Virtual Machine Manager 2012 est la pierre angulaire de notre offre de Cloud privé. Il permet aux équipes informatiques d’assembler les composants du Cloud, (serveurs, stockage, CPU, réseau), et d’allouer, déléguer et déployer cette capacité sous forme de Couds, alloués à différents départements dans leur entreprise.  VMM permet également de déployer les applications et les services au sein de Clouds privés.

Aujourd'hui VMM 2012 est disponible en version Beta sur Microsoft Connect, voici les nouveautés :

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 application 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

Téléchargez la Beta de VMM 2012 maintenant au format VHD sur Microsoft Download Center ! 
Et voici le lien pour la librairie TechNet : SCVMM 2012 TechNet Library