Greetings!

Earlier this morning, at MMS 2008 (Las Vegas), we announced that SCVMM 2008 (vNext) Beta is released and available for download at Connect site immediately. Here is the official press release. More news and pictures about our beta release can be found here.

VMM vNext Beta is a much awaited release, which provides supports for three virtualization platforms (Virtuall Server, Hyper-V and VMware) and offers some exciting new features. Here is a quick overview of the features we offer in this beta release:

  • Continue extending our rich feature sets from SCVMM 2007:
    • Host Configuration
    • Library Management
    • Virtual Machine Creation
    • Conversions: P2V & V2V
    • Delegation and Self Service
    • Intelligent Placement
    • Deployment and Storage Management
    • Monitoring and Reporting
    • Automation with PowerShell
  • New investment in SCVMM 2008 (vNext):
    • Heterogeneous Hypervisor Management (Hyper-V and VMware)
    • Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Integration
    • Performance & Resource Optimization (with integration with SCOM)
    • Delegated Administration

I'll drill into some of the new features in the future posts.

Thanks,

Cheng