Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta

Erstaunlich heimlich hat Microsoft eine öffentliche Beta-Version des System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 veröffentlicht:

[Microsoft Download Center: SCVMM 2012 Beta]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/results.aspx?freetext=virtual+machine+2012+beta&displaylang=en&stype=s_basic

Aus der Feature-Liste:

• 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
• 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
• PRO – integrate with System Center Operations Manager to respond to application-level performance monitors
• 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 applica tion packages
• Compose operating system images and applications during service deployment
• 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
• Leverage powerful application virtualization technologies such as Server App-V