I am pleased that it is being acknowledged by VMware (evidenced by their keynote announcements yesterday on the vCenter additions) that for a strong virtualization platform a complete end-to-end solution is required. We agree completely!! We at Microsoft provide solutions for configuration/change management, operational/health monitoring, virtual machine management and data protection and have been doing so for a while now. Just to get some perspective I dug up the release dates for our management software (I have trimmed the list a bit for readabilityJ). From the table below its clear that our management lifecycle experience goes back many many years. It is great to see VMware finally acknowledge this and is attempting to now build a solution that spans some aspects of this end-to-end management. We welcome this.
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Products
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Date
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Operations Manager 2000 Enterprise Edition
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3/1/2001
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Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
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11/24/2004
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System Center Operations Manager 2007
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6/23/2007
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007
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11/29/2007
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
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1/29/2009
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
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8/2009
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System Center Data Protection Manager
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10/22/2005
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System Center Data Protection Manager 2006
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10/22/2005
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System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
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12/15/2007
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System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1
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12/19/2008
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Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition
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10/23/1996
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Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 3
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2/13/2001
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Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition
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4/1/1999
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Systems Management Server 2003
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1/20/2004
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Systems Management Server 2003 R2
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8/25/2006
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Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3
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4/27/2007
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System Center Configuration Manager 2007
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11/29/2007
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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2
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11/29/2008
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