Where does VMware get a beat down from Hyper-V?

Where does VMware get a beat down from Hyper-V?

I am trying to put down my personal opinion where Hyper-V is gaining ground in the virtualization war at the Pre-Sales meetings that I have sat down. I think the views are important since it is we Pre-Sales Engineers who are at the forefront who are presenting the Pros and Cons of technology.  I was involved in an unbiased discussion (even though I would love to be biased towards VMware) in front of the customer which technology can compensate the business and a cost comparison.

Please note that these views are mostly when I sat at SMB customer discussions. It might be unfair to compare the vSphere Essentials Kits to the System Center Suite. But that’s the customer.

These views might differ from one geographical location to another. But simply put I would personally love to see VMware stay abreast in the game of Virtualization.

Sometimes you cannot do the same thing or say the same thing all over a long period. But making the correct moves and making those moves at the correct time is key.

1. Bundled comprehensive Backup Solution

This is an area of concern where VMware gets a beat down in my opinion where customers tend to think that they get a full Backup Solution for free when they purchase the System Center Suite.

As a Pre-Sales engineer I would love to say “VMware is not a backup vendor” but to realize the vision of “Software Defined Data Centre” a good backup solution is of paramount importance. The experience of VDP 5.1 was not so great. It cannot take backups to the tape drive. Whether we like it or not Customer’s love the word “FREE”. That’s where Microsoft scoring points. I would love to see VDP free edition would solve this problem, or I personally think acquisition of VEEAM will be a great move. (My sole crazy opinion)

2. Customers still buying the “Config Maximum” numbers

Hyper-V might not really be capable of delivering the maximum’s they state, and customers might not even need that kind of monster VM configurations. Still those increased numbers are a buying point for customers  for some reason.

Customers are now smart enough to get the datasheets from the respective websites to compare with the two hypervisors.

3. Like it or not Customers love the word “FREE”

The System Center Suite is appealing to customers since they see as if with one cost they get all other System Center products for FREE. May be its time to see that along with vCenter the Operations Management Suite, Site Recovery Manager, Security and Networking has to be bundled to one package and give out the bundled product as vCenter Management Suite. (I know its not practical but that’s where Microsoft is gaining in my opinion.)

Even though I hate to see this it’s quite appealing to see that you are getting so much more for one price.

• Operations Manager
• Configuration Manager
• Data Protection Manager
• Service Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager
• Endpoint Protection
• Orchestrator
• App Controller

I would wish to iterate that abover post was my sole personal views and I only want VMware to stay ahead of all other Hypervisor or Virtualization solutions out in the market.