Multi-Hypervisor and Cloud Management Solutions

Grazed from WindowsITPro. Author: Michael Otay.

Back in November of 2012, I looked at some of the multiple hypervisor solutions that were available from Microsoft and VMware, as well as a few third party products. A lot has been happening in this area since then. More organizations are continuing to adopt multiple hypervisor platforms, plus there’s been continued uptake in cloud services, especially in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings like you see in Amazon’s EC2. A couple of notable new products in this space include VMware’s Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0 for vSphere and HotLink’s Hybrid Express cloud and virtualization management product.

VMware Multi-Hypervisor Manager

VMware’s Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a part of vSphere 5.1 (and higher) Standard edition. Multi-Hypervisor Manager essentially replaces the older VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter. Multi-Hypervisor Manager enables the management of Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Hyper-V from VMware’s Infrastructure Client. Notably, this first release doesn’t support the new vSphere Web Client, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, or Citrix’s XenServer virtualization…

The new Multi-Hypervisor Manager has a server component that installs on the vCenter Server and a client component that plugs into the vSphere Infrastructure Client. The server component connects directly to the Hyper-V server and there’s no need for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The Multi-Hypervisor Manager supports basic management functions like creating and deleting VM’s as well as power/state management…

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