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Hyper-V Best Practices

By : Benedict Berger
Book Image

Hyper-V Best Practices

By: Benedict Berger

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Hyper-V Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Management with System Center

 

"Every datacenter and cloud infrastructure needs an efficient management solution. With System Center, Microsoft offers a great solution for managing, automating, and monitoring your datacenter.

Especially, Virtual Machine Manager allows you to integrate your hardware resources—such as storage, networking, and compute—and manage them from a single pane of glass."

 
 --Thomas Maurer - MVP Hyper-V

Your Hyper-V environment is now configured for high performance, and you are probably expanding the use of Hyper-V by now. This chapter gives you an overview of the management of Hyper-V servers through various system center components.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Deployment and management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager for:

    • Service templates

    • Fabric management

  • Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager

  • Backup with System Center Data Protection Manager

  • Automation with System Center