Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 helps enable centralized management of physical and virtual IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms. It includes end-to-end capabilities such as planning, deploying, managing, and optimizing the virtual infrastructure.
Benefits
Centrally creates and manages virtual machines across the entire datacenter
Easily consolidates multiple physical servers onto virtual hosts
Rapidly provisions and optimizes new and existing virtual machines
Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) enables the dynamic management of virtual resources through management packs that are PRO enabled. As an open and extensible platform, PRO encourages partners to design custom management packs that promote compatibility of their products and solutions with PRO's powerful management capabilities.
This 10-minute video describes how VMM can manage physical, virtual, and heterogeneous hypervisor environments, like Hyper-V and VMware.
