One of the challenges of virtualization management is the sheer number of new configuration settings that get exposed to the IT administrator. IT orgs have always had problems with configuration drift but virtualization can make the situation worse if...

Told you it was coming soon :-) You can get the eval bits here . Additional information: System Center Blog detailing the release information Our team blog highlighting the key new features

I just wanted to clarify (incorrect) rumors/speculation about the release date for SCVMM 2008 R2. There is a lot of built up excitement for this release and we've added many features , none more anticipated than live migration. While it is true that our...

Over the course of the next few months, I’m going to “repurpose” this blog a little bit. We’re going to start using our team blog to focus on product announcements, features etc. It’s just easier to keep all of that information centralized and I will...

We just pushed out the RC for SCVMM 2008 R2 and you can get the bits at https://connect.microsoft.com/ We've managed to add many significant new features to our RC since the beta release based on customer feedback and you can read about the details...

Since the R2 beta was released, we've been at work incorporating some feedback from beta customers and our early adopters. As a result, we've added some pretty significant enhancements to SCVMM 2008 R2. Check out our team blog for the detailed feature...

This QFE includes several fixes including one with VMware resource pools discussed in a previous blog post of mine. You can get the QFE details here and download it via Microsoft Update using SCVMM 2008.

Here we go again! Since shipping VMM 2008 in October, we’ve been busy working on an update that supports Windows 2008 R2 and take advantage of the new features in the platform. Today, we’re announcing the Beta of VMM 2008 R2 (it was actually released...

It has come to my attention that some of our competitors are making various claims about SCVMM 2008 and VMware ESX management capabilities. I guess we have officially crashed the party but I thought I’d put together a blog post to address some of these...

We have just released an updated management pack for SCVMM 2008. This release includes updated reports for all platforms that we manage: · Virtualization Candidates · VM utilization · Host Utilization · Host Utilization Growth · VM Allocation...

Happy New Year everyone! A few months into the release of SCVMM, we’ve heard lots of great feedback from customers and the response has been very positive. Keep sending feedback and suggestions on how to make the product even better in future releases...

Well, SCVMM VNext of course.....the team is already hard at work on the next release to align with the Windows Server 2008 R2 hypervisor update. Like this release, there will be a short gap between the platform update and the management update but we...

Well, if you’re wondering why this blog has gone “dark” for the past few weeks, now you know. We’ve been working very hard to get SCVMM 2008 out the door and today I’m proud to announce that we’ve officially released SCVMM 2008! I want to thank all of...

In case you hadn't heard, we're having a huge virtualization launch today in Bellevue, WA. You'll be seeing lots of announcements etc. across many blogs so I won't repeat all of them here. Instead, I'd recommend that you check out live webcast here ....

Today I've got a guest poster from my team - Alan Goodman. Alan is the program manager responsible for SCVMM 2008's Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) feature. PRO functionality has been described at length on this and other blogs but this post...

Aside from overall performance, stability and reliability (things you might expect to improve from any beta), I thought I'd give folks a heads up on some of the things that we've added/changed for the final release next month which weren't in the beta...

In case you missed it, we recently announced a more precise date for the final release of SCVMM 2008 - September 2008. Previously we had said that it would be the second half of 2008 but Hyper-V shipped early and we're coming down the home stretch as...

A popular question that seems to be floating on various blogs and message boards is related to why SCVMM integrates with Virtual Infrastructure by proxying requests through Virtual Center Web Service APIs as opposed to talking directly to ESX. There are...

While SCVMM 2007 had good integration with Ops Manager, SCVMM 2008 has gone to the next level with our Performance and Resource Optimization feature (PRO). In a nutshell, PRO allows you to tie specific Ops Manager alerts to actionable remediation actions...

Big day for us today as Hyper-V hits the (virtual) shelves! Just a quick note about Hyper-V RTM and SCVMM beta - to date, we haven't found any major issues with compatibility between the two releases provided you're using the SCVMM patch that we put out...

Last week we held the "super bowl" (or "world cup" depending upon which flavor of football you prefer) of IT Pro conferences at Tech Ed held in Orlando. If you were there, you know that virtualization and our investments across the board were a central...

Many of you probably are already aware of this but in case you missed it, you can get the SCVMM patch that enables RC1 Hyper-V compat. The bits are available through our connect site . Key thing to keep in mind before applying the patch is that you must...

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post but just wanted folks to know that we're almost ready with a patch that makes SCVMM beta compatible with Hyper-V RC1. We're "dogfooding" it (we're using it ourselves) internally for the next couple of days...

The Hyper-V team has released RC1 of our virtualization platform (you can ready more about it here ). Due to some necessary and important interface changes made by the Hyper-V team, the recently released beta of SCVMM 2008 doesn't work correctly with...

In case you missed the announcement last week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, the beta for VMM VNext (now called VMM 2008) is publicly available - you can download the software here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/scvmm/default...