

Features to handle failure scenarios, HA, cluster awareness.P2V, V2V, Manage physical and virtual machines.In fact, SCVMM requires VC in order to integrate with VMware) Support for managing Microsoft and VMware VM environments (Full integration with Virtual Center (VC).Some of the key points to note about SCVMM are: You can read more about the functionality of SCVMM here and here. The final GA of the product is expected in September 2008. Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) – This is a more advanced management product that is currently available in beta from Microsoft.All in all, a basic tool to get you started with Hyper-V.

Once the VM is created, you can start/stop/snapshot a VM and also connect to the VM using a built in virtual machine connector. With this administration tool, you can also do basic tasks on your Hyper-V host like creating a VM, changing the settings of a VM, getting to the settings of disk, memory, network etc. You can manage and set the Hyper-V server settings using this.

