System Center Virtual Machine Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) provides centralized administration of virtual machine infrastructure and enables increased physical server utilization and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and authorized end users.

Getting Started

1. About Virtual Machine Manager 2007

2. Get Virtual Machine Manager 2007

3. Install and Learn Virtual Machine Manager 2007

Featured Resources

Solution Accelerators for Virtualization
A wealth of free solution accelerators are available for Virtualization planning, delivery, operations and management.

Announcing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta
The latest version supports the managing of both Hyper-V and VMware virtual infrastructure. Additional functionality new to this version of VMM includes Performance and Resource Optimization (Pro), which dynamically tunes virtual infrastructure, simplified virtual host cluster support, and other improvements and enhancements.

Automating Software Updates for Offline Virtual Machines Using Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and Configuration Manager 2007
Download this white paper which provides guidance and script samples for integrating System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to provide automated software updates for virtual machines stored in a VMM library (offline).

Microsoft Announces Virtualization Strategy
Today, Microsoft outlined its strategy for bringing virtualization solutions to the marketplace through range of best-of-breed products, partnerships and initiatives. Virtualization is a key enabler of Dynamic IT, which harnesses the power of IT to make business more agile. By exploiting the benefits of virtualization, businesses can lower their costs, improve customer service and improve perfo... more

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Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:00:00 AM

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Tip of the Day

Tip about Checkpoints

You can get an overview of the features, capabilities, requirements, and deployment of VMM in the SCVMM Technical Library, including:

Checkpoints – Provides an overview of checkpoints for a virtual machine that allow you to restore the virtual machine to a previous state.
How to Create a Checkpoint - Provides a procedure for creating checkpoints.
How to Merge a Checkpoint - Provides a procedure for merging a checkpoint when you no longer need to restore a virtual machine to its state when the checkpoint was created.
How to Restore a Virtual Machine to a Checkpoint - Provides a procedure for restoring a virtual machine—including its guest operating system, application settings, and application data files—to its state when a checkpoint was created.

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