System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC– Evaluation開放下載

2011-09-16

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 已經推出2012的RC版了~離上是應該不遠了，相關新功能如下

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

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