What's New in System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager

Install a highly available VMM management server

Installing a Highly Available VMM Management Server

Create Run As accounts to provide the necessary credentials for performing operations in VMM

Configuring Run As Accounts in VMM

Use the new capabilities available to the Delegated Administrator and Self-Service User user roles to give users the ability to perform tasks that are new to VMM

Creating User Roles in VMM

Create a Read-Only Administrator user role

Creating User Roles in VMM

Discover physical computers on the network (for example, bare-metal computers), automatically install the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, and convert the computers into managed Hyper-V hosts

Adding Physical Computers as Hyper-V Hosts Overview

Use the VMM console to create a Hyper-V cluster from two or more stand-alone Hyper-V hosts that are managed by VMM

Creating and Modifying Hyper-V Host Clusters in VMM

Use Citrix XenServer as a virtual machine host

Managing Citrix XenServer Overview

Use the VMM console to configure networking resources (for example, logical networks, IP address pools, and load balancers) to be used to deploy virtual machines and services

Configuring Networking Overview

Use the VMM console to configure the storage resources (for example, storage classifications, logical units, and storage pools) to be used by Hyper-V hosts and host clusters

Configuring Storage Overview

Scan servers (for example, Hyper-V hosts and library servers) for update compliance based on an update baseline, view update compliance status, and perform update remediation by using a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server

Managing Fabric Updates in VMM

Perform resource balancing by migrating virtual machines within host clusters that support live migration (Dynamic Optimization)

Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in VMM

Turn off hosts that are not needed to meet resource requirements within a host cluster and then turn the hosts back on when they are needed again (Power Optimization)

Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in VMM

Create a private cloud by combining hosts and networking, storage, and library resources together

Creating a Private Cloud in VMM Overview

Use Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) to sequence applications to be deployed by VMM

Microsoft Server Application Virtualization

Create a custom capability profile to limit the resources that are used by virtual machines that are created in a private cloud

How to Create a Private Cloud from Host Groups

Create an application profile that provides instructions for installing Microsoft Server App-V applications, Microsoft Web Deploy applications, and Microsoft SQL Server data-tier applications (DACs), as well as for running scripts when deploying a virtual machine as part of a service

How to Create an Application Profile

Create a SQL Server profile that provides instructions for customizing an instance of Microsoft SQL Server for a SQL Server DAC application when deploying a virtual machine as part of a service

How to Create a SQL Server Profile

Deploy virtual machines to private clouds by using virtual machine templates

Creating and Deploying Virtual Machines in VMM

Use the Service Template Designer to create service templates that can be used to deploy services

Creating Service Templates in VMM

Deploy services to private clouds or hosts by using a service template

Creating and Deploying Services in VMM

Scale out a service (add additional virtual machines to a deployed service)

Scaling Out a Service in VMM

Update a service (make changes to a deployed service)

Updating a Service in VMM

Export and import service templates (and virtual machine templates)

Exporting and Importing Service Templates in VMM