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3. How many virtual machines do you want to deploy?
4. Which VMware product edition would you like to compare with Microsoft's solution?
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Selection of vSphere Essentials and vSphere Essentials Plus is disabled because this configuration exceeds the six processor limit of those products. Please adjust the number of VMs or the VM density settings if you wish to select an Essentials edition.
VM Fault Tolerance
Microsoft
3rd-party software
Log Analytics
Microsoft
Requires Azure services
VM Encryption
VMware
Embedded in hypervisor
Microsoft
Extra shielding infrastructure needed
Long-Distance Live Migration
Advanced Monitoring & Analytics
Microsoft
Requires Azure services
Cloud Costing & Comparison
Multi-Cloud Automation & Self-Service
Microsoft
Requires Azure services
Cross-Cloud App Provisioning & Monitoring
Microsoft
Requires Azure services
Enhanced Endpoint Security
Microsoft
Requires Azure services
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The following questions are designed to help you choose the right VMware virtualization solution for your organization. Answer the questions below and the calculator will recommend a VMware product that best meets your needs. After you have selected the best VMware product for your deployment, enter the details for your environment and compare the total cost of ownership versus a similar Microsoft environment.
1. Do you require vMotion, High Availability, or VM replication?
2. Do you require VM Fault Tolerance, Storage
vMotion, Virtual Volumes, storage APIs, or Content Library?
3. Do you require VM load balancing, storage load balancing, distributed switches, VM encryption, Proactive HA, or I/O controls for network and storage?
4. Do you require health monitoring and performance analytics, capacity management and optimization, or operations dashboards?
5. Do you require private cloud management, or unrestricted log analytics?
6. Do you require advanced cloud automation and self-service, or cloud cost showback automation?
7. Do you require private cloud application provisioning and monitoring?
5. What virtualization host type would you like to use?
Virtualization hosts are the servers on which you will install the hypervisor and use to run your virtualized applications. The following virtualization hosts are available:
• Server A 1 CPU, 32 cores/CPU, 256GB RAM
• Server B 2 CPUs, 24 cores/CPU, 384GB RAM
• Server C 4 CPUs, 20 cores/CPU, 768GB RAM
Servers B and C have more processors and memory than Server A and will typically run more virtual machines. The server price does not include shared storage hardware such as host bus adapters (HBAs), SAN switches, or disks; networking infrastructure (such as switches); electricity; cooling or space costs.
The virtualization hosts are the servers on which you will install the hypervisor and use to run your virtualized applications. The following virtualization hosts are available:
1 CPU, 32 cores/CPU, 256GB RAM
2 CPUs, 24 cores/CPU, 384GB RAM
4 CPUs, 20 cores/CPU, 768GB RAM
6. What type of storage would you like to employ?
Select the type of storage that meets your business needs. Storage options for virtual disks on your virtual machines include the following:
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Please select a Microsoft Hyper-V-compatible storage solution for comparison.
7. Infrastructure costs - Electricity
Select the most reasonable estimate for electricity costs in the proposed data center location.
8. Infrastructure costs - Data center real estate and build out
Select the most reasonable estimate for real estate costs in the proposed data center location. Fully burdened data center real estate cost includes facility capital cost for construction, power and cooling equipment, and weighted depreciation.
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9. What general VM density are you envisioning for your data center?
The default value for VM density is set to six VMs per processor. Depending on your hardware setup and workload size, you can adjust the number of virtual machines running on each processor.
10. Additional VMware VMs per CPU
Additional VMware VMs per CPU
vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus are only licensed for 6 CPUs. If you're interested in exploring larger environments, please select another VMware product edition.
11. Time frame
Please select the number of years for the TCO evaluation.
vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus are only licensed for 6 CPUs. If you're interested in exploring larger environments, please select another VMware product edition.