Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has RTM’d!

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That’s right, just yesterday the latest update to System Center Virtual Machine Manager was released to manufacturing – and the evaluation version is available for download now!

VMM 2008 R2 Features

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

Additional features:

  • 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

Need to ramp with some online training?  On September 9th the VMM team will host a TechNet Training session online - Go here to register for this Wednesday, September 09, 2009 (10:00 AM Pacific) event