Being a long time VMWare customer (since ESX 2.5.3), I am very unimpressed with SCVMM. I like the idea of the Hyper-V platform and the innovation and stability of the platform over the past iterations has been impressive. I personally feel that the latest
release in 2012 R2 is enterprise ready.
With that being said, a central management product is critical to the success of the platform for us larger sized companies. And frankly, I feel the stability and maturity of the SCVMM product is simply not there, and I have a hard time understanding why this
is. If Microsoft is adamant about trying to capture existing VMWare customers, and solidify their standing in the virtual space, how do they expect administrators to react, when they are forced to use SCVMM as the brains of the system? We are running
a 4 node windows 2012 hyper-v cluster in our lab environment to take advantage of self-provisioning (roughly 80 vm's). However my experience has shown that in order to manage a large scale hyper-v environment, I am still forced to jump between scvmm, hyper-v
manager, and failover cluster. This is tedious and unnecessary.
The scvmm team needs to take a queue from VMWare's vCenter team and develop a centrally managed administration console that can do EVERYTHING, reliably.
Our environment consists of over 750 vm's currently running across 16 esx hosts. We have been seriously considering migrating to HV 2012 R2 as part of a refresh, however I cannot comfortably do so, seeing how SCVMM has behaved in our environment.
So with that all said, I know I didn't touch on the weak areas, because most of have already been brought up here in the past. But when is SCVMM going to take a serious stance on providing an appropriate management solution that is enterprise class?