Download the Evaluation: Microsoft System Center 2012 R2
With optional Windows Server 2012 R2
System Center 2012 R2 delivers unified management across on-premises, service provider and Windows Azure environments, in a manner thatâs simple and cost-effective, application focused, and enterprise-class. System Center 2012 R2 offers exciting new features and enhancements across infrastructure provisioning, infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, automation & self-service, and IT service management.
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Technical Resources
Access technical product resourcesâsuch as evaluation guides, virtual labs, training courses, and forumsâat the
System Center 2012 R2 Resource Page.
Benefits
Hybrid IT: Consistent with the notion of Cloud OS, âhybridâ is built into System Center. System Center truly enables common management that spans Windows Server and Windows Azure environments, be it provisioning, self-service, monitoring, or IT service management.
Enterprise-class: System Center infrastructure management capabilities are enterprise grade and ready to use today. Not only is System Center best-of-breed for Windows environments and Microsoft workloads (like Exchange, SharePoint and SQL) but it also enables robust management of heterogeneous datacenters.
Reduce datacenter complexity: Weâre constantly striving to reduce complexity in your datacenter by making it easy to provision, manage and operate infrastructure services with System Center.
Application focused: System Center has a relentless focus on optimizing your apps and workloads by arming you with rich insights to help you deliver predictable application SLA (after all, apps are what your business cares about and infrastructure exists to support them).
Things to Know
Prerequisites: Before running the System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager or Configuration Manager Installer you will need to download and install the following prerequisite:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=309908.