System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self Service Portal 2.0 SP1 Beta–Now Available
Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self Service Portal 2.0 SP1 Beta, you can respond more effectively—and at a lower cost—to the rapidly changing needs of your organization. Built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, VMMSSP 2.0 SP1 Beta enables you to offer infrastructure as a service.
It includes a pre-built, role-based self-service portal for both the datacenter managers and business unit IT consumers to provision infrastructure for their applications and services. This dynamic portal provides automated workflows to onboard business unit IT departments, and enables partners to expose their unique hardware capabilities through familiar Microsoft scripting technologies.
What’s new with VMMSSP 2.0 SP1?
Import virtual machines: Allows DCIT (Datacenter) administrators to re-import virtual machines that were removed from the self-service portal and also import virtual machines created outside the portal but managed by VMM.
Expire virtual machines: This feature provides the user the ability to set an expiration date for the virtual machines that are being created or imported so that the virtual machines auto-delete after the set date. This feature also provides users the flexibility (through role-based access) to set or change the expiration date for the virtual machine.
Notify administrators: This feature provides functionality to notify BUIT(Business Unit) or DCIT(Datacenter) administrators about various events in the system (for example, Submit request, Approve request,Expire virtual machine, and so on) via email through SQL server mail integration.
Move infrastructure between business units: This feature allows DCIT(Datacenter) administrators to move an infrastructure from one business unit to another when the system is in Maintenance Mode.
Management pack : This feature allows DCIT administrators to monitor health of the Self-Service portal components
