System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 RTM is now available for public evaluation download. VMM 2008 R2 RTM is the latest upgrade to VMM 2008, Microsoft’s comprehensive management solution for the virtualized datacenter which enables consolidation of physical servers, rapid provisioning of new virtual machines and unified management of physical and virtual infrastructure through one console. VMM 2008 R2 now manages many of the great new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 RC Hyper-V including:
- Live Migration -- for moving virtual machines between hosts with no downtime
- Additional enhanced migration support for SAN migration in and out of clusters
- Multiple virtual machines per LUN using Clustered Share Volumes
- Hot add of virtual machine storage
- Functionality to migrate storage for running VMs
- iSCSI target and SAN-based migration across clusters
- Template-based rapid provisioning
- Maintenance mode to automate the evacuation of VMs off host machines
- Live Migration host compatibility checks
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Features and Benefits of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- * Migration: With this feature, administrators can use VMM to easily migrate virtual machines between clustered hosts without affecting the connected users.
- * Clustered Shared Volumes: Enables administrators to place multiple virtual machines on a single LUN and manage them individually, greatly simplifying LUN configuration for the administrator.
- * Hot addition/removal of storage: With this capability, administrators can quickly and efficiently respond to changing storage requirements of virtual machines.
- * Maintenance Mode: VMM 2008 R2 provides maintenance mode – a one-step process whereby active virtual machines are safely evacuated to other hosts within the cluster before maintenance begins.
- * SAN migrations in and out of clustered hosts: Another time and labor saving feature of VMM 2008 R2 is its ability to automatically migrate VMs in and out of clustered hosts using SAN transfers.V
- * Automatic resolution of disjoint domains: With VMM 2008 R2, this process is automated by the creation of a custom Service Principal Name (SPN) in both AD and DNS.
- * Expanded support for iSCSI SANs: With expanded support now covering the majority of available iSCSI SANs, VMM 2008 R2 enables administrators to choose from a wider range of options when selecting a new SAN.
- * Support for optimized networking: VMM 2008 R2 supports two new networking services – Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) and TCP Chimney – for more efficient processing of network traffic .
- * Admin control of port groups used by VMM: VMM 2008 R2 enables administrators to maintain control in selecting the preferred port groups for VMM’s use.
- * Support for Quick Storage Migration: VMM 2008 R2 now allows for the migration of a VM’s storage both within the same host and across hosts with minimum downtime.
- * Queuing of Live migrations: Administrators can perform multiple Live Migrations without having to keep track of other Live Migrations within the cluster.
- * Rapid Provisioning: VMM 2008 R2 leverages advanced storage provider technologies to clone LUNs containing a VHD whi
- * Host compatibility checks: Provides deep compatibility checks so administrators can determine if a Source host is compatible with the destination host before performing a migration.
- * Support for third party CFS: For users requiring a true clustered file system, VMM 2008 R2 supports third party file systems by detecting CFS disks and allows for deploying multiple VMs per LUN.
- * Support for Veritas Volume Manager: VMM 2008 R2 recognizes Veritas Volume Manager disks as a cluster disk resource.
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