System Center Virtual Machine Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Developer(s)	Microsoft Corporation
Stable release	SCVMM 2008 / September 2008
Operating system	Windows Server 2008
Platform	Windows Server 2008
Type	Virtual Server management
License	MS-EULA
Website	System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) forms part of Microsoft's System Center line of management and reporting tools, alongside previously established tools such as Microsoft Operations Manager and Microsoft Systems Management Server. SCVMM is designed for management of large numbers of Virtual Servers based on Microsoft Virtual Server and Hyper-V, and was released for enterprise customers in October 2007. A standalone version for small and medium business customers will be available in January 2008.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables increased physical server utilization by making possible simple and fast consolidation on virtual infrastructure. This is supported by consolidation candidate identification, fast Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration and intelligent workload placement based on performance data and user defined business policies. VMM enables rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and end users using a self-service provisioning tool. Finally, VMM provides the central management console to manage all the building blocks of a virtualized data center.

Its latest release was in September 2008 named Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

See also

• Windows Server System
• Microsoft System Center
• System Center Configuration Manager
• System Center Data Protection Manager
• System Center Operations Manager

External links

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager homepage
• Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, circa February 2007
• SystemCenterGuide.com hosted by a Microsoft MVP