System Center Virtual Machine Manager description
Provides centralized administration of virtual machine infrastructure

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a part of the Microsoft System Center family of system management products and was designed to provide a simple and cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines, consolidation of underutilized physical servers, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by leveraging the expertise and investments in Microsoft server technology.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager application will provide centralized administration of virtual machine infrastructure and will enable increased physical server utilization and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and authorized end users.

Here are some key features of "System Center Virtual Machine Manager":

· Centralized deployment and management of virtual machines
· Intelligent Placement analysis to determine the best servers for virtualization
· Quick physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual conversion
· Ease of use with a familiar interface and seamless integration with other Microsoft products
· Faster deployments with administrator-managed self-service provisioning
· Resource efficiency with server consolidation and increased processor utilization
· Quick automation via PowerShell scripting integration


Requirements:

· A virtualization product that supports the VHD format is required to use this virtual machine. Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server are provided for free and can be used with these VHD based virtual machines.
· In addition to the System Requirements for the virtualization product, you will need additional disk and memory resources for running the virtual machine. This VHD is pre-configured to use approximately 10GB of hard disk space and approximately 512MB of memory.


Limitations:

· 120 days trial