Chapter 1. Introduction to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

In IT environments today, virtualization is becoming the new hot technology. With the increased emphasis on power, cooling, and space savings due to cost, virtualization has made its entry into both the enterprise and the datacenter. It was initially used as a technology to consolidate legacy hardware, but administrators are now seeing the full range of benefits offered by virtualization. Products like Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) provide end-to-end management of the entire virtualized infrastructure, from the physical hosts to the guest operating systems. VMM is one of the first products on the market today to offer heterogeneous management; you can use it to manage Microsoft's ...

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