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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

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• 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

1. Download the self-extracting VMM.EVALVHD.part01.exe file and the all other “.rar” files
2. Download the “Evaluating System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager by Using a Pre-Configured VHD.docx step-by-step instructions for how to use the VHD to create a virtual machine
3. Place all downloaded files in the same directory
4. Double-click the self-extracting VMM.EVALVHD.part01.exe file to extract the VHD file
5. Follow the instructions on the “Evaluating System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager by Using a Pre-Configured VHD.docx” file to complete the setup of VMM