No other virtualization platform vendor provides the breadth of production-proven virtualization management solutions offered by VMware. Only VMware offers a comprehensive solution for management from the desktop to the datacenter to the public cloud. Best of all, VMware management solutions integrate with your existing system's management tools so you can use what you already have and get an integrated experience 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 system's management tools
- Get full support for all VMware vSphere features
- Automate operations management with integrated performance, capacity and configuration management
- Get actionable intelligence with patented analytics
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Microsoft System Center Provides Incomplete VMware vSphere 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 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, such as 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 vSphere datastores.
SCVMM Provisioning Defaults Unsuitable for VMware vSphere Virtual Machines
Microsoft advertises the ability to provision new VMware vSphere virtual machines with SCVMM. In reality, SCVMM ignores advanced vSphere capabilities and hypervisor platform differences, so the VMs it creates require numerous manual configuration adjustments to make them compatible with vSphere.
SCVMM Removes vSphere VMs from Resource Pools During vMotion
Since SCVMM offers no visibility into VMware vSphere 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 vSphere Resources
SCVMM prevents migration and cloning of virtual machines that vCenter would otherwise allow. Managing VMware vSphere with SCVMM compromises powerful features that make vSphere the more efficient virtualization platform.
SCVMM Creates Unnecessary Port Groups on vSphere vSwitches
When managing VMware vSphere virtual machine networks, SCVMM exposes both vSwitches and port groups. SCVMM allows administrators to inadvertently create new port groups on every vSphere vSwitch in the environment—duplicating existing functionality and increasing management costs and complexity.
SCVMM Displays Very Little VM and Guest OS Information
The vSphere Client presents useful information to VMware administrators, such as guest OS IP address and performance history. The SCVMM console does not offer any of this information, instead relying on integration with additional complex systems.
