Managing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with HP Insight Software, integration note, 4th edition

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Function Hyper-V R2 VMware ESX
Insight Control server migration:
Physical-to-virtual migrations Yes Yes
Virtual-to-ProLiant migrations Yes Yes
Virtual-to-virtual migrations Yes Yes
Matrix Operating Environment – Logical Servers:
Copy move Yes Yes
Quick move Yes Not applicable
SAN move Yes, requires a Hyper-V R2
Cluster Shared Volume (CSV)
Cluster
Yes
Live move Yes, requires a Hyper-V R2
CSV Cluster
Yes
Matrix Operating Environment—Matrix capacity planning:
Collect and view historical performance
data
Yes Yes
Configure utilization limits for VM hosts
and guests
Yes Yes
Matrix capacity planning scenarios Yes Yes
Matrix capacity planning reports Yes Yes
Matrix Operating Environment—Unified control:
Discover networked, booted VMs Requires configuration:
To discover VMs and clusters,
add the IP addresses for
virtual machines and cluster
aliases to the HP Systems
Insight Manager (HP SIM)
discovery task.
Automatic
Discover clusters Requires configuration:
To VMs and clusters, add the
IP addresses for virtual
machines and cluster aliases
to the HP SIM discovery task.
Automatic
Visualize clusters Yes Yes
Visualize performance Yes Yes
Drag and drop VMs Yes Yes
Matrix infrastructure orchestration:
Visual design Yes Yes
Automatically provision Yes Yes