Estoy probando el administrador de maquina virtuales de Microsoft, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, y de mas esta decir que trae muchas nuevas funcionalidades. En futuras notas entraremos mas en detalle de las mismas, ahora queria compartir con ustedes una nota acerca de este producto que se encuentra publicada en el sitio de Microsoft.

Saludos, Roberto Di’Lello.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007: Comprehensive Management Solution for the Virtualized Data Center
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a comprehensive, cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines. Virtual Machine Manager speeds and simplifies many common data center tasks while providing administrators with powerful tools to perform critical activities such as consolidating underutilized physical servers and rapidly provisioning new virtual machines.
Using Virtual Machine Manager can make a difference in several key ways. First, you can use it to maximize IT resources. It’s a simple yet robust support for consolidating multiple physical servers into a virtual environment increases overall utilization of physical hosts. Second, it helps create an agile data center. With the rapid virtual machine (VM) provisioning capabilities in Virtual Machine Manager, administrators can build and deploy new virtual machines at a fraction of the time and cost needed for physical hardware. Finally, by using it, you can take advantage of existing skills. Using the common interface and intuitive controls in Virtual Machine Manager, you can maximize your IT department’s existing Windows Server and System Center expertise, minimizing the need for retraining of administrators and help desk personnel.
You’ll find these key components in Virtual Machine Manager:
1. Intelligent placement of virtual workloads that ensures rapid deployment and migration of virtual machines on the best-suited physical host servers. The product employs an intuitive ranking system based on an extensive and modifiable placement algorithm.
2. Fast and reliable physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions. An easy-to-use wizard converts physical machines into virtual ones with just a few clicks from the Administrator Console.
3. Centralized library repository that stores and archives all the building blocks of the virtual data center, such as virtual hard disks, CD/DVD media images, post-deployment customization scripts, hardware configurations, templates, and ISO images.
4. Fully scriptable with Windows Powershell. Every command or control available in the Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console can also be executed by Windows Powershell, a powerful new administrator-focused command shell and scripting language.
5. Integration with System Center. Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager works seamlessly alongside System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007, and System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, providing the most comprehensive server management suite in the industry.
For more information on System Center Virtual Machine Manager, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/scvmm/evaluation/default.mspx