SCVMM 2008 has limitations on what it can manage - so you'll still be breaking out the VMware tools to manage your VMWare side. Dunno about SCVMM 2012
Cheers Ken From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 2:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! System Center Virtual Machine Manager can manage both your VMWare and Hyper-V hosts... * http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh546770.aspx * http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610610.aspx And there are backup solutions which are pointed at your HyperV host and will backup all the guests, yes. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I didn't think you could point Veeam (or whatever HyperV aware backup app you're using) to a single entity like you can vCenter and have it backup every VM that's in your cluster? If you can that's great to know as I always wondered how it coped with doing incremental backups of a VM when it's been moved between hosts if it addresses each host individually. On the domain point, so can you have several Hyper-V hosts that aren't domain members but still manage them as a single entity/cluster? Basically what's the Hyper-V equivalent of a vCenter server? Like I said I haven't used it but I thought those were both things about it that didn't seem quite as "polished" as VMware? ________________________________ From: Andrew S. Baker [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 16 April 2012 4:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! >> Single "thing" to point backups at - I believe you have to backup Hyper-V >> boxes individually? No, you don't have to back them up individually. Lots of 3rd party options here. >> No dependency on the domain being present which can put you in a "fun" >> situation if you have to power everything off and on again. Your Hyper-V server need not be a domain member. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
