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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

Adding VMware ESX hosts or host clusters to VMM


Now that you've integrated vCenter with VMM, you can start adding the ESX hosts that are to be managed by VMM.

Getting ready

The following is a list of some prerequisites and recommendations that need to be taken into account when adding VMware hosts to VMM 2012 R2:

  • The VMware vCenter Server that manages the ESX hosts must already be configured and integrated into VMM

  • The host must run a supported version of VMware vSphere. For more information, refer to Chapter 1, VMM 2012 Architecture

  • If encryption is required for communication between VMM and the vSphere hosts, a certificate and public key for each managed ESX/ESXi host will be needed

  • Although it is not a requirement, you can create a host group to organize the hosts (for example, VMware Hosts)

  • As per best practices, create a Run As account with root credentials on the VMware ESX hosts

    Note

    Although it is possible to create the Run As account when adding the ESX hosts, as per VMM best practice, it...