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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

Configuring resource throttling in VMM SP1


The additional features provided with the resource throttling feature in VMM 2012 SP1 include enhanced CPU (processor) and memory-throttling capabilities, which ensure that CPU and memory resources are allocated and used effectively. The ability to set the virtual processor (VP) weight to provide it with larger or smaller shares of CPU cycles ensures that VMs can be ranked when CPU resources are overcommitted.

Memory throttling helps to rank access to memory resources in situations where memory resources are constrained.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to configure processor-throttling:

  1. On the VMM console, execute one of the following:

    • To configure a deployed VM, on the VMs pane in the VMs and Services workspace, select the VM, right-click on it, and click on Properties.

    • To configure a VM stored in the VMM library, in the Library workspace, select the stored VM, right-click on it, and click on Properties.

    • To configure a VM at the...