System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Microsoft
Paid
Legacy Cold - full outage for the whole copy
Agentless
Large estates
Workload V2V
What it is good at
Fabric management plus, in older builds, a bulk VMware-to-Hyper-V V2V wizard driven by PowerShell.
Where it falls down
The built-in VMware V2V conversion was removed in SCVMM 2019 and later. On current builds treat SCVMM as the landing-zone manager, not the converter.
Capabilities
- Wave / batch orchestration
- Agentless operation
- Network and IP mapping
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- Licensed with System Center per 16-core pack
- Licence model
- System Center Standard or Datacenter, licensed per physical core (packs of 2/16) on managed hosts. Often already owned under an Enterprise Agreement.
- How to license it
- Buy System Center through an EA, CSP or MPSA. Datacenter edition is required for high VM density. SCVMM is one component of the suite.
- Lifecycle
- Legacy
- Vendor page
- https://learn.microsoft.com/system-center/vmm/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
Supported targets
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI