Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a very functional and surprisingly usable piece of software that really does make managing large virtual machine farms much easier. If a storage area network is detected, the VMM server will automatically route large virtual machine copies over the SAN for rapid deployment. An integrated physical-to-virtual (P2V) tool is another useful feature, making it easy to migrate existing servers to the virtual world. Reviewers had very few problems putting Virtual Machine Manager 2007 through its paces and were impressed with Microsoft’s first offering in this area.

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