The previous chapters primarily focused on securing our hypervisors, VMs, networks, and storage. Chapter 7, Hyper-V Security and System Center VMM introduced and explained what System Center Virtual Machine Manager brings to the table in the realm of on-premise private cloud management. However, we are yet to talk about the tools that are available to securely manage multiple clouds at once.

As organizations and businesses increasingly move to Microsoft's new "Cloud OS" strategy, managing multiple resources in multiple locations is going to become a challenge. Doing this in a secure manner is going to be much more of a challenge.

So, what tools are available to help us tackle this issue? We need to be able to securely manage on-premise SCVMM installations, but we may have resources elsewhere as well. What happens when we need to manage resources inside an Azure public cloud subscription? What if we need to manage resources contained...