System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

VMM 2012 Architecture

VMM 2012 Architecture

Understanding each component for a real-world implementation

Planning for High Availability

Designing the VMM server, database, and console implementation

Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario

Licensing the System Center

Troubleshooting VMM and supporting technologies

Upgrading from Previous Versions

Upgrading from Previous Versions

Reviewing the upgrade options

Checking the VMM system requirements and preparing for the upgrade

Upgrading to VMM 2012 R2

Reassociating hosts after upgrading

Updating the VMM agents

Performing other post-upgrade tasks

Installing VMM 2012 R2

Installing VMM 2012 R2

Creating service accounts

Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for a VMM implementation

Installing VMM dependencies

Configuring Distributed Key Management

Installing a VMM management server

Installing the VMM console

Connecting to a VMM management server using the VMM console

Creating credentials for a Run As account in VMM

Configuring ports and protocols on the host firewall for each VMM component

Installing a High Available VMM Server

Installing a High Available VMM Server

Installing a highly available VMM management server

Installing a VMM management server on the additional node of a cluster

Connecting to a highly available VMM management server using the VMM console

Deploying a highly available library server on a file server cluster

Uninstalling a highly available VMM management server

Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM

Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM

Creating host groups

Setting up a VMM library

Configuring networks in VMM

Networking – configuring logical networks

Networking – configuring VM networks and gateways

Networking – configuring logical switches, port profiles, and port classifications

Integrating and configuring the storage

Creating a physical computer profile (host profile)

Provisioning a physical computer as a Hyper-V host – Bare Metal host deployment

Adding and managing Hyper-V hosts and host clusters

Deploying Virtual Machines and Services

Deploying Virtual Machines and Services

Creating private clouds

Creating hardware, guest OSes, applications, and SQL profiles

Creating user roles in VMM

Creating and deploying virtual machines

Creating virtual machine templates

Creating and deploying service templates

Rapidly provisioning a virtual machine using SAN Copy

Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer Hosts

Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer Hosts

Adding VMware vCenter Server to VMM

Adding VMware ESX hosts or host clusters to VMM

Configuring network settings on a VMware ESX host

Configuring host BMC settings

Importing VMware templates

Converting VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V

Managing Citrix XenServer hosts and pools

Converting Citrix virtual machines to Hyper-V

Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and the New Features of R2

Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and the New Features of R2

Creating Hyper-V clusters

Managing fabric updates

Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization

Live migrating virtual machines

Managing Linux virtual machines

Configuring availability options and virtual NUMA for VMs

Configuring resource throttling

Integrating with the IPAM server for IP management

Deploying SC App Controller 2012 R2 for hybrid cloud management

Configuring Synthetic Fibre Channel

Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

Installing System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

Installing management packs

Managing Discovery and Agents

Configuring the integration between Operations Manager 2012 and VMM 2012

Enabling reporting in VMM

Extending monitoring with management packs

Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager

Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager

Introducing VMM PowerShell

Finding the command to automate tasks in VMM

Creating a script from VMM wizards

Storing and running scripts in VMM

Using VMM sample scripts

Index

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Introduction

This chapter provides tips and techniques to allow administrators to integrate Operations Manager 2012 R2 with Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 to monitor the health and performance of virtual machine hosts and their virtual machines, as well as to use the Operations Manager reporting functionality.

In a hybrid hypervisor environment (for example, Hyper-V and VMware), using Operations Manager management packs (MPs) (for example, Veeam MP), you can monitor the Hyper-V hosts and the VMware hosts, which allow you to use only the System Center console to manage and monitor the hybrid hypervisor environment.

You can also monitor the health and availability of the VMM infrastructure, management, database, and library servers. The following screenshot will show you the diagram views of the virtualized environment through the Operations Manager: