Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) was released as an independent product for managing virtualized workload for virtual machine deployment, management, and maintenance. VMM started providing support for Microsoft hypervisor (Hyper-V), VMware, and Citrix XenServer. If we talk about Hyper-V in particular, VMM introduced a number of features for the management of Hyper-V virtualized workload that were not available with the native tools to manage the Hyper-V virtual machines. With all these capabilities, VMM started getting a good amount of attention from the industry and also helped Hyper-V as a new product available in the market gain customer trust and market share

Virtual Machine Manager has five major components of architecture, as follows:

Let's understand each of the these key components of VMM in detail.