Heterogeneous VM Management

As evident with Microsoft’s continued investment in virtualization technologies, it is almost a given that Hyper-V virtualization will be leveraged by IT departments. However, a large number of companies have already invested in VMware virtualization, using VMware ESX server and proprietary VMware VirtualCenter for management. Adding Hyper-V to the virtual landscape can increase the complexity and time required to manage the physical and virtual infrastructure for these companies. Thankfully, Microsoft designed VMM to be a heterogeneous management system that reduces the complexity of managing different physical and virtual systems in the enterprise by providing the ability to manage the following host systems:

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