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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 review

8.0

Editors' Rating

Excellent

Price:TBA

Verdict

Microsoft has delivered a remarkably effective first attempt at centralised virtual machine management. It can only get better when it supports Hyper-V and other platforms... Read Full Review.

Pros

  • Central management of virtual machines across hosts
  • Rapid provisioning via central library and customisable VM templates
  • Integrated P2V and V2V conversion tools
  • VM migration and resource tuning
  • Self-service Web portal

Cons

  • Windows Virtual Server 2005 only
  • No live migration or dynamic allocation of resources

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