Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 Beta Released, available for download.

Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations, a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so you can efficiently and proactively manage your IT environment.

Pre Requisite:

Supported OS:

• Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V
• Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard

Recommended requirements for the server:

• 2.8 GHz or faster processor(s)
• 4 GB of RAM
• 20 GB of available hard disk space (1 GB on the system drive); 150 GB of available hard disk space if planning virtualization management

Essentials console only:

• 1.0 GHz processor
• 512 MB of RAM

Download:
In order to download the particular beta version first you have to register yourself then you’ll be taken to download section. To register and download the version click here.