System Center Virtual Machine Manager demo at WinHEC

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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