Managing VMware With SCVMM In Practice
Wednesday, 04 June 2008 by Michel Roth
A couple of months ago Micrsoft made the one of the most clear statements they have ever made about going after the marketshare of one of their competitors. THe competitor is VMware and the message was: we are going to manage your ESX servers better than Virtual Center does. Today we see the first details.

In an article by Cheng Wei is is explained how the integration of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) works with managing VMware hosts and how it is set up. Microsoft think that the key values that SCVMM 2008 brings is the ability to provide a "single-pane-of-glass" view into your virtualized environment. A single console to go to, a single view to manage your heterogeneous virtualized assets, a single tool to learn and use. I must say I really agree with Cheng on the using as little management tools as possible being a best practise.

Read Cheng's article on how the integration works here.  


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Comments (3)
written by Christoph Wegener, June 04, 2008
Michel,

Thanks for the post. SCVMM is definitely a highly anticipated extension to the System Center product line.
I believe that, beyond giving a "single-pane-of-glass" view to manage a virtualized environment, the overarching System Center product line also extends this integration of data center management tools to a lot more components of a data center.
It will be interesting to see how VRM from DynamicOps matches against SCVMM.
Someone care to write a short comparison of these two products??

Christoph Wegener
written by Justin Campbell, June 04, 2008
Practice
written by guest, June 05, 2008
FYI... The link currently points to the article originally posted by Rakesh (http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2008/01/11/why-we-decided-to-manage-vmware.aspx), and not the newer article by Cheng Wei. Assuming this was the intended article link...

http://blogs.technet.com/chengw/archive/2008/04/29/managing-vmware.aspx

Either way, still VERY interesting stuff!

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