When we sat down to record this episode we ended up in a situation like we did with our episode with Ben Armstrong, too much content for one episode! To those familiar with Hyper-V, this likely doesn’t come as a surprise being we’re discussing the various management tools that are available for Hyper-V, along with the overall management story for Microsoft’s hypervisor.

In this episode, we sit down with Eric Siron to discuss modern day usage of the traditional Hyper-V management tools which include:

• Hyper-V Manager
• Failover Cluster Manager
• PowerShell
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

In the next episode, we’ll focus on the new management tools for Hyper-V such as Windows Admin Center and Azure Arc.

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• How Azure Stack HCI is forcing changes in your datacenter

In this episode

• Hyper-V Management vs. VMware Management - 2:05
• An example of management assumptions for VMware admins trying Hyper-V - 8:43
• Networking woes in Windows Server - 12:12
• Why choice of tools is a strength of Hyper-V - 17:12
• Thoughts on System Center Virtual Machine Manager - 24:08
• An example of where VMM does NOT fit - 28:00

Resources for Hyper-V Management Tools

• Andy’s Hyper-V Datacenter Deployment Script
• Andy’s VMware Datacenter Deployment Script
• PowerShell Direct
• Ben Armstrong on Twitter
• Ben Armstrong as a Guest on the Sysadmin Dojo Podcast talking about Hyper-V
• Webinar on Azure Stack HCI