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System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 (SSP) is now available free and fully supported by Microsoft. This is a fully supported, partner extensible solution that enables you to dynamically pool, allocate, and mange compute network, and storage resources to deliver a private cloud platform to your datacenter.

Features of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0:

• Automation and Guidance: to assess, plan and design your private cloud foundation infrastructure
• Customer/Business Unit On-boarding: automated workflows to onboard business unit IT departments onto your virtualized shared resource pool
• Dynamic Provisioning Engine: to rapidly provision virtualization infrastructure in conjunction with System Center and Hyper-V
• Self-Service Portal: to empower consumers of IT to request and provision infrastructure for their Apps/Services
• Partner Extensibility: enable partners to expose their unique hardware capabilities through familiar Microsoft scripting technologies while providing variety and flexibility to IT

Learn more, get more

• Visit the Official SCVMM Self-Service Portal blog
• Download the Self-Service Portal