Microsoft have announced the availability of the Release Candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 as publicly available.
SCVMM will no longer be virtual machine manager tool and will transition to a Service Management and Fabric Management tool, by providing lifecycle management of VMs and the applications inside them.
SCVMM includes Server App-V. Server App-V provides application virtualisation technology for backend services, the technology will also become available as a complementary technology to Windows Azure (PaaS).
Communication with the storage will be supported through the Storage Management Initiative (SMI-S) providers, so that SCVMM will be able to provision LUNs at the cluster level, currently three providers are available NetApp FAS, EMC CX,VMAX and HP EVA (Built-in to HP StorageWorks CommandView EVA 10.0).
The RC introduces the following new features:
- Support for upgrade to RTM when released
- Hyper-V and Cluster Lifecycle Management
- Network Management
- Storage Management
- Update Management
- Power Optimization
- Performance & Resource Optimization (PRO)
- Service Lifecycle Management.
Some pretty nice features I am sure that you will agree.
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