Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager...

Following on from that last post, Microsoft have released Beta 1 of their VirtualCenter competitor, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (yes, crappy name). I'm downloading the bits now, and will write up something here in the next week or 2... things are going to get very interesting in the near future, especially when Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 ships with full support for Intel VT / AMD Pacifica. Of course I'm sure VMWare server will at least match it in performance, but I'll be interested to see if the gap closes at all on ESX.