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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

Deploying SC App Controller 2012 SP1 for hybrid cloud management


App Controller (SCAC) is a replacement of the VMM Self-Service Portal. However, it is far from being just a replacement. It enables integration and management of VMM 2012 and Windows Azure services, meaning that it enables you to manage private and public clouds all together in a single console. You can, for example, upload Windows Azure configuration files, package files, and virtual hard drives from on-premises Hyper-V machines to Windows Azure.

Note

Check the terms of use and privacy statement for the Windows Azure service at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=236391.

Getting ready

Before installing App Controller (SCAC), ensure that the system meets the hardware and software requirements and all the prerequisites are installed; see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg696060.aspx.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to deploy System Center App Controller 2012 SP1:

  1. Log in to the server if you plan to install...