Download System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager – Evaluation (VHD) from Official Microsoft Download Center

• System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager delivers industry leading fabric management, virtual machine management and services deployment in private cloud environments. System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager offers key new features that include hypervisor creation and management, network management, storage management, private cloud creation, self-service usage and service creation. It features deep investments in server application virtualization, service design and service modeling all of which can be used to efficiently offer an on-premises private cloud.
  
  Feature Summary
  • Fabric Management
  • Hyper-V and Cluster Lifecycle Management – Deploy Hyper-V to bare metal server, create Hyper-V clusters, orchestrate patching of a Hyper-V Cluster
  • Third Party Virtualization Platforms - Add and Manage Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters
  • Network Management – Manage IP Address Pools, MAC Address Pools and Load Balancers
  • Storage Management – Classify storage, Manage Storage Pools and LUNs
  • Resource Optimization
  • Dynamic Optimization – proactively balance the load of VMs across a cluster
  • Power Optimization – schedule power savings to use the right number of hosts to run your workloads – power the rest off until they are needed
  • PRO – integrate with System Center Operations Manager to respond to application-level performance monitors
  • Cloud Management
  • Abstract server, network and storage resources into private clouds
  • Delegate access to private clouds with control of capacity, capabilities and user quotas
  • Enable self-service usage for application administrator to author, deploy, manage and decommission applications in the private cloud
  • Service Lifecycle Management
  • Define service templates to create sets of connected virtual machines, os images and applica tion packages
  • Compose operating system images and applications during service deployment
  • Scale out the number of virtual machines in a service
  • Service performance and health monitoring integrated with System Center Operations Manager
  • Decouple OS image and application updates through image-based servicing
  • Leverage powerful application virtualization technologies such as Server App-V

Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

• • Windows Server 2008 R2 (full installation) Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter x64
  • Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate x32, x64
  • Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0
  • Windows PowerShell 2.0
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  • Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7
  • SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
  • Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – (Version on Windows Server 2008 R2)
  • Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 64bit