Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 at RC Status

Hyper-V 2.0 will be available as of October 2009 so it should come as no surprise that Microsoft will be pushing SCVMM R2 also, and they have - it is now available as a Release Candidate.

As it is a RC the list below should make the final cut to RTM, and there are some key features that we have all been waiting for!

• Virtual machines live migration between Windows Server 2008 R2 clustered hosts
• Network optimization detection during virtual machine placement
• Hot addition and removal of virtual hard disks (VHDs)
• Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) Support
• Support for Sanbolic Clustered File System
• Support for Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows
• SAN Migration into and out of Clustered Hosts
• Expanded Support for iSCSI SANs
• Quick Storage Migration
• Maintenance Mode for Hosts
• Support for VMware Port Groups for Virtual Switches
• Support for Virtual Machine Permissions Assigned in Hyper-V.

Quite a lot of advancements I think you will agree, what are your thoughts on the features - anything missing that you wanted to see?