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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By : EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By: EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management platform. With System Center 2012, you can more easily and efficiently manage your applications and services across multiple hypervisors as well as across public and private cloud infrastructures to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.This cookbook covers architecture design and planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy, and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors: Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi, and Citrix XenServer. It also includes the VMM 2012 SP1 features.This book is a cookbook that covers architecture design, planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors : Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi and Citrix XenServer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing the VMM console


After installing VMM management server, we need to install the VMM Console to manage VMM from your desktop.

The VMM console is the GUI interface to the VMM management server. For example, you will be using it to manage the cloud, fabric, storage, and resources.

Getting ready

Before you start the installation of the VMM console, ensure that the VMM management server is up and running. Also, check if your machine has all the prerequisites for the VMM console installation.

Note

Consult the logfiles in the %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData\VMMLogs folder. Check ProgramData if you find issues at the time of installation.

Make sure you log in with an account that is a member of the local Administrators group before starting the installation.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

  1. Log in as lab\vmm-admin or with administrator rights.

  2. Browse to the VMM setup folder, right-click on setup, and then select Run as administrator.

  3. On the Setup page, click on Install.

  4. On the Select features...