I’ve never had much to do with Hyper-V and my knowledge of it is nowhere near as strong as VMware, however since joining Nutanix I find the topic comes up more and more in conversations with clients. It’s great that Nutanix is hypervisor agnostic and supports multiple platforms, but this means I need to get up to speed with the Hyper-V lingo!
I’ve come up with the below table that I can use as my mini translator, so when in conversation I have a quick reference point.
| VMware vSphere | Microsoft Hyper-V | |
|---|---|---|
| Service Console | Parent Partition | |
| VMDK | VHD | |
| VMware HA | Failover Clustering | |
| VMotion | Live Migration | |
| Primary Node | Co-Ordinator Node | |
| VMFS | Clustered Shared Volume | |
| VM Affinity | VM Affinity | |
| Raw Device Mapping (RDM) | Pass Through Disks | |
| Distributed Power Management (DPM) | Core Parking | |
| VI Client | Hyper-V Manager | |
| vCenter | SCVMM | |
| Thin Provisioning | Dynamic Disk | |
| VM SCSI | VM IDE Boot | |
| VMware Tools | Integration Components | |
| Standard/Distributed Switch | Virtual Switch | |
| DRS | PRO/DO – Performance and Resource Optimsation/Dynamic Optimisation | |
| Web Access | Self Service Portal | |
| Storage VMotion | Quick Storage Migration | |
| Full Clones | Clones | |
| Snapshot | Checkpoint | |
| Update Manager | VMST – Virtual Machine Servicing Tool |