System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Καλησπέρα,
Επιτέλους μετά από την beta,του System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 ήρθε η λύτρωση για όσους ασχολούμαστε με το Hyper V.
H ανακοίνωση για την επίσημη κυκλοφορία του SCVMM 2008 ήρθε να ταρακουνήσει τα νερά στο χώρο του Virtualization Management του Hyper V και όχι μόνο.
Για να μην σας τα γράφω γιατί δεν με φτάνει ένα blog για όλα τα ωραία του SCVMM 2008 απλά δείτε εδώ να καταλάβετε την σπουδαιότητα της εφαρμογής αυτής.
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Hyper-V
is the next-generation hypervisor-based virtualization platform from
Microsoft, which is designed to offer high performance, enhanced
security, high availability, scalability, and many other improvements.
VMM is designed to take full advantage of these foundational benefits
through a powerful yet easy-to-use console that streamlines many of the
tasks necessary to manage virtualized infrastructure. Even better,
administrators can manage their traditional physical servers right
alongside their virtual resources through one unified console.
With
this release, VMM now manages VMware ESX virtualized infrastructure in
conjunction with the Virtual Center product. Now administrators running
multiple virtualization platforms can rely on one tool to manage
virtually everything. With its compatibility with VMware VI3 (through
Virtual Center), VMM now supports features such as VMotion and can also
provide VMM-specific features like Intelligent Placement to VMware
servers.
Performance
and Resource Optimization (PRO) enables the dynamic management of
virtual resources though Management Packs that are PRO enabled.
Utilizing the deep monitoring capabilities of System Center Operations
Manager 2007, PRO enables administrators to establish remedial actions
for VMM to execute if poor performance or pending hardware failures are
identified in hardware, operating systems, or applications. As an open
and extensible platform, PRO encourages partners to design custom
management packs that promote compatibility of their products and
solutions with PRO’s powerful management capabilities.
A
typical physical server in the datacenter operates at only 5 to 15
percent CPU capacity. VMM can assess and then consolidate suitable
server workloads onto virtual machine host infrastructure, thus freeing
up physical resources for repurposing or hardware retirement. Through
physical server consolidation, continued datacenter growth is less
constrained by space, electrical, and cooling requirements.
Converting
a physical machine to a virtual one can be a daunting undertaking—slow,
problematic, and typically requiring you to halt the physical server.
But thanks to the enhanced P2V conversion in VMM, P2V conversions will
become routine. Similarly, VMM also provides a straightforward wizard
that can convert VMware virtual machines to VHDs through an easy and
speedy Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) transfer process.
In
response to new server requests, a truly agile IT department delivers
new servers to its business clients anywhere in the network
infrastructure with a very quick turnaround. VMM enables this agility
by providing IT administrators with the ability to deploy virtual
machines in a fraction of the time it would take to deploy a physical
server. Through one console, VMM allows administrators to manage and
monitor virtual machines and hosts to ensure they are meeting the needs
of the corresponding business groups.
VMM
does extensive data analysis on a number of factors before recommending
which physical server should host a given virtual workload. This is
especially critical when administrators are determining how to place
several virtual workloads on the same host machine. With access to
historical data—provided by Operations Manager 2007—the Intelligent
Placement process is able to factor in past performance characteristics
to ensure the best possible match between the virtual machine and its
host hardware.
Virtual
infrastructures are commonly used in Test and Development environments,
where there is constant provisioning and tear down of virtual machines
for testing purposes. This latest version of VMM features a thoroughly
reworked and improved self-service Web portal, through which
administrators can delegate this provisioning role to authorized users
while maintaining precise control over the management of virtual
machines.
To
keep a data center’s virtual house in order, VMM provides a centralized
library to store various virtual machine “building blocks”—off-line
machines and other virtualization components. With the library’s
easy-to-use structured format, IT administrators can quickly find and
reuse specific components, thus remaining highly productive and
responsive to new server requests and modifications.
The
entire VMM application is built on the command-line and scripting
environment, Windows PowerShell. This version of VMM adds additional
PowerShell commandlets and “view script” controls, which allow
administrators to exploit customizing or automating operations at an
unprecedented level.
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