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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

Setting up a VMM library


A default VMM library is configured when you install a VMM management server. However, you can add more VMM libraries later on.

In VMM 2012, the library can store file-based resources, custom resources, templates and profiles, equivalent objects, private cloud libraries, self-service user content, stored virtual machines and services, orphaned resources and update catalogs, and baseline files.

Tip

It is strongly recommended that you use the Windows 2012 server for the Library Server OS as the VHDX does require Windows Server 2012.

This recipe will guide you through the process of configuring the VMM library.

Getting ready

The following table shows the configuration that we are going to use in this recipe:

Resource

Name

VMM management server

vmm-mgmt01.lab.local

Library share added during VMM management server installation

vmm-mgmt01\MSSCVMMLibrary

Library server and share in Sydney office

vmm-lib01\VMMSYD-Library

Second library share in Sydney office

vmm...