Microsoft SCVMM R2 is at RTM

A couple of days ago the Microsoft virtualisation management solution System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 was set as RTM.

As expected the RTM arrives just a few weeks after Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V R2 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 were released to the Microsoft partners, such as ourselves.

The most important new capability included in this release is the long awaited live migration for virtual machines. Microsoft also added in other features such as Quick Storage Motion and support for VMware port groups.

The Release Candidate should be considered feature complete but Microsoft managed to squeeze another feature into the RTM: partial support for VMware vSphere 4.0.

Basically Microsoft supports the new VMware platform only for the same features that were available in VI3.5. Some of the new capabilities that VMware offers will be supported in a future update of SCVMM.

The full version instead will be available to its its Volume License customers first, starting on October 1st.

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