System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) forms part of Microsoft's

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line of

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management and reporting tools, alongside previously established tools such as System Center Operations Manager and

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. SCVMM is designed for management of large numbers of Virtual Servers based on

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and

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, and was released for enterprise customers in October 2007. Virtual Machine Manager FAQ
/ref> A standalone version for small and medium business customers is available. System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables increased physical server utilization by making possible simple and fast consolidation on virtual infrastructure. This is supported by consolidation candidate identification, fast Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration and intelligent workload placement based on performance data and user defined business policies (NOTE: P2V Migration capability was removed in SCVMM 2012r2). VMM enables rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and end users using a self-service provisioning tool. Finally, VMM provides the central management console to manage all the building blocks of a virtualized data center. Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager was released in September 2016. This product enables the deployment and management of a virtualized, software-defined datacenter with a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, computing, and security. Microsoft System Center 2019 Virtual Machine Manager was released in March 2019. It added features in the areas of Azure integration, computing, networking, security and storage. The latest release i
Microsoft System Center 2022 Virtual Machine Manager UR1
which was released on November 15, 2022. It added features in the areas of support for Azure Stack HCI clusters 22H2, VMware ESXI 7.0, SQL Server 2022.

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Documentation for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008/2008 R2 (TechNet Library)Documentation for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (TechNet Library)Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, circa February 2007Blogs on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012TechNet wiki articles on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
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