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System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Roman Levchenko, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Roman Levchenko, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2016 is part of the System Center suite to configure and manage datacenters and offers a unified management experience on-premises and Azure cloud. This book will be your best companion for day-to-day virtualization needs within your organization, as it takes you through a series of recipes to simplify and plan a highly scalable and available virtual infrastructure. You will learn the deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2016 in a real-world scenario. The chapters are divided in a way that will allow you to implement the VMM 2016 and additional solutions required to effectively manage and monitor your fabrics and clouds. We will cover the most important new features in VMM 2016 across networking, storage, and compute, including brand new Guarded Fabric, Shielded VMs and Storage Spaces Direct. The recipes in the book provide step-by-step instructions giving you the simplest way to dive into VMM fabric concepts, private cloud, and integration with external solutions such as VMware, Operations Manager, and the Windows Azure Pack. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the knowledge you require to start designing and implementing virtual infrastructures in VMM 2016.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Managing discovery and agents


After installing the Operations Manager, you need to deploy the agents and start monitoring servers, network devices, services, and applications.

We also need to install the agents on the VMM management server and on all Hyper-V servers. This is required in order to integrate VMM with Operations Manager.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to install the OpsMgr agent on a Windows OS by using the Discovery Wizard tool:

  1. On the OpsMgr console, click on Administration on the left, right-click and select Discovery Wizard..., as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. On the What would you like to manage? page (shown on clicking the Discovery Type tab), click on Windows computers and then click on Next.
  2. On the Auto or Advanced? page, select either Automatic computer discovery (to scan all of the Windows computers on the domain) or Advanced discovery.
  3. If you have selected Advanced discovery:
    • From the Computer and Device Classes drop-down list, select either: Servers...