Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager released

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager recently

Update Rollup – Features

The Update Rollup 8 for SCVMM is shipping with 7 new features:

• Support for SQL Server 2014 SP1 as VMM database
• Support for VMWare vCenter 6.0 management scenarios
• Ability to set quotas for external IP addresses
• Support for quotas for checkpoints
• Ability to configure static network adapter MAC address during operating system deployment
• Ability to deploy Extended Hyper-V Port ACLs
• Support for storage space tiering in VMM

Update Rollup – Fixes

With UR 8 there are 16 current issues fixed:

• SMB connection limit when deploying VMs on NetApp 8.2.3 (or later)
• V2V issue between ESX and Hyper-V
• deleting a virtual network does not correctly clean up the cluster resources…
• …

The full list and a detailed description is in KB!

Installation

Update packages for Virtual Machine Manager are available from Windows Update or by manual download.

Performing an update to Update Rollup 8 on the VMM server requires installing both the VMM Console and Server updates. These are separate downloads

IMPORTANT

You know…read the […] Manual and never forget to backup 😉