Specifications

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Reviewer’s Guide 9
Management Toolset
VMM empowers IT administrators with a toolset for virtual infrastructure management. The following list
of components summarizes how these tools work.
Administrator Console
The Administrator Console, shown in Figure 2, provides administrators with a full suite of virtual
machine management functions. This graphical user interface helps administrators easily manage state
transitions such as starting, stopping, and pausing virtual machines simply by clicking on the virtual
machine and then on the action to perform. Administrators can also save virtual machine setups as
templates and then clone those machines elsewhere. In addition, the Administrator Console works
seamlessly with Operations Manager 2007 to provide insight into both the physical and virtual
environment. For example, with the ability to map the relationship of virtual and physical assets, IT
administrators can more effectively plan hardware maintenance.
Since the VMM Administrator Console is built on the Operations Manager user interface, administrators
can quickly and easily become proficient at managing their virtual machines.
Figure 2. VMM Administrator Console provides a full suite of virtual machine management functions
Centralized Library
The VMM library is a central repository for virtual assets, or ―building blocks‖ used to create virtual
machines quickly and consistently, including:
 Stored virtual machines
 Virtual hard disks
 CD/DVD software images, also called ISO files