{"id":1389,"date":"2009-03-17T19:55:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T19:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/announcing-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2.htm"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:19:29","slug":"announcing-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/announcing-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2.htm","title":{"rendered":"Announcing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/systemcenter\/virtualmachinemanager\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/scvmm.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"System Center Virtual Machine Manager\" \/><\/a>It doesn&#8217;t seem like five minutes since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/microsoft-releases-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008.htm\">Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008<\/a> but it appears that the SCVMM team is on a swift development cycle as, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/systemcenter\/archive\/2009\/03\/16\/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-vmm-2008-r2-beta-now-available.aspx\">yesterday, Microsoft announced availability of a beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Details are still a little sketchy but some of the new features and functionality included in SCVMM 2008 R2 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2, including:\n<ul>\n<li>Live Migration: Enables the movement of running virtual machines from one virtual host to another with no downtime.  <\/li>\n<li>Hot addition\/removal of VHDs:  Allows the addition and removal of new virtual hard disks (VHDs) on a running virtual machine.  <\/li>\n<li>New networking protocols: Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) and TCP Chimney.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Streamlined process for managing host upgrades: Controlling the application of updates or performance of maintenance on a host server by safely evacuating all virtual machines to other hosts on a cluster using live migration or by putting those workloads into a saved state to be safely reactivated when maintenance or upgrades are complete. Maintenance mode is enabled for all supported platforms Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.<\/li>\n<li>Support for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): Enables administrators to deploy and manage virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in their data center environment.  <\/li>\n<li>Support of disjoint domains:  Reduces the complexity of reconciling host servers with differing domain names in Active Directory and DNS.  In these situations, SCVMM 2008 R2 automatically creates a custom service principal name (SPN) configured in Active Directory and DNS to allow for successful authentication.  <\/li>\n<li>Use of defined port groups with VMware Virtual Center: On installation, SCVMM 2008 R2 will present available port groups for SCVMM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use &#8211; allowing administrators to maintain control over which port groups are used. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/rakeshm\/archive\/2009\/03\/16\/scvmm-2008-r2-beta-is-available-now.aspx\">Rakesh Malhotra has more information on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Availability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is yet to be confirmed; however I would expect this to follow shortly after Hyper-V v2 (which should be in Windows Server 2008 R2).  Also missing from the current feature list is the ability to manage Citrix XenServer hosts &#8211; something else which we can expect to see following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/as-xenserver-goes-free-new-management-tools-are-promised-and-vmware-gets-another-thorn-in-its-side.htm\">Citrix and Microsoft&#8217;s joint announcements last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in taking a look at the beta of SCVMM 2008 R2, it is available via <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft Connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For organisations that don&#8217;t want to run a beta but would like to take a look at the existing release (SCVMM 2008), there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9530142\">fully-functional 180-day trial<\/a> available on the Microsoft website (also available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a27e89c-2d73-4f57-a62c-83afb4c953f0\">pre-configured virtual hard disk<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/systemcenter\/virtualmachinemanager\/en\/us\/demos.aspx\">demos of the various features in SCVMM 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem like five minutes since Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 but it appears that the SCVMM team is on a swift development cycle as, yesterday, Microsoft announced availability of a beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Details are still a little sketchy but some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/announcing-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-scvmm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Announcing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/announcing-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Announcing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It doesn&#8217;t seem like five minutes since Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 but it appears that the SCVMM team is on a swift development cycle as, yesterday, Microsoft announced availability of a beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. 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There are those (generally those who have a big investment in VMware technologies) who say Microsoft's hypervisor lacks the features to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Linux\"","block_context":{"text":"Linux","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/linux"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1416,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/microsoft-virtualization-the-r2-wave.htm","url_meta":{"origin":1389,"position":4},"title":"Microsoft Virtualization: the R2 wave","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Friday 17 April 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The fourth Microsoft Virtualisation User Group (MVUG) meeting took place last night and Microsoft's Matt McSpirit presented a session on the R2 wave of virtualisation products. 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