System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Features Overview

Current Release – RTM Sept. 6, 2007

  • Farm Management & Virtual Machine Provisioning

  • Health Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, Alerting, Environment Optimization through integration of   Operations Manager and Configuration Manager.

  • Hardware, VM, and Application level monitoring through Operations Manager integration.

  • Patching of VMs (online or offline) and Images through Configuration Manager integration.

  • Data Protection Manager integration allows for backup at the physical host level (which includes all the VMs running on that host).

Futures (6 months after W2008 RTM)

  • Adding Viridian (Windows Hypervisor) Support

  • Adding VMM support to manage all the different hypervisor technologies – Windows, VMWare, Xen - covering all the key scenarios they offer.  From a single console and a single command-line!

The Official Announcment and Details are on the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog.