<p>System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC– Evaluation开放下载</p>
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                <p>System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 已经推出2012的RC版了~离上是应该不远了，相关新功能如下</p>  <ul>   <li>

Fabric Management

  • Setup Upgrade
    • *New in RC -Upgrade- Setup will support the following upgrade paths:
      • VMM 2008 R2 SP1 --SC VMM 2012 RC – SC VMM 2012 RTM
      • SC VMM 2012 RC – SC VMM 2012 RTM
  • Hyper-V and Cluster Lifecycle Management – Deploy Hyper-V to bare metal server, create Hyper-V clusters, orchestrate patching of a Hyper-V Cluster
    • *New in RC:
      • ISO or CD-based OSD for environments with DHCP without WDS
      • OSD will now convert dynamic to fixed type of VHD destination
      • All network adapters on host can be configured during provisioning
    • *New in RC:
      • Ability to bypass cluster validation during cluster creation
      • Run cluster validation reports on-demand
      • New Cluster status tab to view an aggregated status and a cluster validation report
      • Ability to see current CSV owner in the properties of the 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
    • *New in RC:
      • Simplification of the logical networks in the Fabric workspace
      • Ability to see IP addresses that are in use from a IP pool
      • Added support for Microsoft Network Load Balancer
      • Gateway and DNS are no longer mandatory fields for logical networks
      • Load balancer can now support affinity to logical networks
  • Storage Management – Classify Storage, Manage Storage Pools and LUNs
    • *New in RC
      • Create persistent sessions to iSCSI array and logon initiator to array
      • Better scalability of storage operations - LUN create, snapshot, clone, masking, and unmasking
      • Option to create storage groups per cluster (BETA only supported creation of storage group per node in a cluster)
      • Enablement of MPIO feature when provisioning a new Hyper-V server
      • Automatic MPIO device claim
      • Support for arrays that implement OnePortPerView
  • Update Management- Keep your VMM Fabric Servers (VMM roles, hosts, and clusters) up-to-date with patches.
    • *New in RC:
      • Share a WSUS root server between System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2/ System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta
      • Hyper-V Cluster Orchestration- Nodes put into VMM Maintenance Mode can be set to trigger Maintenance Mode in Operations Manager.
  • Resource Optimization
    • Dynamic Optimization – proactively balance the load of VMs across a cluster
    • Power Optimization – schedule power savings to use the right number of hosts to run your workloads – power the rest off until they are needed.
      • *New in RC:
        • Set Operations Manager Mode for powered down hosts
    • PRO – integrate with System Center Operations Manager to respond to application-level performance monitors.
      • *New in RC:
        • Support added for System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta
        • VMM will ship two sample PRO Packs: Cluster scale out and Service scale out MPs

  • Cloud Management
    • Abstract server, network and storage resources into private clouds
    • Delegate access to private clouds with control of capacity, capabilities and user quotas
    • Enable self-service usage for application administrator to author, deploy, manage and decommission applications in the private cloud

  • Service Lifecycle Management
    • Define service templates to create sets of connected virtual machines, OS images and application packages
      • *New in RC:
        • Service Designer and Specialization UI enhancements
        • Added ability to use Service Template Patterns
    • Compose operating system images and applications during service deployment
      • *New in RC:
        • IP-based provisioning
        • New application instance view
    • Scale out the number of virtual machines in a service
    • Service performance and health monitoring integrated with System Center Operations Manager
    • Decouple OS image and application updates through image-based servicing
      • *New in RC:
        • Streamlined ability to enable OS VHD updates to a Service Template
        • Publish updated Service Templates in order to update Service Instances
    • Leverage powerful application virtualization technologies such as Server App-V

    • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC– Evaluation

    http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27252

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta – Evaluation

    http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=609

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012：VMM 获得重大升级

    http://technet.microsoft.com/zh-tw/magazine/hh300651.aspx



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