vmware Labs has released vCenter XVP Manager and Converter, their first stab into management of non-VMware virtualized environments. vCenter XVP Manager allows you to use the vSphere Client to manage Hyper-V Server 2008 hosts and their associated virtual machines, it also allows you to easily migrate those Hyper-V based virtual machines into VMware virtual machines.

The installation is pretty simple, you first install a server piece that could very well be installed on your vCenter Server, then you install a XVP Manager Plug-in into your vSphere Client which is done via the vSphere Client Plug-in Manager.

This product is currently only listed as a vmware Labs Fling, which means that it is not guaranteed that it will continue beyond it’s 1.0 Technical Preview status, but if people like it and push vmware for this type of functionality we may very well see it embedded within the core vCenter Server product.

For more information and to download vmware vCenter XVP Manager check out the vmware Labs website.

Created on February 26, 2011 by Rick Scherer

Posted under Hyper-V, vCenter.

This blog has 543 views and 3 responses.

Tags: client, fling, hyper-v, labs, Microsoft, vcenter, VMware, vsphere, xvp, xvp manager

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

 Print This Post

I came across a nice flash video doing a side by side comparison of the Microsoft Hyper-V install and the VMware ESXi install.  The Hyper-V install was using the Windows 2008 Core version and the ESXi was a baremetal install.  The results are not that shocking.  You can view the video by clicking here.

Happy New Year!

Created on December 31, 2008 by Rick Scherer

Posted under ESXi 3.5 Tips, Hyper-V.

This blog has 3,632 views and no responses.

Tags: esxi, hyper-v, install

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

 Loading ...

 Print This Post

A very cool video was sent over to me by an employee of VMware, it shows in a demo of Hyper-V an application failure because Hyper-V did not check the CPU compatibility prior to migration.  The origin host had the SSE4.1 instruction set, the destination did not.  Once migrated the application failed and crashed.  Later in the demo it shows a vMotion attempt of the same style, the CPU compatibility checking done during the vMotion process denied it to complete.

See it for yourself: Click here to Launch

Created on December 16, 2008 by Rick Scherer

Posted under Good Reading, Hyper-V, VMware.

This blog has 1,388 views and no responses.

Tags: cpu, crash, esx, hyper-v, video, vmotion

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

 Print This Post

This morning when I came into work my twitter box was flooded and there was a lot of heat distributed across the virtualization blogging world.  This all started when this post was published on the Zero’s & One’s blog site.  Almost immediately Scott Lowe and Jason Boche posted their rebuttals, along with dozens of other comments on the initial posting and even more spread across Twitter… Now I would like to chime in.

Read More…

Created on December 15, 2008 by Rick Scherer

Posted under Good Reading, Hyper-V, VMware.

This blog has 2,600 views and 5 responses.

Tags: comparison, esx, esxi, hyper-v, VMware

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

 Print This Post