Hi all,
Great, all content of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta is available!!!
What's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta:
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 is a management
solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and
manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources in
order to create and deploy virtual machines and services to private
clouds that you have created.
What's new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta:
With this release you will be able to do:
- Fabric Management
- Hyper-V and Cluster Lifecycle
Management – Deploy Hyper-V to bare metal server, create Hyper-V
clusters, orchestrate patching of a Hyper-V Cluster
- Third Party Virtualization Platforms - Add and Manage Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters
- Network Management – Manage IP Address Pools, MAC Address Pools and Load Balancers
- Storage Management – Classify storage, Manage Storage Pools and LUNs
- Resource Optimization
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Dynamic Optimization – proactively balance the load of VMs across a cluster
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Power Optimization – schedule power
savings to use the right number of hosts to run your workloads – power
the rest off until they are needed.
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PRO – integrate with System Center Operations Manager to respond to application-level performance monitors.
- Cloud Management
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Abstract server, network and storage resources into private clouds
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Delegate access to private clouds with control of capacity, capabilities and user quotas
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Enable self-service usage for
application administrator to author, deploy, manage and decommission
applications in the private cloud
- Service Lifecycle Management
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Define service templates to create sets of connected virtual machines, OS images and application packages
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Compose operating system images and applications during service deployment
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Scale out the number of virtual machines in a service
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Service performance and health monitoring integrated with System Center Operations Manager
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Decouple OS image and application updates through image-based servicing.
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Leverage powerful application virtualization technologies such as Server App-V
Production Support: The SCVMM 2012 Beta release is NOT supported for deployment into production environments
Some link very interesting under:
And more of the themes coming in the near future:
- VMM 2012 OOB and OSD
- VMM 2012 Provision a Cluster
- VMM 2012 Private Cloud - Create a Private Cloud/Delegate a Private Cloud/
- VMM 2012 PRO/Monitoring/Reporting
- VMM 2012 Xen Support
- VMM 2012 Dynamic Optimization
- VMM 2012 Update Management- Hyper-V Orchestrated Cluster Patching
- VMM 2012 Library- Creating and Using Resource Groups
- VMM 2012 Services Overview
- VMM 2012 Creating Virtual Application Packages with Microsoft Virtualization Sequencer
- VMM 2012 Service Templates
- VMM 2012 Service Deployment
- VMM 2012 Service Servicing
- VMM 2012 Service Template Import/Export
- VMM 2012 Service Deployment – Troubleshooting Tips
- VMM 2012 Service Scale in/Scale Out