Summary of Virtual Machine Manager news and sessions from Microsoft Ignite 2015

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Ignite was a busy week for the VMM team! If you weren’t able to catch everything we did on-site, you can see a summary of our news and sessions below.
Platform Vision & Strategy (6 of 7): What’s New in System Center for Management
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2459

• Great for an all up view across System Center
• VMM content starts at 26:40

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Technical Overview and Roadmap
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2473

• Overview of features recently available through URs and the Operations Management Suite as well as roadmap and announcements about vNext.

Announcements:

• Initial management of VMware 5.5 in 2012 UR6

vNext announcements:

• Bare metal ease of use improvements
• Rolling upgrade support
• Improved Diff Disk management
• Simplified logical switch creation and deployment
• Guarded host and shielded VM support
• Storage replication automation with ASR
• Improved Storage Monitoring with SCOM
• Software load balancer and network controller support
• CDN support for guests
• SOFS with Storage Spaces Direct and with SAN storage automation
• Storage QoS policy management

Demos:

• User voice
• Azure view in UR6
• Capacity management with the Microsoft Operations Management Suite
• Disaster Recovery using Azure Site Recovery
• Rolling upgrade
• Spaces Direct

Managing and Securing the Fabric
http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3502
Announcements:

• Shielded VM support in VMM
• Mixed mode cluster support in VMM
• Cluster rolling upgrade orchestration through VMM

Demos:

• Creating a shielded VM
• Creating a shielded VM template
• Configuring a guarded host
• Cluster rolling upgrade orchestration through VMM

Managing Storage with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager: A Deep Dive
http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3498
Demos:

• Hyperconverged block storage management
• Managing Scale-out File Server backed by SAN
• Deployment and management of Storage Spaces Direct
• Site to Site Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery
• Site to Azure Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery and NetApp NPS

Deploying Hyper-V Network Virtualization
http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3492

• Great overview of HNV Networking
• Why deploy network virtualization? Value proposition behind deploying network virtualization in the datacenter.
• How to prepare your infrastructure for network virtualization.
• Isolating network traffic and configuring QoS.
• Detailed explanation of the various HNV Gateway roles
• Configuration of Multi-tenancy in the Gateways and Firewall requirements
• Integrating HNV Gateways with your infrastructure
• Insider tips and tricks for making network virtualization really perform

Demos:

• Step-by-step deployment of HNV Networks including NVGRE Gateways!
• Setup Logical Networks
• Setup Static IP Pools
• Create and configure Logical Switches and Port Profiles
• Logical Switch Deployment
• Deployment and configuration of Windows Server 2012 R2 NVGRE NAT Gateway.
• Hidden tips and gotchas with HNV Network Deplyoments
• HNV Diagnostics PowerShell script for validating HNV Gateway deployments and troubleshooting configuration and connectivity issues included in the presentation deck!

Enjoy!

Jonobie Ford | Senior Program Manager | Microsoft
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