Specifications

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Figure 11. Virtual Machine Manager handles both ESX and Hyper-V servers.
Managed servers are listed in the Host Groups pane on the left side of the screen. In this pane, the
virtual servers are grouped by Development and Production roles, and include both Hyper-V servers
and a VMware ESX server cluster named ESX35-Cluster running two ESX server systems. You can
see the details of the each managed server in the Production group in the Virtual Machines pane
shown in the middle of the screen.
This pane also shows the status of all VMs running, including the allocated memory and guest
operating system. When you select each different VM, the console and addition details appear in the
Details pane at the bottom of the screen.
VMware’s VirtualCenter Server is required to manage VMware ESX servers using VMM. To add a new
VirtualCenter Server to VMM’s console, select the Add VMware VirtualCenter Server option from the
VMM section of the Actions pane shown on the far right portion of the screen. This will display the Add
VMware VirtualCenter Server dialog shown in Figure 12.