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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By : EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho
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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.

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
VMM 2012 Architecture
VMM 2012 Architecture
Introduction
Understanding each component for a real-world implementation
Designing the VMM server, database, and console
Planning for high availability
Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario
Licensing the System Center
Troubleshooting VMM and supporting technologies
2
Installing SCVMM 2012
Installing SCVMM 2012
Introduction
Creating service accounts
Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for VMM implementation
Installing VMM dependencies
Configuring distributed key management
Installing a VMM management server
Installing the VMM console
Connecting to a VMM management server by using the VMM console
Creating a Run As account's credentials in VMM
Configuring ports and protocols on the host firewall for each SCVMM component
3
Installing the VMM Management Server
Installing the VMM Management Server
Introduction
Installing a highly available VMM management server
Installing a VMM management server on an additional node of a cluster
Connecting to a highly available VMM management server by using the VMM console
Deploying a highly available library server on a file server cluster
Uninstalling a highly available VMM management server
4
Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM
Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM
Introduction
Creating host groups
Setting up a VMM library
Networking – configuring logical networks in VMM
Networking – VM network and gateways with VMM
Networking – configuring ports and switches with VMM
Configuring storage with VMM
Provisioning a physical computer as a Hyper-V host – Bare Metal host deployment
Adding and managing Hyper-V hosts and host clusters with VMM
5
Deploying Virtual Machines and Services
Deploying Virtual Machines and Services
Introduction
Creating private clouds
Creating hardware, guest OS, application, 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 by using SAN Copy
6
Upgrading from SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1
Upgrading from SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1
Introduction
Reviewing the upgrade options
Checking the VMM system requirements and preparing for the upgrade
Upgrading to VMM 2012 SP1
Reassociating hosts after upgrading
Updating the VMM agents
Performing other post-upgrade tasks
7
Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager
Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager
Introduction
VMM PowerShell overview
Finding the command to automate tasks in VMM
Creating a script from VMM wizards
Storing and running scripts in VMM
VMM sample scripts
8
Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer Hosts
Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer Hosts
Introduction
Adding a 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
9
Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Creating Clusters, and New Features of SP1
Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Creating Clusters, and New Features of SP1
Introduction
Creating Hyper-V clusters with VMM
Managing fabric updates in VMM
Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in VMM
Live-migrating virtual machines with VMM 2012 SP1
Linux virtual machines in VMM 2012 SP1
Configuring availability options and virtual NUMA for VMs in VMM 2012 SP1
Configuring resource throttling in VMM SP1
Deploying SC App Controller 2012 SP1 for hybrid cloud management
Index
Index

Creating and deploying service templates

In VMM 2012, a service is a set of VMs configured and deployed together and managed as a single entity. For example, like the deployment of a three-tier business application or a frontend web application with SQL Server running in the background.

A service template provides the capability to separate the OS configuration from the application installation, leaving you with fewer OS images.

By using service templates, you will be able to leverage variations in capacity, easily adding or removing VMs needed to support the application.

Tip

It is the best practice to wrap even a single VM template into a service template as you, for example, scale it out.

Getting ready

Ensure that the resources that you need in order to create the service are available. Review and document all the elements that the service needs to be up and running before starting. For example:

  • What servers need to be deployed to support the service?

  • Which existing VM template will be used?

  • What...

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