Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 is Now Available #SysCtr #SystemCenter #SCVMM

Hello folks,

I am glad to share with you that Microsoft just released Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2.

Please find the description of each component that are updated/fixed in System Center 2012 R2 UR9 and the new features added in Virtual Machine Manager particularly:

Virtual Machine Manager (KB3129784):

Enable Dynamic VLAN on the vNIC of a VM With VMM 2012 R2 UR9, you can now enable Dynamic VLANs on the vNICs of a VM. By enabling this parameter on the Logical Network, all the vNICs that are connected to the VM Network on top of the said logical network can have custom VLANs that differ from the ones initially assigned by VMM.  A new PowerShell parameter, AllowDynamicVlanOnVnic, has been introduced to enable Dynamic VLANs on VLAN based Logical Networks. The parameter can be set either during the creation of a new Logical Network or during modification of existing Logical networks.

Sample Usage:

1. Enabling Dynamic VLAN while creating a new Logical Network

New-SCLogicalNetwork –Name ‘Test Logical Network’ –LogicalNetworkDefinitionIsolation –AllowDynamicVlanOnVnic $true

1. Enabling Dynamic VLAN for existing VLAN based Logical Network

$ln = Get-SClogicalNetwork –Name ‘Test Logical Network’

Set-SCLogicalNetwork –LogicalNetwork $ln –AllowDynamicVlanOnVnic $true

1. Disabling Dynamic VLAN for existing VLAN based Logical Network

Set-SCLogicalNetwork –LogicalNetwork $ln –AllowDynamicVlanOnVnic $false

Note: By default –AllowDynamicVlanOnVnic is set to false

Please note that this feature can only be leveraged with CISCO ACI in order to support micro segmentation.

See the following Knowledge Base article for details about these fixes and installation instructions: 3129784 Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.

Components that are fixed in update rollup 9:

Data Protection Manager

See the following Knowledge Base article for details about these fixes and installation instructions:

3112306 Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager.

Operations Manager

See the following Knowledge Base article for details about these fixes and installation instructions:

3129774 Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.

Orchestrator

There are no updates to this component in update rollup 9.

Service Manager

See the following Knowledge Base article for details about these fixes and installation instructions:

3129780 Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager.

Service Reporting

There are no updates to this component in update rollup 9.

Service Provider Foundation

See the following Knowledge Base article for details about these fixes and installation instructions:

3133705 Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 Service Provider Foundation.

Windows Azure Pack

See the following Knowledge Base article for details about these fixes and installation instructions:

3129786 Update Rollup 9 for Windows Azure Pack.

Windows Azure Pack Websites

See the following Knowledge Base article for details about these fixes and installation instructions:

31297869 Update Rollup 9 for Windows Azure Pack Websites.

How to obtain and install Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2?

Please see each KB article above to obtain specific installation instructions for each component.

Warning! Please remember to try the update first in a dev/test environment before you install them in production!

Cheers,
-Charbel