TechEd 2008 Keynote Demos SCVMM Management of ESX Cluster
June 10th, 2008 | 
Author: Scott Lowe is live blogging from TechED 2008 in Orlando, FL this week, and his Tech-Ed 2008 Keynote Liveblog post from this morning’s opening Keynote reports on some interesting cross virtualization vendor management capability of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). I’ve blogged previously about how I believe the future virtual data center will a combination of ESX, XenServer, and Hyper-V hosts, so the idea of a single managment server for all platforms is very exciting.
Read all of Scott’s post at the link above, but here’s a few quotes that give a good overview of how the demo worked:
“At this point, Rakesh Malhotra comes on the screen to show off using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to manage Hyper-V, Virtual Server, and VMware ESX. Rakesh launches the VI Client to show that there is a three-node ESX cluster. Flipping over to SCVMM, Rakesh showed that the same ESX cluster shows up side-by-side with a Hyper-V cluster.”
“In the next part of the demo, Rakesh uses SCVMM to perform a VMotion operation on the ESX cluster. Here, at least, Rakesh alludes to the fact that VMotion provides no downtime to the user, whereas Quick Migration does not. Bob chimes in to remind users that live migration will be added to a future version of Hyper-V.”
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