New integrated UI for Hyper-V
It's one of the most important area where you must working on. We need a new UI for Hyper-V, in particular a new UI with cluster management integrated and also with more functionality, like Performance View and PowerShell history.
Silvio Di Benedetto
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In process, via Windows Admin Center.
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36 comments
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Andy Atkinson [MSFT]
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Thank you all for the feedback and conversation here. Although we have no immediate plans for a new Hyper-V UI with cluster management, we appreciate the feedback and will take it into consideration.
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raowyn
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I got here from <https://www.petri.com/hyper-v-biggest-weakness> and I laughed out loud reading the comment about "more time spent troubleshooting VMM than managing Hyper-V" which has 100% been my experience.
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Hero of Fish
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Amen. Long time Enterprize Hyper-V admin, seriously thinking of moving to VMware due to management limitations.
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Anil
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I totally agree with you
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Anonymous
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SCVMM is way too complex for most users. I have only seen about 5 companies using it to its full potential. Hyper-V is way to clunky, too many management points as Finns article implies. Yes there should be a vCenter like management tool for Hyper-V. Meaning that VMware has taught most admins to administrate their clusters from vCenter server and not to go to the VIC and administrate directly from each node. SCVMM is a total mess, always has been. Having to refresh and wait! I just do not have time for that to be honest. The escalation point to SCVMM has always been hit or miss as well if you have to create an escalation. I don't know, you want to beat VMware, simplify!
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Geoffrey
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I totally agree with you.
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SU
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This improved console should also support much more granular permissions than are available in scvmm. Look to vcenter as an example of how to do this right.
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Yoa
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FCM+HVM = HyperV Admin Center
My Wish List For it
-Coherent with the graphical languaje of server manager and AD admin Center
-With PowerShell History
-Perfomance View (Total Resources used and per Vm)
-Enhaceed VM connect (Something like RDCmanager)
-Full Cluster Management (No more trips back and fort)
-A notes field that we coul actually use !!!! (instead of change "#CLUSTER-INVARIANT#:{ef6ab0dd-515f-4ea5-aafd-dc8dab97c23c}" and thing willl borke) -
ussantos
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Install Windows Server Core + Hyper-V on physical machines and SCVMM to administer them.
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Anonymous
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And integrate a simple way to create templates and provision VMs from these templates. If you bring template provisioning without the need of expensive and complicate SCVMM you can run VMware down.
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Thomas Rhoads
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One of the biggest complaints we have with Hyper-V right now is the disparate management points which can sometimes cause issues (junior administrators going to hyper-v manager instead of FCS or SCVMM). Fix this and you will win a good bit of business over from VMware, most likely.
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Anonymous
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I totally agree
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John Carew
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I have been able to do ALL of my management within VMM for all 18 clustered hosts. Can you explain in better detail what you are having to use in Hyper-V Manager that is not in VMM?
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AkiraX
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As for troubleshooting the management tools, I have a couple of sev B cases open right now that show the weaknesses of the SCVMM console. I had a 3rd Sev B whose resolution was wait till the next version of SCVMM. I am running 2012R2CU6/latest greatest.
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AkiraX
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Could not have said this better. Actually, I've been saying this before most even realized....
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Alvaro
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^^THIS ... Hyper-V Manager and Fail-Over Cluster Manager seems so redundant (also inconsistent, sometimes i have to manage HA Vms and normal VMs). Add SCVMM and Powershell to the inconsistency.
What woul be great would be a SINGLE POINT OF MANAGEMENT of all of the VMs (High Available and otherwise) ... maybe something powershell based (as AD Admin Center), touch and KB friendly (RDP from tablet or phone), and simple to use (yet powerfull if we get to the advanced settings)..
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Jacob Benson
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Please for the love of god make this happen. It is the only thing holding us back from adopting Hyper-V for all of our customer deployments.
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Pl
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Spot on
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Chris Rogers
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Agreed
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justin
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Better management tools. single pane since point management.