{"id":10351,"date":"2010-02-04T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10351"},"modified":"2010-02-04T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:01:00","slug":"vmm-2008-r2-supported-vmware-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10351","title":{"rendered":"VMM 2008 R2 Supported VMware Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t have any VMware hosts to manage but I wanted to know what ones are supported by Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.&#160; Finding that information wasn\u2019t so quick and easy.&#160; The supported hosts are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware ESX Server 3.5<\/li>\n<li>VMware ESX Server 3.0.2<\/li>\n<li>VMware ESX Server 3i<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of the official sites I\u2019ve seen mention vSphere 4.0.&#160; However, it has been said by Microsoft people (and quoted by the online press) that any functionality that works with earlier editions will work in vSphere 4.&#160; New functionality does not yet work.<\/p>\n<p>VMM 2008 R2 adds something that VMM 2008 didn\u2019t have; that is the ability to use VMware port groups.<\/p>\n<p>As my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pyshcheque\" target=\"_blank\">friend<\/a> Monika recently tweeted, VMM is <em>\u201cOne Console to rule them all, One to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie\u201d.&#160; <\/em>VMM gives you to manage other virtualisation managers.&#160; You can manage many VMware managers.&#160; The listed ones are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware VirtualCenter 2.5<\/li>\n<li>VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> That allows you to use VMM as your central point for day to day operations.&#160; And if you\u2019re tempted, you can even <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10344\" target=\"_blank\">migrate your virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V or Virtual Server<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t have any VMware hosts to manage but I wanted to know what ones are supported by Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.&#160; Finding that information wasn\u2019t so quick and easy.&#160; The supported hosts are: VMware ESX Server 3.5 VMware ESX Server 3.0.2 VMware ESX Server 3i None of the official sites I\u2019ve seen mention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMM 2008 R2 Supported VMware Hosts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}