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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

Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for VMM implementation


In this recipe, we will see how to prepare and install SQL Server for VMM 2016.

Note

For more information about SQL Server versions supported by VMM 2016, see the Specifying the correct system requirements on a real-world scenario recipe in Chapter 1, VMM 2016 Architecture.

Getting ready

Assuming that you have already installed the operating system according to the SQL Server requirements of the SQL version you are installing, connect to the SQL Server machine (for example, w2k16-sql).

Note

Before you install SQL Server on a computer that is running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, you must make sure that you fulfill the following minimum requirements: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2681562/using-sql-server-in-windows-8-and-later-versions-of-windows-operating.

Also before starting, make sure the machine is a member of the domain, and refer to the following Microsoft articles for hardware and software requirements for SQL Server...