I had the privilege of being a technical review on this great new book from Alessandro Cardoso.  If you work with SCVMM 2012 R2 take a look.

Covering : Windows 2012 R2 and Hyper-V new features, System Center 2012 R2 VMM, Operations Manager, App Controller and Azure integration as well the Veeam Management Pack.

• Plan and design a VMM architecture for real-world deployment
• Configure network virtualization, gateway integration, storage integration, resource throttling, and availability options
• Integrate Operations Manager (SCOM) with VMM to monitor your infrastructure
• Integrate SC APP Controller (SCAC) with VMM to manage private and public clouds (Azure)
• Deploy clusters with VMM Bare Metal
• Create and deploy virtual machines from templates
• Deploy a highly available VMM Management server
• Manage Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix from VMM
• Upgrade from previous VMM versions