The final version of SC VMM -- which began shipping in November -- is much improved over the beta code we tested last fall, but it has still got some rough patches in terms of integration with Microsoft's Operations Manager (needed for monitoring and trending) and as supporting non-Windows VMs goes.
SC VMM now conveniently manages VMware's ESX-based VMs, but that support requires that VMware's own VirtualCenter management application (which VMware charges for) already be in place to perform much of the actual work when managing ESX VMs. This condition exists for other products tested as well.
Hosting SC VMM requires hardware resources that depend on how many hosts you plan to install. Each machine that runs the SC VMM management console needs at least a 2GHz x64 processor, 2GB of memory and 10GB of hard disk space. (See a screenshot.)
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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