Adding VMware vCenter Server to VMM

In order to manage VMware hosts, you need to integrate VMM with any existing VMware vCenter Server. VMM supports the VMware vCenter Server virtualization management software for managing hosts.

The features that are supported when VMM manages ESX/ESXi hosts are as follows:

Functionalities supported by VMM

Notes

Private clouds

The ESX/ESXi host resources are available to a VMM private cloud when creating the private cloud from host groups with ESX/ESXi hosts or from a VMware resource pool.

VMM does not support or integrate with VMware vCloud.

Dynamic Optimization

The new VMM Dynamic Optimization features can be used with ESX hosts.

Power Optimization

For this functionality, the Dynamic Optimization feature ...

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