In this section we will learn to plan and configure hypervisor resources such as Hyper-V hosts and clusters, VMware and Citrix hypervisors. In a WAP-based cloud solution the hypervisor layer has to be in control of SCVMM for IaaS services provisioning and lifecycle management.
In this section we will cover various ways of adding and managing a hypervisor layer in SCVMM.
In a large scale cloud deployment comprising hundreds of Hyper-V hosts and thousands of virtual machines or more, managing the hosts effectively in terms of resource provisioning and controlling becomes challenging. SCVMM host groups can be used to avoid such challenges, it provides flexibilities to group multiple hypervisor hosts and uses as a single entity for resource provisioning and management.
Host group planning would have a different foundation and strategy for organizations and service providers. A few common options...