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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 Linux virtual machines


Linux-based VMs are fully supported since VMM 2012 SP1, when hosted on a Hyper-V Server. This gives you the ability to add Linux-specific settings, such as OS specialization, when creating a Linux VM template, and additionally, the ability to add that template to a service template that deploys a multitier application or service.

Getting ready

Before deploying Linux VMs, check whether Linux Integration Services (LIS) is installed on the VMs. VMM does not check whether a VM meets the LIS requirement. However, if these requirements are not met, the VM will fail to deploy.

Note

Some Linux distributions include LIS by default. But if LIS is not included, you must manually install it.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to install the VMM agent for Linux on a Linux VM:

  1. Log in to the VMM management server with administrative rights.
  2. Click on the Windows key and type cmd. Right-click on cmd and select Run as administrator.
  3. Type in the following command in the command...