System Center Virtual Machine Manager

This post is a follow on to my Free HyperV Monitoring Tool post where I showed you a free but limited HyperV tool for monitoring your HyperV environment, in this post I will look at Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and show some of the benefits for managing your HyperV install with this management tool.

At Twynham we now have 2 HyperV farms one on our domain and another is for a SharePoint deployment we are hosting for the Dorset Local authority (but more about that later) for our domain SCVMM has many benefits one of the biggest being the ability to create P2V (Physical to Virtual) snapshots of our production servers SCVMM has proved an invaluable tool that we have used a great deal to help on the road to a virtualized environment.

The illustration above gives you an administration view of your HyperV deployment this report gives you a pie chart view of your hosts, Virtual Machines, Recent Jobs and library resources

I think the biggest win with SCVMM is the ability to control all of your HyperV servers from one interface for example we have been working on a customer’s site this week and they have 5 sites one with a 4 server failover cluster and 2 other sites with single HyperV servers running a number of virtual servers. Through SCVMM this brings the management of all these virtual servers into one interface simple to use interface for more details check out the SCVMM website.

Dave

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