24 2 2 $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

29 24 2 2 $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

30 24 2 2 $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

Given the deployment size you selected (5):

Appendix A: Detailed Breakdown Of Cost-Per-Application Calculations

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Table 4 shows a detailed overview of the cost per application composition for the deployment you

selected.

Table 4 Detailed overview of the cost-per-application for virtualizing 5 applications


Enterprise Plus

Edition

Enterprise

Edition

Standard

Edition

Hyper-V +

System

Center 2012

Infrastructure CostServers $27,600 $27,600 $27,600 $27,600

Storage $22,000 $22,000 $22,000 $22,000

Networking $4,000 $4,000 $4,000 $4,000

Power and cooling (1

Year)

$2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000

DataCenter Space (1

Year)

$2,604 $2,604 $2,604 $2,604

Total Infrastructure

Cost

$58,204 $58,204 $58,204 $58,204

Virtualization SW Cost

VMware vSphere 5.1 +

SnS

$20,483 $16,849 $6,383

Hyper-V $0

Windows Licenses Cost

Win 2012 w/Hyper-V +

SA

$14,430 $14,430 $14,430 $14,430

Virtualization Mgmt. SW Cost

VMware Management

SW Total

$2,695 $2,695 $2,695

vCenter and SnS $2,695 $2,695 $2,695

Windows for vCenter

server and SQL

$0 $0 $0

SQL 2005 for vCenter $0 $0 $0

Microsoft Management

SW Total

$1,391

SMSD and SA $0

Essentials 2010 w/o SQL

Server and SA

$155

Essentials 2010 with SQLServer and SA

$0

Essentials Server ML (1

MLP) and SA

$0

Essentials Plus Server

ML (1 MLP) and SA

$1,236

Windows for SC servers $0

Total Management

Software Cost

$2,695 $2,695 $2,695 $1,391

Total Software Cost $37,607 $33,974 $23,508 $15,821

Total Cost $95,811 $92,178 $81,712 $74,025

Total Cost per App. $19,162 $18,436 $16,343 $14,805

% VMware Savings -29% -25% -10%

Server Hardware

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Table 5

Virtualization hosts and management servers cost VMware Microsoft

Number of virtualization hosts 2 2

Number of servers for Management and DB 0 0

Cost of Virtualization hosts (with Support) $27,600 $27,600

Cost of management and DB servers (with Support) $0 $0

Total cost for servers $27,600 $27,600

StorageTable 6

Storage cost VMware Microsoft

Number of HBAs 4 4

Cost per HBA $1,250 $1,250

Total HBA cost $5,000 $5,000

Number of SAN switches 2 2

Cost per SAN switch $6,000 $6,000

Total SAN switch cost $12,000 $12,000

Number of SAN storage GBs 500 500

Average amortized cost for SAN storage (per GB) $5 $5

Storage Array Cost* $5,000 $5,000

Total Storage cost $22,000 $22,000

* Storage Array Cost include cost of disk and other hardware components

NetworkingTable 7

Network VMware Microsoft

Number of virtualization hosts 2 2

Number of management and DB servers 0 0

Number of NICs per virtualization host 4 4

Number of NICs per management and DB servers 2 2

Total Number of NICs 8 8

Number of ports per NIC 2 2

Number of ports per network switch 24 24

Number of network switches needed 1 1

Cost of network switch $4000 $4000

Total Network cost $4,000 $4,000

Power and cooling (Year 1)Table 8

Power and Cooling cost (Year 1) VMware Microsoft

Actual Operating Power (Watts per server) 424 424

Actual Cooling Power (Watts per server) 530 530

Total cost for power and cooling $2,000 $2,000

Data Center Space (Year 1)Table 9

Data Center Space cost (Year 1) VMware Microsoft

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Total number of racks 1 1

Total area of data center consumed by servers (sqft) 7 7

Average fully burdened data center cost per square $372 $372

Total cost of real estate $2,604 $2,604

VMware virtualization and management software

Table 10 VMware software

VMware Sphere 5 Number of

Units

Lic. Unit

Cost

SnS Unit

cost

(Productio

n 2 yrs)

Total

Initial

License

Cost

2 yrs

Productio

n SnS

License

and Sns

vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus

Edition

4 $3,495 $1,626 $13,980 $6,503 $20,483

vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Edition 0 $2,875 $1,337 $0 $0 $0vSphere 5.1 Standard Edition 0 $995 $601 $0 $0 $0

vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus Acc.

Kit 6 CPUs (includes vCenter

Standard)

0 $21,995 $6,491 $0 $0 $0

vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Acc. Kit 6

CPUs (includes vCenter Standard)

0 $17,495 $5,561 $0 $0 $0

vSphere 5.1 Standard Acc. Kit 8

CPUs (includes vCenter Standard)

0 $6,995 $4,061 $0 $0 $0

vSphere 5.1 Essential Plus (w/ 1

vCenter Found. lic.)

0 $4,495 $2,091 $0 $0 $0

vSphere 5.1 Essential (w/ 1

vCenter Found. lic.)

0 $495 $121 $0 $0 $0

Total cost for virtualization

platform software

$13,980 $6,503 $20,483

vCenter Server 5 Standard

(Up to 300 managed nodes)

0 $4,995 $2,323 $0 $0 $0

vCenter Server 5 Foundation

(Up to 3 managed nodes)

0 $1,495 $1,200 $0 $0 $0

Total cost for virtualization

management software

$0 $0 $0

Total cost VMware software $15,475 $7,702 $23,177

Windows operating system software

Table 11 Windows OS and SQL Server licensing cost for VMware solution

Windows OS and SQL Licensing

and SA

Number of

Units

Lic. Unit

Cost

SA (2 yrs) Total

License

Total SA

Cost

License

and SA

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Cost

Virtualization hosts

Windows 2012 Datacenter Edition 4 $2,405 $1,203 $9,620 $4,810 $14,430

Windows 2012 Standard Edition 0 $441 $221 $0 $0 $0

Total cost of Windows OS used

for virtualization hosts

$9,620 $4,810 $14,430

Management servers

Windows 2012 Datacenter Edition $2,405 $1,203 $0 $0 $0



for management hosts

$0 $0 $0

SQL Server Standard Edition (per

Server with 5 CALs and SA)

0 $1,718 $429 $0 $0 $0

Total cost of Windows OS and

SQL Server

$9,620 $4,810 $14,430

Table 12 Windows OS and SQL Server licensing cost for Microsoft solution

Windows OS Licensing and SA Number of

Units

Lic. Unit

Cost

SA (2 yrs) Total

License

Cost

Total SA

Cost

License

and SA

Virtualization hosts

Windows 2012 Datacenter Edition 4 $2,405 $1,203 $9,620 $4,810 $14,430

Windows 2012 Standard Edition 0 $441 $221 $0 $0 $0Total cost of Windows OS used

for virtualization hosts

$9,620 $4,810 $14,430

Management servers

Windows 2012 Datacenter Edition $2,405 $1,203 $0 $0 $0



for management hosts

$0 $0 $0

Total cost of Windows OS and

SQL Server

$9,620 $4,810 $14,430

Table 13 Microsoft System Center 2012 and Microsoft management software

System Center 2012 and SQL

software license (w/ SA) cost

Number of

Units

Lic. Unit

Cost

SA(2 yrs) License

Cost

SA Cost Total

SC 2012 Datacenter (per CPU) 0 $1,202 $601 $0 $0 $0

SCCM with SQL Server 2005

Standard

0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

SCOM with SQL Server 2012

Standard

0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

SCOM w/o SQL 0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

SCDPM 0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

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SCVMM (stand-alone edition - 2

yrs of SA mandatory)

0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Essentials 2010 (up to 15 OSEs) 1 $103 $52 $103 $52 $155

Essentials 2010 with SQL Server

2012

0 $870 $435 $0 $0 $0

Essentials Server ML (1 MLP) 0 $103 $52 $0 $0 $0

Essentials Plus Server ML (1 MLP) 2 $412 $206 $824 $412 $1,236

SQL Server Standard Edition (per

Server with 5 CALs and SA)

0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Total Cost Microsoft

Virtualization Management

software

$927 $464 $1,391

Appendix B: Assumptions On Hardware Infrastructure

Assumptions apply to both VMware and Microsoft.

Default Common Assumptions Currently Selected

Data Center Server Profile Server C (2 CPUs Six Core 96GB

RAM)

Virtualization host

Number of sockets 2

Number of cores per socket 6

RAM Memory(GB) 128

Networking cards 4

Rack size (U) 2

Virtualization host server cost (USD) $12000

3YRS support and maintenance cost (as a percentage of original

purchase price)

15%

Management and DB servers - only if "Physical" deployment has been selected

Number of sockets 0

Number of cores per socket 0

RAM (GB) 0

Networking cards 0

Rack size (U) 0

Virtualization host server cost (USD) (without support) $0

3YRS support and maintenance cost (as a percentage of original

purchase price)

0

Data Center Storage Profile

Number of ports per SAN switch 24

Number of HBAs per server 2

Unit cost of an HBA $1250

Unit cost of SAN switch $6000

Cost for FC SAN storage ($/GB) $5

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Cost of iSCSI SAN disk storage ($/GB) $3

Cost of NAS disk storage ($/GB) $3

Average disk space capacity per virtual disk per vm (GB) 100

Data Center Server Networking Profile

Number of ports per NIC 2

Number of ports per network switch 24

Unit cost of network switch $4000

Data Center Server Data Center Real Estate

Total number of Us per rack (specified in U) 24

Measurement unit for space Square Feet

Area occupied by single rack (sqft.) 7

Capital cost for facilities data center space build-out (per square

foot)

$1440

Capital cost for power and cooling equipment (per square foot) $1800

Average weighted depreciation to use for build-out and

equipment (in years)

10

Cost for space (lease, rent, mortgage) in $ per sq. ft. per year) $48

Average fully burdened data center cost per square foot per year $372

Data Center Server Power and Cooling

Price of electricity ($/kWh) for the data center facilities $0.12

Operating power (in Watts) per server 550

Steady-state constant used to convert nameplate power

consumption to steady state

0.77

Estimated cooling load factor (Watts of cooling electricity needed

to dissipate 1W of heat)

0.8

Airflow redundancy required to cool the data center 0.25

Current airflow de-rating (percentage available for cooling) 0.8

Data Center Operating Hours

Hours per day 24

Days per week 7

Weeks per year 52

Top reasons why VMware vSphere 5.1 enables greater VM density

Due to its advanced technologies and architecture, VMware vSphere 5.1 makes it possible to

successfully run more applications per host (physical server) and to achieve higher VM density than

other solutions. Consequently VMware vSphere 5.1 delivers a lower cost per application than Microsoft

Windows Server 2012 (Hyper-V) + Systems Center. The most significant reasons why VMware

vSphere can enable a higher VM density per host include the following:

1. Memory Oversubscription VMware ESXi makes more efficient use of physical RAM by

reclaiming unused physical memory allocated to particular VMs (think of it as de-duplication for

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memory) and consolidating identical memory pages among VMs on a host. Both functions let

ESXi oversubscribe memory on a server with minimal impact to performance. This memory

oversubscription is no different than oversubscribing the CPU and network on a virtual host. Other

solutions, such as Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer, are beginning to implement memory

management techniques, but none use multiple methods for managing memory like VMware

ESXi.

2. Direct Driver Model VMware optimizes device drivers for virtualization and places them directlyin the ESXi hypervisor. By giving VMs direct and fast access to the hardware VMware ESXi can

achieve very high I/O throughput and can handle the I/O requirements for more VMs

simultaneously requesting hardware resources. Other hypervisors, such as Hyper-V and

XenServer, use an indirect driver model that leverages the generic Windows or Linux device

drivers located in management OS (Windows Server 2012 Parent Partition or Linux Dom0). The

indirect architecture single threads the I/O requests from all VMs through a single channel into

the Parent Partition/Dom0 instance of Windows Server/Linux, forcing the VMs to fight over

resources in the operating system. This creates an I/O bottleneck that reduces the I/O throughput

Hyper-V and XenServer can achieve; as more VMs are run on the same host, the I/O bottleneck

gets worse. The indirect driver model also makes every VM reliant on third-party device driversthat have achieved only basic WHQL certification Microsoft does not require device drivers used

with Hyper-V to be tested with a virtualized environment. That makes all your Hyper-V VMs

dependent on the component of Windows known to be its weakest link the device drivers.

3. High Performance "Gang" Scheduler VMware designed and optimized the ESXi process

scheduler to handle the resource requirements of many heterogeneous VMs. Other hypervisors

use the generic process scheduler of general purpose operating systems. These were not

designed for virtualization nor do they meet the special needs of multiple VM workloads. Generic

process schedulers, like used with Hyper-V and XenServer, were designed to fulfill different use

cases, such as providing an effective user interface experience. Because of its reliance on theWindows scheduler, Hyper-V gets hit by performance limits at levels far lower than those of

VMware ESXi and can run fewer VMs per host than VMware ESXi. By comparison, the

architecture of the ESXi "Gang" scheduler is optimized for virtualization. It can dynamically

account for the CPU and I/O needs of virtual machines by dynamically allocating more resources

and larger processor timeslices to VMs. The ESXi scheduler is also better at handling

multiprocessor VMs (also known as SMP VMs) by supporting near-synchronous coscheduling of

the virtual CPUs within a single multiprocessor VM.

4. DRS with Resource Pools VMware Infrastructure can dynamically load balance VMs across a

cluster so applications get required resources when they need them. This reallocation ofresources happens automatically and without service discontinuity, based on service levels set by

the application owners. DRS, with Storage and Network I/O controls, is essentially a safety net

that lets administrators run individual servers at higher utilization levels while meeting service level

agreementseven when spikes occur. DRS lets usage spikes that might overwhelm a single

server be leveled across many servers in a cluster with no interruption to the end user.

Bottom Line:

With these and other product advantages VMware customers report that they can achieve 50-70%

higher VM density per host than with Microsoft Hyper-V. This results in a 20-30% lower

cost-per-application on average. However, VMware vSphere 5.1 will also provide a lower

cost-per-application than Microsoft Hyper-V even at a similar VM density.

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