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System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Roman Levchenko, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

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

Creating Hyper-V clusters


This recipe will guide you to create a Hyper-V cluster using VMM. Using the steps provided here, you will be able to select the Hyper-V servers and join them to a cluster, configuring networking and storage resources in the process.

Note

Creating a hyper-converged S2D cluster is described in Chapter 5, Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM. See the Deploying hyper-converged cluster with S2D and Hyper-V recipe.

Getting ready

Before you start creating a Hyper-V cluster, there are some requirements that you need to look at. These are discussed in the following sections.

Prerequisites for cluster creation using VMM 2016

Make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

  • You need at least two standalone Hyper-V servers, and they need to be under VMM management already (see the Adding and managing Hyper-V hosts and host clusters in VMM recipe in Chapter 5, Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM)
  • The hosts should meet the requirements for failover clustering and should be running...