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Real Control with Virtual Machine Manager 2007 |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008
by Michel Roth
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Probably the most important member of the System Center family of products in our industry is System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Although the announced support for Hyper-V, ESX and even Xen isn't there yet, it's worth to get to know the product. I ran into an article in Technet magazine that helps you to get know Virtual Machine Manager 2007.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a product that provides a consolidated interface for managing your entire virtual infrastructure. Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) currently manages existing Virtual Server 2005 installations, and it can also install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on new virtual machine (VM) hosts. With VMM, the traditional Virtual Server 2005 administrative tasks can now be performed far more efficiently through a centralized interface, with management access across multiple Virtual Server installations.
In addition, VMM brings new capabilities to Virtual Server, including Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversions, Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) conversion of VMware Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) disks to Virtual Server Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs), and rapid VM deployments from templates and pre-configured VHDs via a centralized library of virtual infrastructure objects.
The article explores VMM and the set of features it provides to IT administrators. It will go trough the requirements and steps for creating a VMM installation. Finally, it will take a deeper dive into a handful of the more exciting features of VMM and leaves you with some helpful tips on getting started.
Read Real Control with Virtual Machine Manager 2007.
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