System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is a centralized management tool for virtual infrastructures that allows administrators to deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs) across physical servers. It provides capabilities for rapid VM provisioning, increased server utilization through virtualization, centralized monitoring of the virtual environment, and delegated administration through self-service portals. SCVMM supports management of both Hyper-V and VMware virtualized environments from a single console.
11. What's new with SCVMM 2008 R2 Live Migration Support for Clustered Shared Volumes and Third Party CFS Quick Storage Migration Hot-Add and Removal of Storage Maintenance Mode Rapid Provisioning Host Compatibility Checks
12. VMware Management Driven by customer demand Unified management experience Physical and Virtual Hyper-V and VMware Full virtual machine management VMotion, Resource Pools, etc. Enhanced capabilities Intelligent Placement Library Powershell PRO application aware calibration
13. Delegation and Self Service Administrators control access through policies which designate capabilities Delegated Administrators Manage a scoped environment Self Service user Web user interface Manage their own VMs Quota to limit VMs Scripting through PowerShell
15. Intelligent Placement Capacity planning technology ensures best resource utilization Star rated results for easy decision making Customizable algorithm to achieve your goals Applicable to both Microsoft and VMware hosts
16. Conversions: P2V and V2V Intuitive and easy to use tools provide: Core feature of VMM, no additional infrastructure or costs per conversion Wizard based experience Reconfigure storage, memory, CPU, etc. Efficient disk copy Preserves network settings and MAC addresses Automatable through PowerShell Supported platforms: Live - Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 SMP and x64 sources
17. Performance & Resource Optimization (PRO) Workload and application aware resource optimization Extensible through the Operations Manager 2007 MP framework Create policies that VMM acts upon tips automatically or manually Minimize downtime and accelerating time to resolution. Enables partners to deliver value add to our mutual customers
18. Session Summary SCVMM has many useful management tools SCVMM Simplifies Managing and Monitoring Physical and Virtual Platforms
19. Resources Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/scvmm Tech Center (for documentation and downloads): http://technet.microsoft.com/scvmm/default.aspx Microsoft Virtualization Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/virtualization Microsoft System Center Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Homepagehttp://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v/