News and Reviews

This new webcast covers a powerful new feature in VMM 2008 called Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) that enables administrators to quickly indentify performance issues in their virtualized environment and provides remedial recommendations to rectify them. See how it can help optimize your virtual infrastructure.

When a virtual machine (VM) is not running, it’s not receiving operating system updates. Keeping all your virtual machines up to date manually is hard work. A new Solution Accelerator automates software updates for VMs stored in a library managed by Virtual Machine Manager.

SCVMM Product Team and Support Engineers Blog (1-28-2009): We have been getting a lot of excitement and questions about the reports for the VMM 2008 MP.  With this blog post we can announce that this update is ready and available for download today.

Windows IT Pro Magazine (December 2008 edition) With Microsoft’s virtualization platform reaching maturity in 2008, the company’s offerings now span the PC desktop, small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs), enterprises, and even the largest data centers.

Cheng Wei’s “Random Thoughts” Blog (12-5-2008)  Today, I've got a guest poster, Carmen Asher, one of my colleagues in VMM team. Carmen is the program manager responsible for SCVMM Configuration Analyzer 2008. Her post below provides you with all the information you need to know on: what VMMCA is all about, where to download it, how to use it, and she is nice enough to even prepare a section of frequently asked questions.

eWeek (11/25/2008)  Microsoft breaks new ground by adding support for VMware ESX Infrastructure to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. This is a nearly unprecedented step for Microsoft and Hyper-V, and warrants immediate IT manager evaluation for both tactical and strategic implementation in enterprise data centers Microsoft breaks new ground by adding support for VMware ESX Infrastructure to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

eWeek Released to manufacturing on Oct. 21, the Microsoft SC VMM 2008 can now manage VMware ESX servers. SC VMM 2008 can also create new virtual machines on Windows Server 2008 systems and will automatically turn on the Hyper-V role if it is not already active on the target hardware

(Computerworld) 10-23-2008  On Tuesday, Microsoft released to manufacturing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The final code will be shipped on Nov. 1. The company bills the software as one-stop organization, allowing administrators to set up and deploy new virtual machines and manage hosts and other virtual infrastructure elements from one console.

Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog(10-21-2008) Zane Adam, Sr. Director of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft, writes to announce Microsoft has released to manufacturing (RTM’d) System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and to talk a bit about its critical role in the broad set of virtualization offerings from Microsoft.