Vmware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

Mai tineti minte cand MS se lauda ca ei au solutia cea mai tare si ca din SCVMM poti administra si Hyper-V si Vsphere? Ei bine, nu mai e de actualitate. De actualitate e vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager, o componenta ce se instaleaza peste vCenter si iti permite de administrezi Hyper-V din vCenter. How cool is that?

Key Capabilities

vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 introduces the following set of basic management capabilities over third-party hosts:

• Third-party host management including add, remove, connect, disconnect, and view the host configuration.
• Ability to migrate virtual machines from third-party hosts to ESX or ESXi hosts.
• Ability to provision virtual machines on third-party hosts.
• Ability to edit virtual machine settings.
• Integrated vCenter Server authorization mechanism across ESX/ESXi and third-party hosts inventories for privileges, roles, and users.
• Automatic discovery of pre-existing third-party virtual machines
• Ability to perform power operations with hosts and virtual machines.
• Ability to connect and disconnect DVD, CD-ROM, and floppy drives and images to install operating systems.

What’s New in Multi-Hypervisor Manager v1.1

The VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 is a minor release that introduces the following new capabilities:

• Migration of virtual machines from Hyper-V to ESX or ESXi hosts.
• Support for the latest Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor (as well as earlier Hyper-V versions).
• Increase in the number of supported third-party hosts to 50 from 20 in vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0.
• Ability to manage custom certificates for the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager server from the installer wizard.
• Ability to select multiple objects in the UI of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager plug-in and a number of other usability improvements.
• Ability to generate vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager log bundle from Windows Start menu.
• Bug fixes.

Cititi intregul post de pe vSphere Blog aici: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/04/did-you-know-vcenter-server-can-manage-multiple-hypervisors.html