TechEd Europe 2013 SCVMM R2 Session

After joining a session on ConfigMgr and Intune, which brought me nothing new, I joined a session on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B357#fbid=hBjzVKd6xg9 ).

There is some interesting new stuff in SCVMM2012R2:

• Apart from SC AppController for Self-Service there is the Windows Azure Pack. WAP gives the look and feel of Azure but is targeted at your Private Cloud.
• Cisco now provides a Virtual Nexus 1000 Switch (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns955/ns963/solution_overview_c22-687087.html ) for Virtual Networks based on Hyper-V.
• VMM R2 will provide a Gateway out-of-the-box with the Border Gateway Protocol.
• There will be Service Templates for all System Center Components (sounds like a deeper development of the Powershell Deployment Toolkit)
• Guest Cluster can now use a VHDX as shared storage (as long as the VHDX resides on a CSV Cluster).
• VMM R2 can manage Physical Switches.
• I already mentioned in yesterdays’ Blogpost the Azure Hyper-V Replica Manager for orchestrating a failover to a DR Site.

Pretty neat features for a R2 release!

I’ll be back tomorrow.

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Tags: Cloud Computing, Server 2012, TechEd Europe 2013, Windows Azure

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