In VMM, a private cloud consists of a collection of resources (for example, host groups of servers running common or diverse hypervisors, storage, and networking) and settings that provide virtualization infrastructure for cloud users (for example, tenants and self-service users), and it is deployed within your organizational boundaries using your own hardware and software.

This chapter guides you through private cloud deployment and management, discusses VMs, and discusses the services in VMM 2012 R2, providing recipes to assist you to get the most out of the deployment.