The 2 day virtual launch event had a similiar question and he answered with, SCVMM to manage your guests and vCenter to manage your hosts. Manage your guests as in deployments, patching etc.
I say this as a pass along. I am still gathering the hardware to build my own little 'private cloud' environment to see what it all looks like. I will say the demo looked pretty cool though. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]] > *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 > > ~ 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
