Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 (Essentials 2010) will be Microsoft’s second release of an IT systems management product specifically designed for the midsized business. Based heavily on customer feedback, Essentials 2010 will offer integration of physical and virtual server management and monitoring into one product and one console. Essentials 2010:
Provides a unified solution with a single console for managing a broad range of tasks across your servers (virtual and physical), clients, hardware, software, and IT services for a unified experience.
Enables you to proactively manage your IT environment, helping keep your system up-to-date with a solution that accelerates problem resolution and enables automation of system updates and data collection.
Is easier to deploy and maintain helping simplify complex management tasks for increased IT efficiency.
The following screenshot shows the Essentials 2010 console.
New Investments for Essentials 2010
Read on for a look at some of the specific improvements planned for Essentials 2010.
Unified Experience
Integration of virtualization management, including live migration
Automated computer grouping
Server management limit increased to 50
Proactive Management
Automated management of updates and installation deadlines
Improved software distribution targeting
Dynamic importation of monitoring management packs
Increased Efficiency
Quick provisioning of new virtual machines
Easy server conversions from physical-to-virtual
Intelligent placement of virtual workloads
