Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

Chapter 6. Managing Virtual Server Using VMM

When Virtual Machine Manager 2007 was originally released, the only virtualization platform it supported was Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. VMM has come a long way in a short period of time, however, now supporting both Hyper-V and VMware ESX. Yet, the basic principles and scenarios that VMM used for supporting Virtual Server have remained. Once a user gets familiar with VMM, the virtualization platform is abstracted in the easy-to-use wizards and he or she can deploy and manage a virtual machine on any virtualization platform.

Virtual Server became very popular in 2005 since it provided a low-cost virtualization solution (Virtual Server was later provided by Microsoft as a free download) that ...