VMM 2016 Supports Software-Defined Data Centers

Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2016 contains many improvements for managing software-defined data centers running on Windows Server 2016. It has improvements to manage compute, storage, networking, and security technologies and may allow customers to virtualize more critical workloads than they did in the past. However, VMM requires a significant investment in infrastructure and must be acquired as part of the System Center licensing suite, which has changed to a per-core licensing model.

VMM Can Provision, Deploy, and Manage VMs and Hosts

VMM is Microsoft’s primary virtualization management tool and is part of the System Center suite of systems management products. Originally released in 2006, VMM has steadily gained new features and is now an end-to-end infrastructure provisioning and management solution for virtualized data centers and Azure virtualized resources. VMM can help customers manage not only host servers and virtual machines (VMs) but also virtualized desktop infrastructures (VDIs). VMM can manage up to 25,000 VMs running on up to 1,000 hosts.