The article by Vincent Vlieghe over at Virtualizationadmin.com (the new home for MSTerminalServices.org), discusses the installation of SCVMM 2008 and explores the basics of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: SCVMM 2008 is your one-stop shop to all your Virtual Server 2005 R2 Hyper-V hosts and even your VI3 infrastructure. VMware’s VirtualCenter can be added and so ESX hosts can be managed from within VMM. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides most VirtualCenter Server functionality including VMotion. More complex tasks such as adding hosts to an ESX cluster must be done using VirtualCenter itself. It is also tightly integrated with other System Center products (such as integration with System Center Operations Manager 2007) and PowerShell. A very interesting feature is Performance and Resource Optimization (or PRO). PRO is a feature of VMM which can dynamically respond to failure scenarios or poorly configured components that are identified in hardware, operating systems or applications. VMM 2008 also integrates with the new clustering support in Windows Server 2008 to allow for fault-tolerant and cluster aware virtual machines to be created. It leverages the much talked about Quick Migration technique.

Read Managing Hyper-V with SystemCenter Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (Part 1).