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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

Converting Citrix virtual machines to Hyper-V


Converting a Citrix XenServer VM to a Hyper-V VM is supported, and it is done using the P2V process. The procedure described in this recipe is exactly the same as the one used for converting physical servers to Hyper-V VMs.

You are not required to remove Citrix Tools from the source VM to start the P2V conversion.

However, note that only running VMs are supported for the conversion in VMM 2012. The source VM must also be running a supported Windows guest OS. You can check the supported operating systems at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh427293.aspx.

Additionally, the source machine needs to meet the following requirements:

  • A minimum RAM of 512 MB

  • Cannot have a volume larger than 2 TB

  • Must have an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS

  • Must be accessible to the VMM management server and the host

  • Should not have encrypted volumes

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to convert a Citrix VM to a Hyper-V VM:

  1. In the VMs...