Introducing Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is a product with several names. There is the formal and very long name, but it is also referred to as SCVMM 2008 R2 or VMM 2008 R2. The current version (previous versions were 2007 and 2008) is just referred to as SCVMM or VMM. Microsoft has several aims for VMM:

Centralized Management Most deployments of Hyper-V in a business environment will include a number of host servers. This could be quite a significant number of machines. Hyper-V can be managed with the built-in Hyper-V console and the Failover Clustering console, but these tools alone would not be enough to manage large or complex installations. VMM provides the ability to manage many ...

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