System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 allows users to use the same tools to manage both virtual and physical assets Microsoft released its first software designed specifically to manage virtual ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft released to manufacturing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The final code will be shipped on Nov. 1. The company bills the software as one-stop organization, allowing ...

With virtualization taking over the computing world, enterprises everywhere are finding that virtual machines spread across an organization need to be managed as much as their physical computers are.

For many IT departments currently evaluating or implementing a private cloud model of computing, this is the next phase or evolution in upgrading their existing virtualized data center. Part of that ...

Yesterday, we asked Microsoft when Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 would ship. (We asked via Microsoft’s experimental Twitter hashtag, #qs4ms.) Due to the power of Twitter, the ...

Microsoft this week released the second major component of its virtualization strategy, making System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008) as a download. The first piece, the Hyper-V ...

The following are best practices in managing your VMM 2008 R2 environment: Use VMM’s P2V function to convert physical computers to virtual machines. Use VMM’s V2V function to convert virtual machines ...

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The product, currently called Microsoft Virtual Server Manager, will allow broad support for administration via "Monad," Microsoft's next-generation scripting platform for Windows Longhorn Server and ...

Last week Microsoft ran a series of webcasts for the press, focusing on their virtualisation and cloud services (and the tools and technologies around them). Calling them "Cloud Week", the company ...

Microsoft has released Beta 2 of its Virtual Machine Manager, which is designed to help companies manage their virtualization deployments. The software, which should be ready by the end of the year, ...