This chapter is all about configuring the fabric resources infrastructure that you can use in your private cloud deployment. The following design shows the VMM components' infrastructure deployed as VMs on a Hyper-V server. You can use this as an example for your lab or small deployments.

Note that, on this design sample, there is no guest-cluster implementation; VMM is neither implemented as HA, nor as SQL:

VMM 2012 fabric resources are powerful when configuring resources for private clouds, hosts, VMs, and services. This chapter will give you the necessary guidance to deploy physical servers as Hyper-V hosts and to configure and manage networking, storage, and VMM library resources. These recipes will empower you to get more out of this feature and help you understand the steps required to create the necessary infrastructure for your private cloud deployment.

The fabric resources are the infrastructure needed in order to manage the private cloud, hosts, VMs, or services. The...