Summary of Virtual Machine Manager news and sessions from Microsoft Ignite 2015

System-Center-Team · ‎Feb 16 2019

First published on TECHNET on May 22, 2015

Ignite was a busy week for the VMM team! If you weren’t able to catch everything we did on-site, you can see a summary of our news and sessions below.

Platform Vision & Strategy (6 of 7): What’s New in System Center for Management

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2459

Great for an all up view across System Center
VMM content starts at 26:40

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Technical Overview and Roadmap

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2473

Overview of features recently available through URs and the Operations Management Suite as well as roadmap and announcements about vNext.

Announcements:

Initial management of VMware 5.5 in 2012 UR6

vNext announcements:

Bare metal ease of use improvements
Rolling upgrade support
Improved Diff Disk management
Simplified logical switch creation and deployment
Guarded host and shielded VM support
Storage replication automation with ASR
Improved Storage Monitoring with SCOM
Software load balancer and network controller support
CDN support for guests
SOFS with Storage Spaces Direct and with SAN storage automation
Storage QoS policy management

Demos:

User voice
Azure view in UR6
Capacity management with the Microsoft Operations Management Suite
Disaster Recovery using Azure Site Recovery
Rolling upgrade
Spaces Direct

Managing and Securing the Fabric

https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3502

Announcements:

Shielded VM support in VMM
Mixed mode cluster support in VMM
Cluster rolling upgrade orchestration through VMM

Demos:

Creating a shielded VM
Creating a shielded VM template
Configuring a guarded host
Cluster rolling upgrade orchestration through VMM

Managing Storage with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager: A Deep Dive

https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3498

Demos:

Hyperconverged block storage management
Managing Scale-out File Server backed by SAN
Deployment and management of Storage Spaces Direct
Site to Site Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery
Site to Azure Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery and NetApp NPS

Deploying Hyper-V Network Virtualization

https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3492

Great overview of HNV Networking
Why deploy network virtualization? Value proposition behind deploying network virtualization in the datacenter.
How to prepare your infrastructure for network virtualization.
Isolating network traffic and configuring QoS.
Detailed explanation of the various HNV Gateway roles
Configuration of Multi-tenancy in the Gateways and Firewall requirements
Integrating HNV Gateways with your infrastructure
Insider tips and tricks for making network virtualization really perform

Demos:

Step-by-step deployment of HNV Networks including NVGRE Gateways!
Setup Logical Networks
Setup Static IP Pools
Create and configure Logical Switches and Port Profiles
Logical Switch Deployment
Deployment and configuration of Windows Server 2012 R2 NVGRE NAT Gateway.
Hidden tips and gotchas with HNV Network Deplyoments
HNV Diagnostics PowerShell script for validating HNV Gateway deployments and troubleshooting configuration and connectivity issues included in the presentation deck!

Enjoy!

Jonobie Ford | Senior Program Manager | Microsoft

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