I was just listening to the “System Centre Virtual Machine Manager” episode on TechNet Radio, and heard some supergossip.

Edwin Yuen (The Technical Product Manager for SCVMM) mentions in his interview that SCVMM will ship very soon …any day now …and be available for download as a trial (26:35 and 27:20)

Phwaar!  He doesn’t say how soon, is soon, but that’s pretty cool.  There was also a heap of other good stuff as well.  You can check the podcast “Managing Virtualization with Virtual Machine Manager 2007” for yourself or a snippet is below:

This episode will describe how the System Center products are used to manage the virtualized datacenter. We will cover the features and benefits of using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 environment. The Microsoft Virtualization Management strategy will be covered, along with various usage scenarios for VMM and SCOM.

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