Working for VMware has always been filled with surprises since the first day I joined. I really believe we have one of the greatest engineering departments out there. I mean when your engineering team create a plugin that allow vCenter to Manager Hyper-V in their own spare time, it just get you really proud to work for such a company. Before I get into details about what is going on, I must thank our great engineering team for their super dedication.

VMware has finally released its Hyper-V management tool as a “fling” (unsupported vCenter Plug in, personal projects built by VMware Engineers in their spare time), now available at:

http://labs.vmware.com/flings/xvp

Here is what our Engineering Team have to say about it:

VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. It also simplifies and enables easy migrations of virtual machines from non-vSphere virtualization platforms to VMware vSphere.

Features

• Management of the following Microsoft Hyper-V platforms:
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) with Hyper-V role enabled
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V role enabled
• Familiar vCenter Server graphical user interface for navigating through and managing non-vSphere inventory
• Ease of virtual machine migrations from non-vSphere hosts to vSphere inventory (Great
• Compatible with VMware vCenter Server 4.0 & 4.1
• Scalable up to management of 50 non-vSphere hosts

Again much more info & videos can be found at:  http://labs.vmware.com/flings/xvp

Do you think this should be a supported feature? What do u think of this plugin? Leave your opinion in the comments below.