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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

Managing Citrix® XenServer® hosts and pools


Using VMM, you can deploy and manage Citrix XenServer hosts and pools (clusters). VMM manages XenServer hosts directly.

You can perform functions such as discovery, creation, management, storage, and deployment of VMs and services on XenServer hosts and pools.

You can also make XenServer resources available to private cloud deployments using the VMM console or PowerShell.

The following Xen features are supported by VMM:

  • Standalone XenServer hosts and pools (clusters).

  • VM placement based on host ratings when creating, deploying, and migrating XenServer VMs.

  • The deployment of VMM services to XenServer hosts.

  • XenServer resources, which can be made available to a private cloud when creating it from host groups that have XenServer hosts.

  • You can configure quotas for private clouds and application (self service) roles assigned to private clouds.

  • The VMM Dynamic Optimization feature for XenServer hosts and clusters.

  • The live migration between XenServer hosts in...