Introduction

IP Address Management (IPAM) was introduced as a feature of Windows Server in Windows Server 2012. Microsoft defines IPAM as follows (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/hh831353.aspx):

"…an integrated suite of tools to enable end-to-end planning, deploying, managing and monitoring of your IP address infrastructure, with a rich user experience. IPAM automatically discovers IP address infrastructure servers on your network and enables you to manage them from a central interface."

In Windows Server 2012, IPAM could only integrate with the following:

• Microsoft Windows DHCP Servers
• Microsoft Windows DNS Servers
• Microsoft Windows Network Policy Servers
• Active Directory Domain Controllers

The minimum version of Windows Server that IPAM will communicate with is Windows Server 2008.

With the introduction of Windows Server 2012 R2, IPAM is able to communicate with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager so that IT administrators can get a complete view of their...