Kevin Remde's IT Pro Weblog
We’re no fools. We know that if you’re using Virtualization in your business, you're very likely using or have considered using VMware. And we also know that you may be considering Hyper-V for an additional (or alternative) virtualization platform. At least I hope you are.
That said, and if you’re just starting out learning Hyper-V, you may be confused about what terms or technologies equate from VMware into the world of Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2, and the System Center suite. So, for your benefit, here is a quick list of VMware terms/technologies and their equivalent technology in the Microsoft Virtualization world.
Product Terminology
VMware
Microsoft
Web Access
Self Service Portal
VI Client
Hyper-V Manager
Consolidated Backup
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
vCenter
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)
Virtual Machine Terminology
VMware Tools
Integration Component
Service Console
Parent Partition
VM SCSI
VM IDE Boot
Hot Add Disks, Storage, Memory
Distributed Power Management
Core Parking & Dynamic Optimization
Standard/Distributed Switch
Virtual Switch
Templates
Converter
SCVMM P2V / V2V
Update Manager
Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST)
Storage Terminology
VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)
VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)
Raw Device Mapping
Pass-Through Disk
Storage vMotion
Quick Storage Migration
Thin Provisioning
Dynamic Disk
Volume/Extent Grow
Expand Disk / Volume
High-Availability Terminology
VMware HA (High-Availability)
Failover Clustering
vMotion
Live Migration
Primary Node
Coordinator Node
VM Affinity
VMFS
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
Incidentally, this list was “borrowed” from the recorded content that is available on the Microsoft Virtual Academy; specifically the excellent recordings of Corey Hynes and Symon Perriman’s “Microsoft Virtualization for IT Professionals” training sessions (and even more specifically, Module 2). I highly recommend this training, and any other content that looks useful to you. It’s free, and very well done.
And if you have missed any of the series posts, check out my summary post for links to all of the articles available so far at http://aka.ms/cloudseries.