System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) forms part of Microsoft's System Center line of management and reporting tools, alongside previously established tools such as Microsoft Operations Manager

Microsoft Operations Manager

System Center Operations Manager is a cross-platform data center management system for operating systems and hypervisors. It utilizes a single interface that shows state, health and performance information of computer systems. It also provides alerts generated according to some availability,...

 and Microsoft Systems Management Server

Microsoft Systems Management Server

System Center Configuration Manager , formerly Systems Management Server , is a systems management software product by Microsoft for managing large groups of Windows-based computer systems...

. SCVMM is designed for management of large numbers of Virtual Servers based on Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server is a virtualization solution that facilitates the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Originally developed by Connectix, it was acquired by Microsoft prior to release...

 and Hyper-V

Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. A beta version of Hyper-V was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008, and the finalized version was released on June 26,...

, and was released for enterprise customers in October 2007. A standalone version for small and medium business customers is available.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables increased physical server utilization by making possible simple and fast consolidation on virtual infrastructure. This is supported by consolidation candidate identification, fast Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration and intelligent workload placement based on performance data and user defined business policies. VMM enables rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and end users using a self-service provisioning tool. Finally, VMM provides the central management console to manage all the building blocks of a virtualized data center.

Its latest release was in 2010 named Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, which added Live Migration and other new features.

A beta is available for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. This product enables the creation and management of private clouds made up from Hyper-V, VMware and XenServer virtualization hosts.

See also

• Windows Server System
  Windows Server System
  Microsoft Servers is a brand that encompasses a line of Microsoft server products. This includes the server editions of Microsoft Windows operating system itself, as well as products targeted at the wider business market...
  
  
• Microsoft System Center
• System Center Configuration Manager
• System Center Data Protection Manager
  System Center Data Protection Manager
  System Center Data Protection Manager is a software product from Microsoft, designed to help IT professionals manage the Windows environment. It is part of the Microsoft System Center family of products and integrates disk-to-disk and near-continuous data protection for reliable recovery of...
  
  
• System Center Operations Manager

External links

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager homepage
• Documentation for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008/2008 R2 (TechNet Library)
• Documentation for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (TechNet Library)
• Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, circa February 2007
• SystemCenterGuide.com hosted by a Microsoft MVP
• Download beta Virtual Machine Manager 2012
• Blogs on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
• TechNet wiki articles on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012