最近SQL Server 2012正式发布，虽然目前无法正式销售，需要到7月1日以后才能有价格。但相信SQL Server 2012的不少新特性已经让大家跃跃欲试。像 Exchange Server 2010的高可用性(DAG)一样，SQL Server 2012也整合了以前所具有的几种高可用性功能，实现了新的高可用性技术，我们称为 AlwaysOn，一个类似于DAG的技术。

    很多朋友在考虑SQL Server数据库高可用性的时候，一定会考虑群集方案，但实际部署会遇到很多难题，其中部署过程就非常让人头疼。

    SQL Server 2012 的AlwaysOn同样需要利用到Windows Server Failover Cluster技术，但步骤较先前方式简单很多。

    具体SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn的实现，请各位参考附件的文档。

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    Enjoy!

    Justin Gao

    Microsoft (China)

    Hi All :

    System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 availability , you can download them from this link : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30133

    This Community Technology Preview (“CTP2”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. CTP2 includes updates 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
  • Support for latest versions of XenServer, vSphere
• Configuration Manager
  • Support for Windows 8
  • Support for Mac OS clients
  • Support for Linux and Unix servers
• 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
• 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
• Operations Manager
  • Support for IIS 8
  • Monitoring of WCF, MVC and .NET NT services
  • Azure SDK support
• Orchestrator
  • Additional 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
• Service Manager
  • Apply price sheets to VMM clouds
  • Create chargeback reports
  • Pivot by cost center, VMM clouds, Pricesheets
• Server App-V
  • Support for applications that create scheduled tasks during packaging
  • Create virtual application packages from applications installed remotely on
    native server

       Enjoy !

       Justin Gao

       Microsoft (China)

   Hi all :

   When you finished System Center 2012 cloud services process pack deployment , you need to create VMM , OM and Orchestrator connector , create and configure cost center and so on .

   More details , please reference this document .

   Enjoy!

   Justin Gao

   Microsoft (China)

   Hi All :

   About one month ago , I posted a blog introduce how to deploy System Center 2012 Operations Manager RTM in a signle server environment , it's very easy and smoothly .

   But based on different customers environment or requirments , you should to design and deploy SC2012 OM on a distributed environment .

   This document will to show your how to deploy SC2012 Operations Manager RTM on a distributed environment .

    Enjoy !

    Justin Gao

    Microsoft (China)

    Hi All :

    Now , we are officially hit Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate , we've got one last round of scale updates for Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V.

This is in addition to the huge scalability updates we already at announced at beta for Windows Server 2012 which are:

• Up to 1 TB of memory per VM
• Up to 64 TB per virtual disk
  • And up to 255 virtual disks per VM for a maximum of up 16,320 TB (or 15.93 Petabytes) per virtual machine
  • Up to 64 nodes in a cluster
  • Up to 4000 VMs in a cluster

   You can download Windows Server 2012 RC from : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/2012-server-virtualization.aspx

   Enjoy !

   Justin Gao

   Microsoft (China)