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Kenon Owens over at the new VMware: Virtual Reality blog takes on check box marketing. If you call something a "resource pool" if it's really just a bulk configuration option? Is an initial placement of a VM the same as DRS? Or for that matter, is quick migration really the same as VMotion?

Link: Can I have the Check, Please? | VMware: Virtual Reality.

So as you can see, they are trying to marginalize our advances by saying their minimal features are equivalent to our feature rich and fully baked products. Take a look at the table below and see if their capabilities warrant a check.

	Citrix XenServer Enterprise	Microsoft Hyper-V	VMware Infrastructure 3
Continuous Optimization - Across Physical Host Machines	-	-	√
Optimized Initial Placement of Virtual Environments on Power On	√	√	√
Distributed Power Management	-	-	√
Aggregate Collections of Hardware Resources for	-	-	√
Create Child Pools for dynamic resource distribution	-	-	√
Multi-VM Resource Guarantees	-	-	√
Live Migration of Virtual Environments	√	-	√

To be honest, though, check marks aren't enough. If we were simply selling "Speeds and Feeds" you would see that we blow the competition away, but at VMware, we aren't creating features, we are providing solutions. We are helping customers  solve their real world problems that go way beyond server consolidation.