Read original post by Kurt Mackie at Redmond Magazine
Microsoft late last week released two community technology previews (CTPs) of System Center 2012 solutions specifically designed for use with the new Windows Server 8 beta.
The CTPs of Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager, which are part of the System Center 2012 suite, can be downloaded here. Testing the CTPs requires that a computing environment also have SQL Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions), .NET 3.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor installed.