Getting Started

1. About Virtual Machine Manager 2008

• What's New
  
  
• Product Overview
  
  

2. Get Virtual Machine Manager 2008

• System Requirements
  
  
• Get the Trial Software
  
  

3. Install and Learn Virtual Machine Manager 2008

• Migrating to VMM 2008
  
  
• VMM Learning Catalog
  
  
• Decision Flowchart

Featured Resources

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RC now available The RC release of VMM 2008 R2 adds capabilities such as Quick Storage Migration (migrate storage of a running VM with minimal downtime) and Queuing of Live Migrations (when multiple Live Migrations are requested to or from a specific host). VMM 2008 R2 is a comprehensive, centralized, multi-platform management solution for virtualized infrastructure.

TechNet Edge video: How does VMM 2008 compare with VMware? Dai Vu starts off by giving some compete information on Hyper-V versus VMware ESX and then gets more specific with comparing the latest version of System Center Virtualization Machine Manger 2008 (SCVMM) with VMware’s VirtualCenter (vCenter).

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is released to manufacturing The management solution for the virtualized datacenter, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 carries forward the full feature set of its predecessor and offers new functionality such as cross-platform support, Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO), and enhanced, yet simplified, High Availability (HA) capabilities, among others. Try it out for yourself for free-- download and test drive a fully featured evaluation version of VMM 2008 for 180 days.

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Blogs from the System Center Virtual Machine Manager team

The following are recent blogs posted by the VMM team:

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