By analogy with the digest of materials on Windows Server 2012 / R2 I bring together everything that has accumulated in System Center. This also added those posts on the hybrid cloud, which somehow affect the components of System Center and / or server.

General issues

Overview of the new features of System Center 2012 SP1
The cloud is growing and getting husbands - or new System Center Vitrual Machine Manager 2012 R2

Infrastructure Management

Bare-Metal Deployment - or how cloud elasticity is ensured in System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager
On bare iron ... VMM 2012 R2 features
The concept of network virtualization based on Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1
Network Virtualization in System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager
Storage Management in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1
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Hybrid cloud

System Center 2012 App Controller: we pound Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Windows Azure into one team
Create a private cloud using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
Templates for creating services and services for Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
Expansion of local infrastructure to the cloud
Windows Azure Pack - what kind of animal and what is it with?


Almost all the technologies described in the above posts can be viewed in the following three free courses on MVA :
Configuring Virtualization Hosts (Jump Start)
Ensuring the security and high availability of virtual machines (Jump Start)
Deploying Virtual Machines and Services (Jump Start)


Well, a couple of the most recent courses on:
Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center
Best Practices for Using System Center