Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V X VMware vSphere 6.5
VMware is the existing competitor of Hyper-V and the current version 6.5 offers the VMware vSphere as a free and a standalone Hypervisor, vSphere Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus.
The following list compares all the features existing in the free version of Hyper-V with VMware Sphere and Enterprise Plus:
Feature |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Windows Server 2016 |
VMware vSphere 6.5 |
VMware vSphere 6.5 Enterprise Plus |
---|---|---|---|---|
Logical Processors |
320 |
512 |
576 |
576 |
Physical Memory Virtual CPU per Host |
4TB 2,048 |
24TB 2,048 |
12TB 4,096 |
12TB 4,096 |
Virtual CPU per VM |
64 |
240 |
8 |
128 |
Memory per VM |
1TB |
12TB |
6,128GB |
6,128GB |
Active VMs per Host Guest NUMA |
1,024 Yes |
1,024 Yes |
1,024 Yes |
1,024 Yes |
Maximum Nodes |
64 |
64 |
N/A |
64 |
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