System Center Virtual Machine Manager demo at WinHEC

Following up the Windows virtualization demonstration today in Bill Gates' keynote - we also had demonstrations of the upcoming System Center Virtual Machine Manager (codenamed 'Carmine'). This is really cool. Some key features that were demonstrated today:

• Physical to virtual conversion of server workloads
• Creation of new virtual machines from a template library
• Intelligent placement of virtual machines in a server farm
• The 'Self Service portal'

The self service portal is really cool. This is a web interface that allows users to create and manage a restricted set of virtual machines - as defined by an administrator - all over the web.

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  If anyone out there is familiar with the Akimbi product, I would be interested to know how this compares to that product.