VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a component that enables support for heterogeneous hypervisors in a VMware vCenter Server environment. It provides the following benefits to your virtual environment:
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* An integrated platform for managing VMware and third-party hypervisors from a single interface.
* A hypervisor choice for the different business units in your organization to accommodate their specific needs.
* No single hypervisor vendor lock-in.
When you add a third-party host to vCenter Server, all virtual machines that exist on the host are discovered automatically, and are added to the third-party hosts inventory.
The ability of vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager to migrate virtual machines from third-party hosts to ESX or ESXi hosts is implemented by exposing the capabilities of vCenter Converter Standalone in the vSphere Client. See VMware KB article 2048927<http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2048927> for information about dependency between vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager and vCenter Converter Standalone.
Key Capabilities
vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 introduces the following set of basic management capabilities over third-party hosts:
* Third-party host management including add, remove, connect, disconnect, and view the host configuration.
* Ability to migrate virtual machines from third-party hosts to ESX or ESXi hosts.
* Ability to provision virtual machines on third-party hosts.
* Ability to edit virtual machine settings.
* Integrated vCenter Server authorization mechanism across ESX/ESXi and third-party hosts inventories for privileges, roles, and users.
* Automatic discovery of pre-existing third-party virtual machines
* Ability to perform power operations with hosts and virtual machines.
* Ability to connect and disconnect DVD, CD-ROM, and floppy drives and images to install operating systems.
What's New in Multi-Hypervisor Manager v1.1
The VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 is a minor release that introduces the following new capabilities:
* Migration of virtual machines from Hyper-V to ESX or ESXi hosts.
* Support for the latest Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor (as well as earlier Hyper-V versions).
* Increase in the number of supported third-party hosts to 50 from 20 in vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0.
* Ability to manage custom certificates for the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager server from the installer wizard.
* Ability to select multiple objects in the UI of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager plug-in and a number of other usability improvements.
* Ability to generate vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager log bundle from Windows Start menu.
* Bug fixes.
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How to Obtain vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager
You can download vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager for vCenter Server from the Download VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 page here<http://www.vmware.com/go/download-vsphere>. Click View Download of a VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 and modules product line, and scroll to the bottom of the page. To use the latest migration feature of vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager, you need to download and install a supported version of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone from here<http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/get.html>.
blogs.vmware.com [X] <http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/04/did-you-know-vcenter-server-can-manage-multiple-hypervisors.html> |by Justin King on April 26, 2013
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