Manage Hyper-V from vSphere with VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

VMware released the first version (1.0) of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager (MHM). MHM makes it possible to manage multiple heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter server.

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MHM supports only Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008  and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2  as hypervisor! MHM requires vCenter Server 5.1 and can manage 20 Hyper-V hosts with up to 500 VMs running.

As minimum vCenter Server Standard edition is needed. The vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager is not available with the vCenter Server Foundation or Essentials edition!

The installation of MHM consist of two components:

  • vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager Server
  • vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager Plug-In

After the installation of the plug-In it appears in the inventory tab of the vSphere Client. The MHM Plug-in s not compatible with the vSphere Web Client.

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The following tasks can be performed by MHM:

  • Third-party host management including add, remove, connect, disconnect and view the host configuration.
  • Ability to provision virtual machines on third-party hosts.
  • Ability to edit virtual machine settings.
  • Integrated vCenter Server authorization mechanism across ESX 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.
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Conclusion

Before MHM VMware released vCenter XVP Manager and Converter as Fling in 2011. The fling can be found here . MHM is not changed that much from vCenter XVP Manager and Converter. MHM  has no support for Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V or Hyper-V 3.0  and the tasks that you can perform on Hyper-V are limited.

Some suggestions for the next release:

  • Support for Hyper-V 3.0
  • Ability to perform a live migration
  • Console access to the VM
  • Hyper-V to VMware migration (V2V)
  • Update integration components