Last week Microsoft released Update Rollup 7 (UR7) for System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure Pack. And as always, Update Rollup 7 does not only include a bunch of fixes, it also includes some new features. This time especially Windows Azure Pack and System Center Virtual Machine Manager got some nice updates. Components that are fixed and updated in this update rollup
- Data Protection Manager (3065246)
- Support for Windows 10 Client operating system
- Ability to use an alternative DPM server to recover from Azure Backup Vault
- Improvements for backup on Hyper-V Replica VMs
- Other improvements and fixes…
- Orchestrator & SMA (3069115)
- Orchestrator: some small fixes
- SMA
- SMA runbook execution fails if a PowerShell execution policy is set to Unrestricted through a Group Policy Object.
- Fixed an error when you try to save or import a runbook in SMA
- Operations Manager (will be released later)
- The rollup is delayed by few weeks, as engineering team is working on recently reported issues.
- Service Manager (3063263)
- Service Provider Foundation (3069355)
- This update includes general API changes to improve product quality.
- Virtual Machine Manager (3066340)
- Support for Windows 10 Client Operating System
- Support for new Linux Operating Systems (Debian 8)
- Support for VMWare vCenter 5.5 management scenarios (more infos VMWare vCenter 5.5 management scenarios)
- Support for Multiple External IP Addresses per Virtual Network
- Option to Reassociate Orphaned virtual machines to their Service or VM role
- Support for VMM DHCP Extension PXE/TFP Forwarding
- Some scale improvements if you have more than 50 Hyper-V Hosts
- Some Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) fixes and improvements
- Other fixes…
- Windows Azure Pack (3069121)
- Tenants cannot delete the checkpoints of their virtual machines
- Support for VM names of up to 15 characters
- Displaying VHD items during virtual machine creation when there are no hardware profiles in the plan
- Incompatible VHDs are offered to the tenant when attaching a VHD to a virtual machine
- Support for tenant plan viewing and self-subscription permission based on security groups
- Support for Shielded Virtual Machine Management when it’s run on Windows Server 2016 Preview
- Virtual Machine performance data displayed in the tenant portal
- Other fixes and improvements…
- Windows Azure Pack Web Sites (3069358)
- Adds support for IPv6 to IP SSL functionality
- Changes Web Deploy publishing from publish.domain.com to site.scm.domain.com.
- Other fixes and improvements…
One of the new features I want to highlight is the possibility to add multiple public (external) IP addresses to Virtual Network (Using Hyper-V Network Virtualization HVN). This means a tenant can assign multiple public IP addresses on his NAT gateway and do port forwarding, for example if he runs multiple webservers in that VM Network. This is a feature a lot of customers especially service provider have missed for a long time.
Another improvement we can see is the support for the next release of Windows Server and also support for Windows 10.
Tags: Azure, Azure Pack, Cloud, HVN, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Network Virtualization, NVGRE, Operations Manager, Private Cloud, SMA, System Center, System Center 2012 R2, update, Update Rollup, Update Rollup 7, UR, UR7, Virtual Machine Manager, VMM, Windows Azure Pack Last modified: August 5, 2015
How do you actually assign the additional Public IPs to a tenant ? from VMM or from ServiceportaL?
Both :)
Ok where? The Kb clearly states that this must be done in PS. I can not see this setting anywhere from either of the two Gui.
I can´t figure out how to add additional public IPs. Did you use the Powershell commands that were in the KB?