System Center virtual machine manager is the heart of the solution and is responsible for delivering IaaS services for the Windows Azure Pack based cloud solution. SCVMM is responsible for provisioning and managing the life cycle of IaaS resources such as virtual machines, virtual networks and so on.

SCVMM manages not only the hypervisor and virtual machines resources but also is responsible for provisioning and managing network and storage resources for cloud virtual machines. SCVMM provides flexibility to integrate with third party network and storage providers for automated provisioning and management. In a nutshell, SCVMM is core resource provider for IaaS offerings for WAP cloud solution.

SCVMM comes as a part of system center suite. WAP communicates with SCVMM for IaaS services via SPF (Service Provider Foundation). In this section we will cover VMM architecture and deployment models along with installation walkthrough.