This recipe provides guidance on how to create a private cloud from host groups that are running diverse hypervisors, such as Hyper-V, Citrix, VMware ESX hosts, or from a VMware resource pool in VMM 2012 R2.
Using VMM 2012 and by deploying a private cloud, you will be able to offer a unique experience for creating VMs and services, which will, in turn, lead towards the consumerization of IT.
A private cloud deployment allows resource pooling, where you can present a comprehensive set of fabric resources, but limit it by quotas that can be increased or decreased, providing fully optimized elasticity, without affecting the private cloud's overall user experience. In addition to this, you can also delegate the management to tenants and self-service users who have no knowledge of physical infrastructures such as clusters, storage, and networking.
A private cloud can be created using the following resources:
Host groups that contain Hyper-V, VMware ESX, to Citrix XenServer...