Microsoft releases Virtual Machine Manager
MCP Magazine | at | by Mike
Microsoft today released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, the second major component of its virtualization strategy.
The first piece, the Hyper-V hypervisor, was released last June 26. A hypervisor is responsible for creating virtual machines, containers that hold operating systems and applications. The next step is to manage those VMs, and that's where VMM 2008 comes in. Management is the "hot" space right now in the virtualization industry.
VMM 2008 has a number of features that Microsoft hopes will distinguish it from chief rival and industry titan VMware's management product, called vCenter. The two key features Redmond touts are its ability to manage physical as well as virtual machines, and the capacity to manage ESX, VMware's hypervisor.