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DanBig
Asked: 2010-01-21 11:52:10 +0800 CST

Hyper-V management. RSAT or SCVMM?

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I have a relatively light duty Hyper-V server running 2 production servers and 3 dev servers. I've been using the RSAT with the Hyper-V role installed, and it seems to do just fine when it comes to managing the server's storage and VMs. I decided to setup a new machine and do some eval on SCVMM. Now that its up and running, I don't see any added value to it compared to RSAT on my Win7 box. Is it just not geared toward a small setup like mine, and really just meant for a much larger VM environment?

EDIT: Besides the ability to to P2V.

scvmm hyper-v-server-2008-r2

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    SCVMM is targeted at automating operations across many hosts. A single host, or even a handful of hosts, won't be enough to see much difference.

    And, by the way, if you're really dealing with only a few VMs, you'll probably get exactly what you want in P2V using disk2VHD. See this:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

    Just remember to change the storage driver set to include IDE/ATA before you take turn the disk into a VHD, or it won't boot within Hyper-V.

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