On March 21st 2011, Microsoft Management Summit 2011 will kick off in Las Vegas, sold out with about 5000 visitors. Of course a great deal of focus will be on Hyper-V private cloud, Azure public cloud and those parts of System Center that manage the private, public or even hybrid cloud.

Although I have already spent a full day on VMM 2012 during MVP Summit two weeks ago, I will definitely visit the majority of presentations on this topic.

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VMM 2012 promises to become an extremely feature-laden product, ranging from managing existing Hyper-V clusters (more or less as you do now with VMM 2008 R2) to Bare Metal Deployment of multiple physical servers prepared for Hyper-V R2 and creating Hyper-V R2 clusters as an integrated function in the product.

For groundwork you will be able to discover storage via SMI-S providers (and VDS for backward compatibility), and create and present LUNs all from VMM 2012. Also networks can be defined and assigned to candidate Hyper-V servers.

From there onwards only a few clicks are necessary to create a private cloud and assign a number of server, storage and network resources to that cloud. A delegated cloud administrator will be abstracted from the hardware and can take it over from there.

As you can imagine, this is only the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more to VMM 2012 than meets the eye. So if you want to follow what is going on in management of Microsoft Virtualization land, keep a close watch on the live streams (of the keynotes by Brad Anderson) and hopefully the recorded sessions will be made available soon. You can always follow the MMS related Twitter feed #mms2011

Update 22 March 2011: As far as I know the keynotes will not be live streamed but made available after the event

Here are a list of sessions related to server virtualization and private cloud:

  • BD02 Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: SP1 Deep Dive – Advanced Troubleshooting by Michael Michael (M2)
  • BD03 Virtual Machine Manager 2012: What’s In It and How It Enables Building Private Clouds and Federation of Public Clouds by James Crompton and Vishwa Kumbalimutt
  • BD04 Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Deployment, Planning, Upgrade by Greg Cusanza and Krishnan Gopalan
  • BD05 Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Server Fabric Lifecycle – Part 1 of 3 – Configuring Networking and Storage by Nitin Bhat
  • BD06 Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Server Fabric Lifecycle – Part 2 of 3 – OSD, OOB and Agent Management by Greg Cusanza and Lee Cheng
  • BD07 Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Server Fabric Lifecycle – Part 3 of 3 – Cluster Creation, Update Management by Carmen Summers and Kenon Owens
  • BH03 Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Modeling and Maintaining Virtualized Services in VMM 2012 by Amit Virmani and Nitin Bhat
  • BH04 Cloud Management with System Center by David Armour and Vijay Tewari
  • BH07 Private Cloud Strategy and Vision by Peter Meister
  • BH08 Hyper-V Cloud Services – Delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service on the Microsoft platform by Travis Gerber
  • BH11 Self Service for the Private Cloud by Suveen Kumar Reddy Vuppala
  • BH13 Best Practices for Private Cloud Implementation by Peter Meister
  • BH31 Hey! You! Get Off My Cloud! – Exploit Protection for your Virtual Infrastructure by Erdal Ozkaya
  • BK03 HP and Microsoft Tackle the Private Cloud Together by Brad Kirby
  • BK04 Anatomy of HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V by Brad Kirby

 

Other sources for VMM 2012:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/zdnet-uk-first-take-10013312/microsoft-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-10021598/

http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=10947

http://up2v.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/scvmm-2012-private-clouds-and-services/