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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

Introduction


This chapter is all about configuring the fabric resources infrastructure that you can use in your private cloud deployment. The following design shows the VMM components' infrastructure deployed as VMs on a Hyper-V cluster. You can use this as an example for your deployment. Note that, on this design, there is no guest-cluster implementation; VMM are neither implemented as HA, and nor as SQL:

VMM 2012 fabric resources are powerful when configuring resources for private clouds, hosts, VMs, and services. This chapter will give you the necessary guidance to deploy physical servers as Hyper-V hosts and to configure and manage networking, storage, and VMM library resources. These recipes will empower you to get more out of this feature and help you understand the steps required to create the necessary infrastructure for your private cloud deployment.

The fabric resources are the infrastructure needed in order to manage the private cloud, hosts, VMs, or services. The following recipes...