Microsoft have released a 39 page guide for Planning a Virtual Machine Manager Deployment. Download the Deployment guide The guide covers each of the SCVMM components, how they interop with each other - and of course considerations for your environment.

It took about 20 minutes to read.  You can download the Planning a Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Deployment guide, and I found the following snippets interesting:

  • The maximum number of hosts and virtual machines tested with and supported by VMM on the highest recommended hardware configuration is 400 hosts and 8,000 virtual machines
  • VMM cannot be installed in a disjointed DNS namespace (to be perfectly honest, I’ve never tried - just assumed)