By Michael Cherry [bio]
Posted: Jun. 9, 2008

The following is an illustration accompanying an article published by Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm focused exclusively on Microsoft strategy & technology. More samples of our content, as well as a list of upcoming articles and reports are also available.

When an organization deploys both Systems Center Operations Manager (OM), and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), it can take advantage of VMM's Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) feature.

The OM agents on the physical servers and virtual machines (VMs) report information on the OS and the applications and on infrastructure components such as processors, disks, and the network back to an OM server running the VMM and PRO-enabled management packs.

The OM server reports the status of the physical servers and the VMs to VMM, where the status is compared against parameters set by the administrator.

If a VM falls out of the range set by the administrator, VMM can either alert the administrator of the condition or it can take action, such as performing a quick migration to move the VM to a better server or increasing the resources available to the VM.