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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

Adding a VMware vCenter Server to VMM


In order to manage VMware hosts, you need to integrate the VMM with any existing VMware vCenter Servers. VMM supports the VMware vCenter Server virtualization management software for managing hosts.

The features that are supported when the VMM manages ESXi hosts are as follows:

Functionality supported by VMM

Notes

Private clouds

The ESXi host resources are available to a VMM private cloud when creating the private cloud from host groups with ESXi hosts, or from a VMware resource pool. VMM does not support or integrate with VMware vCloud.

Dynamic Optimization

VMM Dynamic Optimization features can be used for vSphere clusters.

Power Optimization

Using VMM 2016, you can turn vSphere hosts on and off.

Live migration

Live migration between hosts within the cluster is supported by VMM 2016 and uses VMware vMotion. Placing ESXi hosts into and out of maintenance modes can also be done from VMM.

Live storage migration

Supported by VMM 2016 and uses VMware Storage vMotion...