Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By : EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho

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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By: EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management platform. With System Center 2012, you can more easily and efficiently manage your applications and services across multiple hypervisors as well as across public and private cloud infrastructures to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.This cookbook covers architecture design and planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy, and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors: Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi, and Citrix XenServer. It also includes the VMM 2012 SP1 features.This book is a cookbook that covers architecture design, planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors : Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi and Citrix XenServer.

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

VMM 2012 Architecture

VMM 2012 Architecture

Understanding each component for a real-world implementation

Designing the VMM server, database, and console

Planning for high availability

Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario

Licensing the System Center

Troubleshooting VMM and supporting technologies

Installing SCVMM 2012

Installing SCVMM 2012

Creating service accounts

Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for VMM implementation

Installing VMM dependencies

Configuring distributed key management

Installing a VMM management server

Installing the VMM console

Connecting to a VMM management server by using the VMM console

Creating a Run As account's credentials in VMM

Configuring ports and protocols on the host firewall for each SCVMM component

Installing the VMM Management Server

Installing the VMM Management Server

Installing a highly available VMM management server

Installing a VMM management server on an additional node of a cluster

Connecting to a highly available VMM management server by using the VMM console

Deploying a highly available library server on a file server cluster

Uninstalling a highly available VMM management server

Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM

Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM

Creating host groups

Setting up a VMM library

Networking – configuring logical networks in VMM

Networking – VM network and gateways with VMM

Networking – configuring ports and switches with VMM

Configuring storage with VMM

Provisioning a physical computer as a Hyper-V host – Bare Metal host deployment

Adding and managing Hyper-V hosts and host clusters with VMM

Deploying Virtual Machines and Services

Deploying Virtual Machines and Services

Creating private clouds

Creating hardware, guest OS, application, and SQL profiles

Creating user roles in VMM

Creating and deploying virtual machines

Creating virtual machine templates

Creating and deploying service templates

Rapidly provisioning a virtual machine by using SAN Copy

Upgrading from SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1

Upgrading from SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1

Reviewing the upgrade options

Checking the VMM system requirements and preparing for the upgrade

Upgrading to VMM 2012 SP1

Reassociating hosts after upgrading

Updating the VMM agents

Performing other post-upgrade tasks

Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager

Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager

VMM PowerShell overview

Finding the command to automate tasks in VMM

Creating a script from VMM wizards

Storing and running scripts in VMM

VMM sample scripts

Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer Hosts

Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer Hosts

Adding a VMware vCenter Server to VMM

Adding VMware ESX hosts or host clusters to VMM

Configuring network settings on a VMware ESX host

Configuring host BMC settings

Importing VMware templates

Converting VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V

Managing Citrix XenServer hosts and pools

Converting Citrix virtual machines to Hyper-V

Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Creating Clusters, and New Features of SP1

Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Creating Clusters, and New Features of SP1

Creating Hyper-V clusters with VMM

Managing fabric updates in VMM

Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in VMM

Live-migrating virtual machines with VMM 2012 SP1

Linux virtual machines in VMM 2012 SP1

Configuring availability options and virtual NUMA for VMs in VMM 2012 SP1

Configuring resource throttling in VMM SP1

Deploying SC App Controller 2012 SP1 for hybrid cloud management

Index

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Installing a highly available VMM management server

This recipe will provide the steps to install a high available VMM management server.

The HA VMM installation is very similar to the standalone installation, and it is integrated into the usual standalone installation.

To install VMM in an HA, you just need to start the installation of VMM management in one of the nodes of the cluster and then select Install.

Note

Important SCVMM 2012 high available VMM notes:

It is a fault tolerant service feature, but it does not mean that it will increase the scale or performance.
Of a maximum of 16 nodes, only one VMM management node will be active at any time.
Connecting to a node name is not allowed. You will have to type the HA VMM service cluster name in the VMM console login when prompted for a VMM server name and port number.
To run a VMM planned failover, say for server patching, use the failover cluster UI and not the VMM console.
In SP1, high availability with N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) is not...