Hypervisors comparaisons : Proxmox Vs others

[sam]

Does anyone could please fill the following specs for PVE 1.8 in comparaison to other hypervisors ?

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[TD]
[/TD]
[TD]Citrix XenServer 5.6.1[/TD]
[TD]Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2[/TD]
[TD]Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2[/TD]
[TD]VMware vSphere 4.1[/TD]
[TD]Proxmox 1.8[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Bare-metal hypervisor
[/TD]
[TD]Yes
[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
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[TD]vCPUs per host
[/TD]
[TD]512[/TD]
[TD]512[/TD]
[TD]512[/TD]
[TD]512[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]vCPUs per VM[/TD]
[TD]8 Windows / 32 Linux[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]16[/TD]
[TD]16[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]RAM per host[/TD]
[TD]512GB[/TD]
[TD]1TB[/TD]
[TD]1TB[/TD]
[TD]1TB[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]RAM per VM[/TD]
[TD]32GB[/TD]
[TD]64GB[/TD]
[TD]256GB[/TD]
[TD]255GB[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Memory overcommitment[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Page sharing[/TD]
[TD]No[/TD]
[TD]No[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Virtual NICs[/TD]
[TD]7 per guest[/TD]
[TD]8 synthetic, 4 emulated[/TD]
[TD]8 per guest[/TD]
[TD]10 per guest[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
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[TD]VLAN support[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes (but with separate guest config)[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Guest OS support[/TD]
[TD]CentOS, Debian, Red Hat, Suse, Windows[/TD]
[TD]Red Hat, Suse, Windows[/TD]
[TD]Red Hat, Windows[/TD]
[TD]Most x86 operating systems[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
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[TD]Live migrations[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes (requires Windows Clustering)[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
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[TD]Live storage migrations[/TD]
[TD]No[/TD]
[TD]No (but can automate with VM suspend)[/TD]
[TD]No[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Load balancing[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]High availability[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes (but not for complete host failure)[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Maintenance mode for hosts[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Templating and cloning[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Thin provisioned VM disks[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]VM import/export[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Snapshots[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Remote console[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]PXE boot for VMs[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Shared storage[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]Storage multipathing[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
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[TD]Shared resource pools[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]API
[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]Yes[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
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Source : http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtuali...rix-microsoft-red-hat-and-vmware-666?page=0,4

Citrix XenServer	$1,000 for Advanced, $2,500 for Enterprise, $5,000 for Platinum; per server pricing, no CPU restrictions.
MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V	Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard starts at $1,029 per server. Datacenter edition starts at $2,999 per CPU. The System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) costs $1,315 per CPU.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization	Standard (business hour support): $499 per socket per year. Premium (24x7 support): $749 per socket per year.
VMware vSphere	$995 for vSphere Standard (one CPU), $3,495 for Enterprise Plus (one CPU). Support not included.
Proxmox 1.8

[TD="colspan: 2"] Pricing server virtualization
[/TD]

Source : http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtuali...rix-microsoft-red-hat-and-vmware-666?page=0,5

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Thx

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[jva1601]

It would be a good idea if Proxmox had a comparison chart posted on the proxmox website for potential customers to see.