It would have been nice to move or copy an ESX VM to Hyper-V or vice versa, but that option is not offered here. (None of the other management tools can do this either, though.) We were able to clone ESX VMs onto the same VMware host and complete an ESX VM to ESX VM migration with local storage or an NFS share.

Using VMware's live VM migration utility, VMotion, migrations of live VMware ESX to ESX VM guests under SC-VMM's control worked quite well.

Whether the VMware VMs used Linux or Windows, the VMs were able to successfully migrate, although after a migration we found the VM was slow to connect to the viewer subsequently (and we had to close the VM viewer session and open a new one because it was on a different server).

SC-VMM's Operational Management

The first step toward achieving any form of daily operational management is being able to actually see the various VM platforms on the network. Under SC-VMM, getting to 'watch' the various VM hypervisor screens was possible, but the quality was not great.