Wiebe i’ve got the beta bits!!!!!, before I left for MMS my colleague heard about the possibilities to manage virtual environments like ESX, Virtual Server and hyper-V with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and he spammed me like crazy to get the beta bits at MMS. The search wasn’t that hard, when I attended the introduction to Vitalization VNext session they where handing the beta out and I got an extra copy for Wiebe.
For starters here is a summary of the Server 2008 Hyper-V features:
- Extendable guest support
- Multi processor (up to 4)
- Large Memory (64 GB)
- 64-bit support
- Virtual Switch support with VLAN
- Quick migration with intelligent placement
- WMI interface
- Support for XEN -enabled Linux guests
Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has the same look and feel as the VMM 2007 but under the hood the are some technical improvements. Microsoft made it possible to discover and connect to your VMWare ESX environment. With this connection you can, almost, completely manage your ESX environment. Vmotion to move server to an other ESX server with intelligent placement. Live migrating from Virtual Server 2005 to Hyper-V Host Cluster. These options are supported for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. There is the possibilities of migrating Windows 2000 but this only can be done offline so no live migration there. The support for Windows XP and Vista makes a full VDI solution only near future.
The intelligent placement of server is based on CPU, memory, disk I/O and network availability this data is collected from the host machines to give the star rating. So why isn’t this data available in the SCOM 2007 environment? We will see what the future will bring!
The overall architecture of VMM 2008 has the most added value when integrated with Operations manager 2007 and the knowledge driven way they work together where the pro tips are a real cool feature. Microsoft is currently working hard with a lot of third party venders to extend this to feature and make hardware and (virtual)software tips really get the best out of your environment.
Pro tips noticed by Operations Manager 2007 and integrated in VMM 2008:
In my previous article about SCSM I described the integration of the Service Manager database with the OpsMgr database, just imagine what the will happen when de Configurations Manager database will join this integration and the pro tip will advice you for desired state or and updates where the performance will be increased. It just a look in the possible future.
Regards,
Walter Eikenboom
http://weblogwally.spaces.live.com
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Woohoo thank you Walter!
When are you in Zoetermeer and when can we play with these toys?
awesome man.