Book description
Over 70 recipes to help you design, configure, and manage a reliable and efficient virtual infrastructure with VMM 2012 R2
In Detail
Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management platform. With System Center 2012, you can easily and efficiently deploy, manage, and monitor a virtualized infrastructure, as well as services and applications across multiple hypervisors. This can also be done across public and private cloud infrastructures to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.
This book will take you through a series of recipes to streamline your System Center VMM architecture. Each section has been discreetly designed to help you simplify, plan, and deploy a highly scalable, high availability virtual infrastructure. The first few sections take you through the design and installation of System Center 2012 R2 VMM and Windows 2012 Hyper-V R2 features. Network virtualization, storage integration, and bare metal deployment are also covered in this book.
What You Will Learn
- Plan and design a VMM architecture for real-world deployment
- Configure network virtualization, gateway integration, storage integration, resource throttling, and availability options
- Integrate SC Operations Manager (SCOM) with VMM to monitor your infrastructure
- Integrate SC APP Controller (SCAC) with VMM to manage private and public clouds (Azure)
- Deploy clusters with VMM Bare Metal
- Create and deploy virtual machines from templates
- Deploy a highly available VMM Management server
- Manage Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix® from VMM
- Upgrade from previous VMM versions
Table of contents
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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. VMM 2012 Architecture
- Introduction
- Understanding each component for a real-world implementation
- Planning for High Availability
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Designing the VMM server, database, and console implementation
- Getting ready
- How to do it…
- How it works…
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There's more...
- Storage providers – SMI-S and SMP
- Bare Metal
- Configuring security
- Run As accounts in VMM
- Ports' communications and protocols for firewall configuration
- The VM storage placement
- Management clusters
- Small environment
- Lab environments
- Medium and enterprise environments
- Private cloud sample infrastructure
- Hosting environments
- New networking features in VMM 2012 R2
- See also
- Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario
- Licensing the System Center
- Troubleshooting VMM and supporting technologies
- 2. Upgrading from Previous Versions
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3. Installing VMM 2012 R2
- Introduction
- Creating service accounts
- Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for a VMM implementation
- Installing VMM dependencies
- Configuring Distributed Key Management
- Installing a VMM management server
- Installing the VMM console
- Connecting to a VMM management server using the VMM console
- Creating credentials for a Run As account in VMM
- Configuring ports and protocols on the host firewall for each VMM component
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4. Installing a High Available VMM Server
- Introduction
- Installing a highly available VMM management server
- Installing a VMM management server on the additional node of a cluster
- Connecting to a highly available VMM management server using the VMM console
- Deploying a highly available library server on a file server cluster
- Uninstalling a highly available VMM management server
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5. Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM
- Introduction
- Creating host groups
- Setting up a VMM library
- Configuring networks in VMM
- Networking – configuring logical networks
- Networking – configuring VM networks and gateways
- Networking – configuring logical switches, port profiles, and port classifications
- Integrating and configuring the storage
- Creating a physical computer profile (host profile)
- Provisioning a physical computer as a Hyper-V host – Bare Metal host deployment
- Adding and managing Hyper-V hosts and host clusters
- 6. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services
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7. Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix® XenServer® Hosts
- Introduction
- Adding 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
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8. Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and the New Features of R2
- Introduction
- Creating Hyper-V clusters
- Managing fabric updates
- Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization
- Live migrating virtual machines
- Managing Linux virtual machines
- Configuring availability options and virtual NUMA for VMs
- Configuring resource throttling
- Integrating with the IPAM server for IP management
- Deploying SC App Controller 2012 R2 for hybrid cloud management
- Configuring Synthetic Fibre Channel
- 9. Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2
- 10. Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager
- Index
Product information
- Title: System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782176848
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