Single pa(i)n(e) of glass
Apr 7, 2009 Blogs
I’ve been playing around with Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2, and I am amazed at how Microsoft can praise their solution as having a single pane of glass, i.e. a single management interface.
After installing a couple of Hyper-V nodes and a physical Windows 2008 R2 x64 machine for AD and SCVMM, I started configuring the environment. I needed a grant total of seven tools to get it up and running:
- Installation Media (ISO) for both Hyper-V, Windows 2008 R2 and SCVMM R2
- HVConfig command prompt (possibly through Remote Desktop)
- iSCSICPL GUI (possibly through Remote Desktop)
- diskpart (possibly through Remote Desktop)
- Hyper-V Manager MMC
- Failover Cluster Manager
- SCVMM console
When comparing to VMware vSphere:
- Installation Media (ISO) for ESX, Windows 2008 and vCenter
- VIClient
Conclusion
So for a Microsoft virtualization platform, I need almost four (!) times more tools and panes of glass to configure even the simplest environment. How dare Microsoft even speak out the words ‘single pane of glass’? I say: myth busted.
April 7th, 2009 at 13:30
Pretty sure they meant to say “single vendor of glass” and not “single pane”.
April 7th, 2009 at 16:28
a single pane of ass is more like it…