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System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Roman Levchenko, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
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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

Introduction


It must be difficult to find customers who have never thought about moving their enter-prise workloads to the cloud. Some of them decide to build hybrid clouds, while others migrate all of their resources in order to make an all-in-the-cloud model. However, almost everyone is concerned about security and it often becomes an obstacle on their road to cloud. How can you be sure that your data is kept securely and that only you have access to it? Since a VM is just a set of files that can be copied by bad guys from the cloud's provider and then simply used on other systems,  your competitors may be able to get access to that data and steal your client's database, personal data, administrator credentials, confidential data, and so on. More simply, compromised backup admins can restore your VM and do anything with your confidential data. Cloud providers, thus, are required to provide a solution to eliminate all these risks and also to protect themselves from unexpected data theft...