Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Posted
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:28 PM
by
sdeming
Q: (from Kevin)
This may be a fairly rudimentary question; but I wanted clarification: If I have Windows 2008 with Hyper-V, must I have SCVMM in order to administer my guest Oss?
What is the relationship between the two; and if it’s VMM is not necessary, what more would I get from it?
A:
No, the Hyper-V management tools provide a basic level of resource allocation, image loading, monitoring, etc.
SCVMM provides more advanced functionality like letting you enable end user VM provisioning, VM placement across multiple VM hosts, load balancing, VM to Physical conversion and back. SCVMM works with both Hyper-V and our traditional machine virtualization
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/scvmm/default.mspx