System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, 2008 R2, and 2008 R2 SP1 Configuration Analyzer

Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) was designed to be a diagnostic tool that you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) roles or other VMM functions.

Important - You must install and run the VMMCA on the computer that either currently is or will become your VMM 2008 server. - You should use this version of the VMMCA with VMM 2008 only.

The VMMCA is a diagnostic tool you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve VMM roles or other VMM functions.

The VMMCA scans the hardware and software configurations of the computers you specify, evaluates them against a set of predefined rules, and then provides you with error messages and warnings for any configurations that are not optimal for the VMM role or other VMM function that you have specified for the computer.

Before installing VMM, you can use the VMMCA to help you evaluate the configuration of computers that you might use for the following VMM roles: - VMM server - VMM Administrator Console - VMM Self-Service Portal

After installing VMM, you can use the VMMCA to evaluate the configurations of computers that you are now using or might use for the VMM roles listed above, as well as computers that you are using or might use for any of the following VMM functions: -  Windows Server–based host - VMware Virtual Center Server - P2V source computer - Operations Manager agent