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By: Microsoft employee caught leaving deceptive comments on blog | VCritical

Microsoft employee caught leaving deceptive comments on blog | VCritical — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:17:37 +0000

[...] read about how the demand for multi-hypervisor management via SCVMM 2008 was supposedly strong. I proposed that if there are so many people enjoying VMware VI3 management via SCVMM, surely someone would [...]

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:49:49 +0000

John, that is an excellent question, especially considering the lack of Linux guest tool functionality.

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:19:53 +0000

Would like to know just how many Linux virtual machines are in these oh-so-many SCVMM environments. I’m betting on oh-so-few.

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:37:30 +0000

Fred, thanks for the input. Would you mind expanding a bit on your environment? For example, about how many hosts are you managing and are they mostly Hyper-V?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:09:21 +0000

Hopefully by next year, we’ll be almost 100% virtualized, and even if we wouldn’t be, SCVMM does not have a home in my datacenter.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:05:00 +0000

I am using SCVMM to manage ESX. It is actually cool to see both environments in a single console. Plus, since I will never be 100% virtualized (or at least in the next 3 years), I like Microsoft’s management story. The ability to manage both phyiscal and virtual workloads using Operations Manager is very nice and my management loves it.

By: Episode 3 on “FUD on the hypervisor management” « UP2V

Episode 3 on “FUD on the hypervisor management” « UP2V — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:05:19 +0000

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