System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 – Evaluation

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 (VMM) is a comprehensive management solution for the virtualized data center. It enables increased physical server utilization, centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator, delegated administrator, and authorized end users.

VMM 2008 R2 SP1 can manage all the platforms managed by VMM 2008 R2 and adds support for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 includes significant feature improvements to Hyper-V. VMM 2008 R2 SP1 leverages these new platform enhancements and extends the feature set of VMM 2008 R2.

Feature Bullet Summary:

  • Dynamic Memory
  • RemoteFX
  • Live migration
  • Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) support that enables multiple Highly Available Virtual Machines (HAVM) per LUN.
  • Hot add of storage
  • Support for VMware vSphere 4 (VMware VI3 feature parity only)
  • SAN Migration into and out of clustered hosts
  • Processor flexibility
  • Network optimization
  • Quick storage migration
  • Maintenance mode for hosts
  • Support for third party cluster file system, Sanbolic Melio FS
  • Support for third party storage class resource, Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows
  • Expanded support for iSCSI SANs
  • Support for VMware port groups for virtual switches
  • Support for Virtual Machine permissions assigned in Hyper-V
  • Dynamic policy based load balancing

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