Redmond reveals Hyper-V 2016 beats vSphere's RAM and CPU count Microsoft has revealed the scale at which Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 will operate at release and in so doing has leapfrogged VMware's scalability on headline-grabbing numbers. Microsoft's spelled out its scale here and we've referred to VMware's Configuration Maximums vSphere 6.0 (PDF) document for Virtzilla's numbers. …
The limits are mostly theoretical today, because pretty much no one is selling servers that would hit the limits of either Hyper-V or vSphere. By the time they do, both will have been updated.
I wonder how they even tested this...must have been on an Altix, but I can't imagine anyone would buy one of those to host VMs...
"The limits are mostly theoretical today,"
Quite - bragging rights - not serious a consideration for the vast majority of users.
Of more interest to me - Hyper-V historically has outperformed VMware on the same hardware for performance (IOPS) - so what is the relative performance like these days - have Microsoft extended their lead - or have VMware caught up - anyone published any benchmarks as yet?
I see Dell has a 12TB system, HP has a 6TB system (expected their 8 socket box to go higher but it tops out at 4TB). Only x86 system I could think of that may go higher is SGI UV (though officially apparently only supports a couple variants of linux).
All of my vSphere systems are 384GB, not too excited about going far beyond that still right now. Though I'm not running something like SAP HANA either.
Probably just bought one of these
https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B-TR4FT.cfm
My new homebrew hypervisor that I built out of some Cobol, Fortran and Pascal code, some stickyback plastic and a Blue Peter badge is able to use 8000 squillion, billion, trillion, hundred of the new gvCPU's and 400 Trillion TB's of nvrRAM (What do you mean you dont know what that is?)
And those figures are totally as relevant as the ones mentioned in this story.
I recently worked for a big data company that squished numbers for some very large companies. They didn't get close to troubling VMWare's current maximum numbers let alone the new ones.
"......And those figures are totally as relevant as the ones mentioned in this story....." Many years ago I had a very, very direct South African as a boss, and he was famous for shutting down irrelevant sales pitches. We used to go into sales meetings just hoping a vendor rep would say something to set him off! I expect anyone touting the similarly irrelevant new Hyper-V brag figures would leave with their ears burning.
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