Category: Hyper-V

Windows Server 2012 Jump Start Course Available Online

Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure by Gartner

Gartner is one of the most respectful sources in IT for data and analysis. Every year they release a Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Infrastructure. It seems Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM are becoming a steady leader in this. For full information please read the article.

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2

The second community technology preview of SP1 for System Center 2012 is out. Actually this is not an ordinary Service Pack, Microsoft is actually adding more and more features to System Center 2012:

  • Virtual Machine Manager
    • Improved Support for Network Virtualization
    • Extend the VMM console with Add-ins
    • Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units and discovery of SAS storage
    • Ability to convert VHD to VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image
  • Configuration Manager
    • Support for Windows 8
    • Support for Mac OS clients
    • Support for Linux and Unix servers
  • Data Protection Manager
    • Improved backup performance of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0
    • Protection for Hyper-V over remote SMB share
    • Protection for Windows Server 2012 de-duplicated volumes
    • Uninterrupted protection for VM live migration
  • App Controller
    • Service Provider Foundation API to create and operate Virtual Machines
    • Support for Azure VM; migrate VHDs from VMM to Windows Azure, manage from on-premise System Center
  • Operations Manager
    • Support for IIS 8
    • Monitoring of WCF, MVC and .NET NT services
    • Azure SDK support
  • Orchestrator
    • Additional support for Integration Packs, including 3rd party
    • Manage VMM self-service User Roles
    • Manage multiple VMM ‘stamps’ (scale units), aggregate results from multiple stamps
    • Integration with App Controller to consume Hosted clouds
  • Service Manager
    • Apply price sheets to VMM clouds
    • Create chargeback reports
    • Pivot by cost center, VMM clouds, Pricesheets
  • Server App-V
    • Support for applications that create scheduled tasks during packaging
    • Create virtual application packages from applications installed remotely on native server

If you want to try CTP 2 in test environment download it from here.

Free “Enterprise Virtual Machine Discovery Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and 2012 (SCOM)” by Infront

Infront Consulting is providing free MP to the community. This MP is very useful if you have virtualization infrastructure with Hyper-V, VmWare or Citrix XenServer. Read the full capabilities of the MP and find download link on this article.

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster

From time to time Microsoft offers Posters of some of their technologies. These posters describe with words and diagrams how certain technologies works and features that offers. Just published is the Hyper-V poster for Server 2012. Download it and print it from here.