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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Rapidly provisioning a virtual machine using SAN Copy


This recipe will guide you through the steps to rapidly provision a virtual machine using the Storage Area Network (SAN) Copy technology (for example, snapshots and cloning).

Using rapid provisioning, you can quickly create and deploy VMs, but if you want to use a template that is SAN Copy capable, the storage must support SAN Copy through cloning or snapshots.

Note

VMM 2012 R2 now supports ODX, which allows the provisioning of multiple VMs per LUN.

The template that is SAN Copy capable allows VMM, when deploying a new VM, to create a read/write copy of the LUN containing the VHD/VHDX file, which then places the VM files on the new LUN assigned to a destination host/cluster. For this operation, a storage transfer is used instead of a network transfer.

Getting ready

Make sure that the following prerequisites are met if you want to use the SAN Copy capability:

  • Storage support should be provided for VMM storage management using the SMI-S or SMP...