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

General issues

Overview of the new features of System Center 2012 SP1
Cloud grows and matures - or the latest 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
For bare metal ... VMM 2012 R2 features
Network virtualization concept 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

Hybrid cloud

System Center 2012 App Controller: driving Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Windows Azure into one team
Creating a private cloud with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
Templates for creating services for Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
Extending the local infrastructure in the
Windows Azure Pack cloud - what kind of animal and what is it with?


Almost all the technologies described in the above posts can be found 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 Fresh courses on the topic:
Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center
Best Practices for Using System Center