Finally, after much time and many installments, we finally come to the last two components that make up System Center 2012!  In this post, I'll cover Unified Installer and Virtual Machine Manager.  As usual, I will focus on the self-study material that is freely available from Microsoft so that you and your team can get up to speed on these important technologies.  Once again, to help those who might not fully understand the purpose of the two components under consideration in this post, let me start with a brief definition of each:

Unified Installer - "You run the Unified Installer to deploy System Center 2012 components. After you select a System Center 2012 component to install, the Unified Installer prompts you for the prerequisites that the component requires. Then, the Unified Installer installs the component and its prerequisites."

Virtual Machine Manager - "System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a management solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources in order to create and deploy virtual machines and services to private clouds that you have created."

 

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    • Release Notes for System Center 2012 - Unified Installer
      • System Requirements for System Center 2012 - Unified Installer
      • Preparing an Installer Computer for System Center 2012 - Unified Installer
      • Preparing a Target Computer for System Center 2012 - Unified Installer
      • Running the System Center 2012 - Unified Installer
      • Log Files in System Center 2012 - Unified Installer
    • Microsoft System Center 2012 - Unified Installer Privacy Statement
    • Microsoft System Center 2012 - Unified Installer Supported Configurations
    • Microsoft System Center 2012 - Unified Installer Next Steps

 

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