System Center 2012 SP1 (currently in CTP2) includes the following update and enhancements to the following System Center 2012 components:
- Virtual Machine Manager
- Improved Support for Network
Virtualization - Extend the VMM console with
Add-ins - Support for Windows
Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical
units and discovery of SAS storage - Ability to convert VHD to
VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image
- Improved Support for Network
- Configuration Manager
- Support for Windows 8
- Ability to deploy Windows 8
Apps - Real-time administrative
actions for Endpoint Protection related tasks
- Data Protection Manager
- Improved backup performance
of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0 - Protection for Hyper-V over
remote SMB share - Protection for Windows
Server 2012 de-duplicated volumes - Uninterrupted protection for
VM live migration
- Improved backup performance
- App Controller
- Service Provider Foundation
API to create and operate Virtual Machines - Support for Azure VM;
migrate VHDs from VMM to Windows Azure, manage from on-premise System
Center
- Service Provider Foundation
- Operations Manager
- Support for IIS 8
- Monitoring of WCF, MVC and
.NET NT services - Azure SDK support
- Orchestrator
- Support for Integration
Packs, including 3rd party - Manage VMM self-service User
Roles - Manage multiple VMM ‘stamps’
(scale units), aggregate results from multiple stamps - Integration with App
Controller to consume Hosted clouds
- Support for Integration
- Service Manager
- Apply price sheets to VMM
clouds - Create chargeback reports
- Pivot by cost center, VMM
clouds, Pricesheets
- Apply price sheets to VMM
- Server App-V
- Support for applications
that create scheduled tasks during packaging - Create virtual application
packages from applications installed remotely on native server
- Support for applications