Hyper-V and VMware Technology and Terminology Comparison

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In many cases we compare Hyper-V and VMware technologies. But do we always know that we compare apples with apples ? 

The following table helps to map Microsoft Hyper-V technologies and  terminologies to VMware terminologies.

Hyper-V

VMware

Parent Partition

Service Console

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)

VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)

Failover Clustering

VMware HA (High Availability)

Live Migration

vMotion

CSV (Clustered Shared Volumes)

VMFS

Coordinator Node

Primary Node

VM Affinity

VM Affinity

Pass-Through Disks

Raw Device Mapping

Core Parking

Distributed Power Management

Hyper-V Manager

VI Client

Windows Server Backup (WSB)

Consolidated Backup

Dynamic Disk

Thin Provisioning

Expand Disk/Volume

Volume/Extent Grow

VM IDE boot

VM SCSI

Hot Add Disks

Hot Add Disks

Integration Components

VMware Tools

Virtual Switch

Standard/Distributed Switch

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

vCenter

Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)

Dynamic Optimization (SCVMM 2012)

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Self Service Portal

Web Access

Quick Storage Migration

Storage vMotion

Templates

Templates

Clones

Full Clones

P2V / V2V

Converter

Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VSMT)

Update Manager

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Now we have a translator for VMWare. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2012
    Good Read!

  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2013
    Still can be explained  in detail.

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2013
    Thanks much appreciated!

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2014
    Thanks its helpful.

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2014
    gr8 tx!

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2014
    Does Hyper-V have an equivalent term to the VMware datastore?

  • Anonymous
    June 20, 2015
    Thanks!. Help full.