DynamicOps has announced new features for its Virtual Resource Manager (VRM), extending the virtualization management software from servers to desktops. The new features make it easier to organize, create, and control a virtual desktop environment. In addition, VRM 3.1 fully supports Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.

New features of VRM include:

• Extensions that support key virtual desktop components included in Citrix XenDesktop and VMware's virtual desktop infrastructure
• Microsoft's Hyper-V support
• The VRM Infrastructure Organizer, to map an organization's virtual assets into its existing shared infrastructure

VRM automates the management of virtual servers and desktops, from the time they're created until they're decommissioned. Innovations such as VRM's desktop extensions help IT organizations deliver high value and competitive advantages to their customers.

VRM desktop extensions support Citrix XenServer and key components in Citrix XenDesktop, including Citrix Provisioning Server, and Desktop Delivery Controller. In addition to its current support for VMware's ESX server and Virtual Center, early in 2009 DynamicOps will release additional extensions for VMware's just-announced VMware View 3 virtual desktop stack.

VRM, combined with these extensions, allows organizations to deploy virtual desktop environments that can scale to thousands of virtual machines, while reducing operational costs.