This guide provides information on installing System Center Essentials 2007 (Essentials 2007) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager Workgroup Edition (VMM 2007) in the same environment.
It focuses on the system requirements, setup overview and best practices. Please refer to the installation guides of each product for more information.
Essentials 2007 provides end-to-end monitoring for the mid-market IT environment, along with software and update deployment. VMM 2007 provides centralized administration of your virtual infrastructure and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines.
In summary, the installation requires installing the Essentials 2007 components on a single computer, and VMM 2007 components on another computer. Each product also uses separate database instances.