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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

Adding and Managing Hyper-V hosts and host clusters


In VMM 2016, you can add Hyper-V hosts/clusters running on the same domain as the VMM, on a trusted domain, or in a disjointed namespace. You can also add Hyper-V hosts (not clusters) running on an untrusted domain and on a perimeter network (for example, DMZ). Using Bare metal as we described before, physical computers with no OS can be added as well.

If you want to manage a standalone host that is in a workgroup, use the method to add a host in a perimeter network.

Getting ready

Make sure virtualization support is enabled in the BIOS. If the Hyper-V role is not installed, VMM will install it as part of the setup.

The following steps will guide you through how to add a Hyper-V host or a Hyper-V cluster in a trusted Active Directory domain.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to add a trusted Hyper-V host or cluster:

  1. In the VMM console, click on the Fabric workspace, and then on the Fabric pane, click on Servers.
  2. On the Home tab, click...