FreeBSD is now officially supported by Microsoft in Hyper-V. In order to achieve this Microsoft collaborated with NetApp and Citrix. Here is the official announcement at Microsoft blog.
Category: Virtualization
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages – Microsoft vs. VMware
More than a dozen videos were released at Technet site related to Hyper-V and System Center 2012. These videos are 4 courses part of Microsoft Virtual Academy. All these videos compare Microsoft Technologies against VMware’s. Even though these videos are created by Microsoft they show very accurate the difference between the technologies that are compared. We can see that how Microsoft is turning from follower to a leader in a lot of areas in the Virtualization and the Private Cloud. No further explanation is needed you can just watch the videos and make up your mind for the capabilities that both companies offer:
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 1) Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 2) Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 3) Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 4) Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 1) Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 2) Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 3) Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 4) Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part1) Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 2) Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 3) Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 4) Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 1) Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 2) Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 3) Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 4) Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 5) Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Part 6) Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Release Candidate Available for download
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter is part of Solution Accelerator tools. The release candiadate was just released for download on Microsoft Connect site. Here are the details about this version:
What is New in the Release Candidate?
In addition to the capabilities delivered as part of the Beta release, the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter release candidate:
- Converts and deploys virtual machines from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts running:
- Windows Server® 2012 Release Candidate
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Release Candidate
- Adds virtual network interface cards (NICs) to the converted virtual machine on Hyper-V.
- Configures dynamic memory on the converted virtual machine.
- Supports migration of virtual machines that are hosted on a vSphere cluster.
- Supports migration of virtual machines to a Hyper-V host that is part of a failover cluster.
- Enables Microsoft partners to cobrand the tool so that it incorporates their logos.
About This Solution Accelerator
The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) provides a Microsoft-supported, freely available, standalone solution for converting VMware virtual machines (VMs) and VMware virtual disks (VMDKs) to Hyper-V virtual machines and Hyper-V virtual hard disks (VHDs). MVMC supports converting virtual machines using the following guest operating systems:
- Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
System Requirements
The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter converts VMware virtual machines created with:
- VMware vSphere 4.1
- VMware vSphere 5.0
To virtual machines for:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Windows Server® 2012 Release Candidate
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Release Candidate
Details
The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter:
- Provides a quick, low-risk option for VMware customers to evaluate Hyper-V
- Converts the virtual disks and the VMware VMs configuration, such as memory, virtual processor, and other machine settings from the source
- Uninstalls the VMware tools on the source VM and installs the Hyper-V Integration Services as appropriate
- Includes an easy-to-use wizard-driven GUI simplifying VM conversion
- Supports offline conversions of VMware virtual hard disks (VMDK) to a Hyper-V based virtual hard disk file format (VHD)
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Includes a scriptable Command Line Interfaces (CLI) for performing machine conversion and offline disk conversion which integrates with datacenter automation workflows, such as those authored and executed within System Center Orchestrator. The command line can also be invoked through PowerShell.
Virtual Machine Manager Dashboards from the OpsMgr Unleashed team
The authors of System Center Operations Manager 2012 Unleashed book are offering free for download a dashboard for Virtual Machine Manager. The management pack offers dashboards as:
- VMM Guest Health
- VMM Guest Resources
- VMM Host Performance
- VMM Hosts and Guests
- VMM Performance
- VMM Server Service Level Objective
- VMM Summary Dashboard
Screenshots from the MP can bee found here and the MP itself can be downloaded from here.
VMM SQL Extravaganza Scripts
Here 21 SQL queries that you can run against VMM Database and get useful information. The scripts are kindly provided by Murat Demirkiran a Senior Virtualization Expert at Denizbank in Infrastructure & System Management Group.
- VMM SQL Extravaganza01 – General VM Information
- VMM SQL Extravaganza02 – General VM Information 2
- VMM SQL Extravaganza03 – General Host Information
- VMM SQL Extravaganza04 – Host VM Count
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 05 – Empty Hosts List
- VMM SQL Extravaganza06 – VMs Placement
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 07 – VMs Storage Placement
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 08 – Stopped VMS List
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 09 – VMs with Pass-Through Disk List
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 10 – Last 10 VM Creation
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 11 – Host VM Count below 10
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 12 – Host VM Count 10 and above 10
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 13 – Host VM Average
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 15 – VMs Addition Count
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 16 – Host VMM Agent Version Details
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 17 – VMs Operating System Count
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 18 – VMs Operating System Details
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 19 – Hosts Available Memory
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 20 – Yearly created VMs
- VMM SQL Extravaganza 21 – Monthly created VMs
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