As we know the world of IT has been evolving to a more virtual centric model and Microsoft has been evolving its product line to fit into this world.  As advances in Microsoft’s Hyper-V came in Windows 2008R2 and new features like Dynaic memory and Remote FX in Windows 2008 R2 SP1. Microsoft has evolved its enterprise virtual management with VMM 2012 which will be dramtically improved over the pervious release of VMM 2008 R2.

You can download a copy of the Beta from the link below:

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/virtual-machine-manager/vm-vnext-beta.aspx

Some New Features:

1. Support to manage Citrix Zen Server, VmWare ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V

2. Bare Metal Hyper-V cluster building

3. Service Templates

4. Intergration with SQL DAC packages, IIS Web Deploy, and Server App-V

5. VM roles installtions i.e installing IIS on a VM

6. Intergrates with a variety of storage vendors to auto provision storage

7. Intergation with load balancers to automate configuration

8.  Patch compliace for Hyper-V and VMM nodes

9.  Read Only Conscole delegation

10.  Self Service user conscole access

11.  Intergration with WDS and WSUS

12. Clustering of the VMM Server role

13. Importing/Exporting Templates

14. More……