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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

Uninstalling a highly available VMM management server


When you have a highly available VMM server, to uninstall the high availability completely you will need to uninstall the VMM management server from each node in the cluster.

Before uninstalling VMM management server, ensure that any connections to VMM management server are closed.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to remove an additional node of a VMM:

  1. On a VMM highly available server node, in the Programs and Features folder (Control | Panel | Programs), click on Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and click on Remove features.

  2. On the Select features to remove page, click on the VMM management server and click on Next.

  3. On the Database options page, click on Next.

  4. On the Summary page, click on Uninstall and then click on Close.

How it works...

The preceding steps show you how to remove a VMM server installed as an HA VMM server, in which you need to be a member of the local Administrators group, or have equivalent...