Guess what? VMware manages Hyper-V! ( just as a fling though)

From VMware Labs, VMware’s playground, comes VMware vCenter XVP. And guess what? It manages Hyper-V. Didn’t we hear VMware say that this would never happen?

VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. It also simplifies and enables easy migrations of virtual machines from non-vSphere virtualization platforms to VMware vSphere. These are the features:

• Management of the following Microsoft Hyper-V platforms:
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) with Hyper-V role enabled
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V role enabled
• Familiar vCenter Server graphical user interface for navigating through and managing non-vSphere inventory
• Ease of virtual machine migrations from non-vSphere hosts to vSphere inventory
• Compatible with VMware vCenter Server 4.0 & 4.1
• Scalable up to management of 50 non-vSphere hosts

Source: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/xvp

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