The VMM team is proud to announce the public availability of the Release Candidate for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM)!
FEEDBACK
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DOWNLOADS
This folder contains a pre-configured VHD to aid in the evaluation of the Release Candidate. It is optional to use this VHD or do a full install of VMM 2012 RC. The VHD has all the necessary software already installed, including the following:
For documentation about the VMM 2012 RC, see System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 on TechNet.
Load Balancer Providers
Storage Providers
Partner |
Version |
Array |
Link |
Comments |
EMC |
4.3 |
CX, VMAX |
|
Registration Required |
HP |
10.0 |
EVA |
Built-in to HP StorageWorks CommandView EVA 10.0 |
Requires SMI-S CIMOM to enabled |
NetApp |
4.0 |
FAS |
|
Registration Required |
FEATURE SUMMARY
As with the previous release there are a number of improved features for you. With this release you will be able to do:
- VMM 2008 R2 SP1 > VMM 2012 RC > VMM 2012 RTM
- VMM 2012 RC > VMM 2012 RTM
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Set Operations Manager Mode for powered down hosts
- Support added for System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta
- VMM will ship two sample PRO Packs: Cluster scale out and Service scale out MPs
- Service Designer and Specialization UI enhancements
- Added ability to use Service Template Patterns
- IP-based provisioning
- New application instance view
- Streamlined ability to enable OS VHD updates to a Service Template
- Publish updated Service Templates in order to update Service Instances
The VMM Team
App-V Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
AVIcode Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/avicode
ConfigMgr Support Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/
DPM Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/
MED-V Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
OOB Support Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/oob/
Opalis Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/opalis
Orchestrator Support Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
OpsMgr Support Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/
SCMDM Support Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/mdm/
SCVMM Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm
Server App-V Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv
Service Manager Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager
System Center Essentials Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenteressentials
WSUS Support Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/sus/
scvmm 2012
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