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System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Roman Levchenko, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
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System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Roman Levchenko, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2016 is part of the System Center suite to configure and manage datacenters and offers a unified management experience on-premises and Azure cloud. This book will be your best companion for day-to-day virtualization needs within your organization, as it takes you through a series of recipes to simplify and plan a highly scalable and available virtual infrastructure. You will learn the deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2016 in a real-world scenario. The chapters are divided in a way that will allow you to implement the VMM 2016 and additional solutions required to effectively manage and monitor your fabrics and clouds. We will cover the most important new features in VMM 2016 across networking, storage, and compute, including brand new Guarded Fabric, Shielded VMs and Storage Spaces Direct. The recipes in the book provide step-by-step instructions giving you the simplest way to dive into VMM fabric concepts, private cloud, and integration with external solutions such as VMware, Operations Manager, and the Windows Azure Pack. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the knowledge you require to start designing and implementing virtual infrastructures in VMM 2016.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


This chapter includes recipes that will help administrators to use VMM 2016 to manage daily operations of VMware ESXi hosts and host clusters, such as the identification and management of hosts. In addition, it will provide you with the ability to create, manage, save, and deploy VMs on VMware ESXi hosts, all from the VMM console.

System Center 2016 relies on the concept of a fabric, which is made up of hosts, host groups, and library servers, as well as networking and storage configurations. This architecture abstracts the underlying infrastructure from the users, but lets them deploy VMs, applications, and services, irrespective of whether the infrastructure is running on Microsoft hypervisor technology or on a  hypervisor from VMware.

As multiple hypervisors can be managed through a common console, we can deploy VMs and applications in a consistent manner and get the same capabilities from different hypervisors. We can choose to utilize a mix of hypervisors, aggregating one...