Gahanna, OH — VT Technology, a developer of popular management tools for Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced the availability of VT Technology Management Utilities for Hyper-V (vtUtilities) version 3.2. vtUtilities are designed as a cost effective management and diagnostic toolkit for Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 Core installations as well as on the free Hyper-V Server. New version of vtUtilities adds functionality to simplify Hyper-V management on environments utilizing Microsoft Failover Clustering for high availability.
Key Features:
Local GUI to Manage Hyper-V on Server Core and Free Hyper-V Server — Manage virtual machines, virtual hard disks and networks without remote management via the Microsoft Hyper-V Manager or Virtual Machine Manager Server. vtUtilities offer a simple and easy to use GUI that is familiar to most Windows users. In addition, vtUtilities further simplify the administration tasks on Windows Server core installations and free Hyper-V Server by providing a user interface for file system views and operations.
Hyper-V Clustering is supported on Windows and Hyper-V Servers 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 and includes visualization of cluster summary information and events, cluster nodes management, virtual machines cluster role configuration, management and migration as well as Hyper-V Replica Broker configuration and management.
Manage Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2008 from a Single Environment — vtUtilities support management of Hyper-V on hosts running Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2, as well as Windows Server 2008 R2. vtUtilities provide full support of new features introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2 for hosts running the new version of Hyper-V, including:
- Generation 2 virtual machines.
- Virtual hard disk and storage quality of service enhancements.
- Hyper-V Replica enhancements including support for extended replication.
- Hyper-V virtual networking enhancements.
vtUtilities are certified for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 as well as listed in Windows Server Catalog.
Virtual Network Management — vtUtilities provide comprehensive virtual network management including management of virtual connections and bindings. vtUtilities can be used to troubleshoot and fix network connections and related problems that cannot be resolved via remote management. vtUtilities Virtual Network Manager also allows management of virtual network ports used by the virtual network interfaces and virtual machines.
Maximize Virtualization Infrastructure Performance — vtUtilities provide an intuitive and simple to use monitoring functionality that is helpful for determining whether all parts of the virtualization infrastructure are running properly. Even so, vtUtilities have a small memory footprint and do not consume any resources on managed Hyper-V servers when vtUtilities are not running.
About VT Technology Inc.
VT Technology Inc. is a U.S. software development company specializing in the development of cost effective solutions for the Windows platform.
vtUtilities, the VT Technology popular virtualization management software, unlocks the Microsoft Hyper-V platform functionality for the SMB customers and system integrators. Additional information is available at
http://vttechnology.com
