Hi Ken, and thanks for your great blog! We met in Redmond at the end of July and beginning of August, during the first RTM version of the Monitoring a MSFT Private Cloud class. I'm just preparing now to teach the complement to that class, the "Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with Microsoft System Center 2012". We will need to revise both classes to include SP1 as well as Windows Server 2012, as soon as we can!
Some great technologies are converging right now. -- Mark