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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

Updating the VMM agents


After upgrading to a new version of VMM, you will also need to update the VMM agents running on the Hyper-V server hosts. This recipe will guide you through the steps.

How to do it...

To update the VMM agent of a host, carry out the following steps after upgrading:

  1. In the Fabric workspace on the VMM console, expand Servers and then go to All Hosts. In the Hosts pane, right-click on the column header and select Agent Status.

  2. On the Hosts tab in the ribbon, click on Refresh.

    Note

    If a host requires the VMM agent to be updated, it will display Needs Attention in the Host Status column and Upgrade Available in the Agent Version Status column.

  3. To update the VMM agent, select and right-click on the host, and then click on Update Agent.

  4. In the Update Agent dialog, type in the user credentials, and click on OK.

  5. The Agent Version Status column will exhibit Upgrading, which will then change to Up-to-date once the update process is completed successfully.

  6. On the Hosts tab in the ribbon...