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 | |
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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 |