Specifications

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Figure 3. VMM with Operations Manager can create a comprehensive consolidation candidates report
After identifying underutilized servers, IT administrators need to convert their physical machines to
virtual ones. Manually converting physical machines to virtual machines is slow and error-prone. VMM
mitigates these problems by integrating P2V conversions into the management application and by
providing timesaving tools such as the P2V wizard shown in Figure 4.
Converting physical servers into virtual machines is simple with VMM, which provides a task-based
wizard to guide the administrator through the process. VMM uses the Windows Server
®
Volume
Shadow Copy Service, which helps IT administrators create virtual machines without having to shut
down the source physical server.