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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing fabric updates


A VMM-managed fabric server comprises the following workloads: Hyper-V hosts and host clusters, VMM library servers, Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE), the Windows Server Update Management (WSUS) server, and the VMM management server; refer to the following diagram:

You can monitor the update status of the servers, scan for compliance, and update all or a set of the servers' resources as well as exempt resources from the installation of an update.

You can also orchestrate an update remediation on Hyper-V host clusters, where VMM will place one node of the cluster at a time in maintenance mode and install the updates. If the cluster supports live migration, the Intelligent Placement feature will be used to live-migrate the VMs off the node; otherwise, VMM will save the state for the VMs, and the host will start the VM after updating it.

Tip

After integrating the WSUS server with VMM, it is recommended that you manage it only through the VMM console (unless you have...