It’s official. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has been released to manufacturing, Microsoft reports. General availability for those interested in volume licensing is on track for October 1, according to the System Center Team Blog.
A 180-day evaluation version of this latest release is available today too on the Microsoft Download site. You can access it here. SCVMM 2008 R2 includes the long-awaited feature, Live Migration. Here is a list of its other features, according to Microsoft.
Feature Bullet Summary:
- Live migration
- Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) support that enables multiple Highly Available Virtual Machines (HAVM) per LUN.
- Hot add of storage
- Support for VMware vSphere 4 (VMware VI3 feature parity only)
- SAN Migration into and out of clustered hosts
- Processor flexibility
- Network optimization
- Quick storage migration
- Maintenance mode for hosts
- Support for third party cluster file system, Sanbolic Melio FS
- Support for third party storage class resource, Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows
- Expanded support for iSCSI SANs
- Support for VMware port groups for virtual switches
- Support for Virtual Machine permissions assigned in Hyper-V
- Dynamic policy based load balancing
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