Tag: service pack 1

SCVMM Maintenance mode for host does not put the computer object in maintenance mode in SCOM reported as fixed in SC 2012 SP1

Last week I’ve submitted a bug on a feature of SCVMM that I’ve spotted a long time ago. Due to various reasons I’ve somehow always forgot to submit it. The bug is that when you integrate SCOM 2012 and SCVMM 2012 you can put the Hyper-V host in maintenance mode in VMM and this will automatically put the Hyper-V host in maintenance mode in SCOM. This is true but to some extent. Actually only the objects in SCOM related to SCVMM are put in maintenance mode. What this means if you put the Hyper-V host in maintenance mode trough SCVMM and you restart that host you will still receive alerts like health service failure or failed to connect from SCOM about that host. The reason for that is if only objects related to VMM are put in maintenance mode other objects like the computer object, the health service and the agent watcher are still in active monitoring. A few days after submitting that bug in Microsoft Connect site I’ve received e-mail that this bug is closed as fixed:

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As this issue is still present in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 beta this leads me to believe that there are probably post beta releases for TAP customers which are not publically available. In a matter of fact there are some rumors over Internet that System Center 2012 SP1 has passed RTM and could be available early in January. I really hope so these rumors are true so we can have final release of Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 as soon as possible. When RTM is available I will try to test if this bug is really fixed.

Orchestrator and Service Provider Foundation

If you want to know about the new feature in System Center 2012 SP1 named Service Provider Foundation there is a great article on Technet Wiki. The title of the article is Cloud Resource Management with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – Orchestrator and Service Provider Foundation.

SQL Server 2012 SP1 is available

Microsoft released service pack 1 for SQL Server 2012. The service pack contains CU1 and CU2.

System Center 2012 SP1 BETA is now available

Great news we now have beta version that we can test and provide feedback. From what I hear is that RTM could be available before end of the year or early next year. The downloads are located here. Some of the new features are:

  • 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
    • Deployment and management of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
    • Distribution point for Windows Azure to help reduce infrastructure costs
    • Automation of administrative tasks through PowerShell support
    • Management of Mac OS X clients and Linux and UNIX servers
    • Real-time administrative actions for Endpoint Protection related tasks
  • 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
    • 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

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Community Technology Preview 2 – Service Provider Foundation Update for Service Management API available for download

This preview provides a subset of the Service Provider Foundation API that is included with System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2. It should only be used in conjunction with the installable components of the Service Management API and “Virtual Machines” scenario on Windows Server. You can download it from here.