This section provides the minimum and recommended system requirements for installing and running System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 or VMM 2008 R2 in the following deployment scenarios:

• All VMM components installed on a single computer.
  
  
• Each VMM component installed on a separate computer.
  
  

In either scenario, you must add at least one virtual machine host and each virtual machine host must always be a separate physical computer.

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