No other virtualization platform vendor provides the breadth of VMware’s virtualization management solutions with production-proven technology. Only VMware offers a comprehensive solution for management of the virtual infrastructure over the entire lifecycle of the virtual machine. Best of all, VMware's management solutions integrate with your existing systems management tools so you can use what you already have and get a single point of control for physical and virtual machine management.
With VMware management solutions, you can:
- Centrally manage thousands of virtual machines
- Manage the entire software lifecycle with VMware solutions
- Automate disaster recovery
- Automate patching of virtual machines and hosts
- Use your existing systems management tools
- Get full support for all VMware vSphere features
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Microsoft System Center Provides Incomplete VMware Infrastructure Support
To fully benefit from the power of VMware vSphere, you’ll want to manage it using vCenter and the rich VMware vSphere Client. Only by using the VMware vSphere VI Client are you ensured that all the features of vCenter are made available and settings are properly configured. It has been found that some third-party management tools, like Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), lack support for critical VMware vSphere features, or worse, their use results in damaged VMware vSphere configurations. These videos show some of the more serious problems caused when SCVMM is used to manage VMware vSphere.
SCVMM Destroys VMware vSphere Templates During Import
Use caution when experimenting with the SCVMM capability to import templates. SCVMM will try to establish a foothold in your management environment by deleting the original templates from ESX datastores.
SCVMM Provisioning Defaults Unsuitable for VMware ESX Virtual Machines
Microsoft advertises the ability to provision new VMware ESX virtual machines with SCVMM. In reality, SCVMM ignores advanced ESX capabilities and hypervisor platform differences, so the VMs it creates require numerous manual configuration adjustments to make them compatible with ESX.
SCVMM Removes ESX VMs from Resource Pools During VMotion
Since SCVMM offers no visibility into VMware ESX resource pools, initiating migration with VMotion removes a VM from its resource pool. This behavior wipes out resource partitioning and permissions previously configured by VMware administrators.
SCVMM Imposes Artificial Constraints on VMware Infrastructure 3 Resources
SCVMM prevents migration and cloning of virtual machines that vCenter would otherwise allow. Managing VMware Infrastructure 3 with SCVMM compromises powerful features that make VMware ESX the more efficient virtualization platform.
SCVMM Creates Unnecessary Port Groups on ESX vSwitches
When managing VMware ESX virtual machine networks, SCVMM exposes both vSwitches and port groups. SCVMM allows administrators to inadvertently create new port groups on every ESX vSwitch in the environment—duplicating existing functionality and increasing management costs and complexity.
