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1. About Virtual Machine Manager 2008

2. Get Virtual Machine Manager 2008

3. Install and Learn Virtual Machine Manager 2008

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Architectural Roadmap for Deploying VMM 2008 R2
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guidelines for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Find help you need for addressing your infrastructure decisions.

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Tip of the Day

About Converting a Virtual Machine to a Virtual Machine

VMM 2008 allows you to copy existing VMware virtual machines and create Hyper-V or Virtual Server virtual machines through a process known as virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversion. Learn more about V2V conversions.

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Recent Downloads

Update to Offline Servicing Tool supports Windows Server 2008 R2
Monday, Nov 16

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Blogs from the System Center Virtual Machine Manager team

The following are recent blogs posted by the VMM team:

Hyper-V and Domain Controllers – Demo Tips and Tricks
Saturday, Nov 21 - Virtual PC Guy
Booting Hyper-V R2 off a USB stick
Wednesday, Nov 18 - Virtual PC Guy
Understanding High-End Video Performance Issues with Hyper-V
Tuesday, Nov 17 - Virtual PC Guy
KB976246 - Removing a VHD from a virtual machine in VMM 2008 R2 deletes the file on the Hyper-V server without warning
Monday, Nov 16 - jchornbe
New KB: KB976244 - Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 hotfix rollup package: November 10, 2009
Monday, Nov 16 - jchornbe

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Recent System Center Virtual Machine Manager Forum Posts

The following are recent posts in the Virtual Machine Manager forums:

How to make uppercase of the host names in SCVMM?
Wednesday, Nov 25 - yusufozturk
SCVMM shows multible VM of the same VM after the VM in question has been live migrated
Wednesday, Nov 25 - CasperDK
BITS TRAFFIC and SCVMM 2008 R2
Wednesday, Nov 25 - biginquebec
Offline P2V fails with Error 2921
Tuesday, Nov 24 - Jay Childers
Found a bug in SCVMM re: shared ISO attachment
Tuesday, Nov 24 - Marc Medina

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