To simplify the management of virtual environments that have VMware ESX or ESXi hosts and third-party hypervisors such as Microsoft Hyper-V, you can connect your third-party hypervisors to a vCenter Server System by using venter Multi-Hypervisor Manager. After you connect both your VMware and third-party hypervisors to vCenter Server, you can use the vSphere Client to manage your entire virtual environment.The vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 supports the management of Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors in vCenter Server. From the third-party hosts inventory of the vSphere Client, you can view the Hyper-V hosts configuration, and perform management tasks such as power off, reboot, disconnect, reconnect, and remove the host from the third-party hosts inventory.
For maintenance purposes, extended management options, or improved performance, you can convert a virtual machine from a third-party host to an ESX or ESXi host in your vCenter Server system. To perform virtual machine conversions with venter Multi-Hypervisor Manager in the vSphere Client, you need to have configured a vCenter Converter Standalone server during the installation of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager server.
After you install and configure venter Multi-Hypervisor Manager for virtual machine conversions, you can use the vSphere Client to hot clone virtual machines from the third-party hosts inventory tree to an ESX or ESXi host in your vCenter Server system. venter Multi-Hypervisor Manager does not provide a built-in conversion feature but exposes the conversion capabilities of vCenter Converter Standalone in the vSphere Client.
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 (beta)
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 (beta)
