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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By : EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho
Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Networking – configuring logical networks in VMM


Networking in VMM 2012 includes enhancements such as logical networks, network load balance integration, and network virtualization which enables administrators to efficiently provision network resources for a virtualized environment.

In this recipe, we will go through the logical network configuration.

Getting ready

A logical network linked to a network site is a user-defined group of IP subnets, VLANs, or IP subnet/VLAN pairs that is used to organize and simplify network assignments. It can be used to label networks with different purposes, for traffic isolation, and to provision networks for different types of service-level agreements (SLAs).

As VMs move across Hyper-V servers, make sure that the virtual network switches are named exactly the same in all Hyper-V servers (as they are associated with VMs). In addition, if you plan to use the Hyper-V host as part of a cluster node, make sure that you have at least two external virtual network...