Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook by CARDOSO, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

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1. VMM 2012 Architecture

Introduction

Knowing your current environment: Assessment Designing the solution Creating the private cloud fabric

Understanding each component for a real-world implementation

Getting ready How to do it… How it works... There's more…

Domain controllers Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) System Center App Controller System Center components scenarios

See also

Designing the VMM server, database, and console

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more...

Storage providers – SMI-S and SMP Bare Metal Configuring security Run As accounts and Run As profiles in VMM Ports communications and protocols for firewall configuration VM storage placement Management cluster Small environment LAB environments Medium and enterprise environments Private cloud sample infrastructure Hosting environments

See also

Planning for high availability

Getting ready How to do it… How it works... There's more…

SQL Server VMM library

Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Licensing the System Center

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Troubleshooting VMM and supporting technologies

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Verifying WMI providers Troubleshooting tools Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) troubleshooting Data collection tools

See also

2. Installing SCVMM 2012

Introduction Creating service accounts

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more…

Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for VMM implementation

Getting ready How to do it... How it works… There's more… See also

Installing VMM dependencies

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more…

SQL Server Connectivity Feature Pack components The Telnet client

See also

Configuring distributed key management

Getting ready How to do it… How it works... See also

Installing a VMM management server

Getting ready How to do it... How it works… See also

Installing the VMM console

Getting ready How to do it... How it works…

Connecting to a VMM management server by using the VMM console

How to do it... How it works… See also

Creating a Run As account's credentials in VMM

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Disabling a Run As account Enabling a disabled Run As account Deleting a Run As account

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

Getting ready How to do it... See also

3. Installing the VMM Management Server

Introduction Installing a highly available VMM management server

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

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

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... See also

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

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... See also

Deploying a highly available library server on a file server cluster

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... See also

Uninstalling a highly available VMM management server

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

4. Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM

Introduction Creating host groups

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Moving a host group to another location Configuring host group properties

See also

Setting up a VMM library

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Adding a library share Adding file-based resources to a VMM library share Creating or modifying equivalent objects in the VMM library

Marking (creating) objects as equivalent Modifying equivalent objects

See also

Networking – configuring logical networks in VMM

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Creating an IP address pool Associating the VMM logical network with the physical adapter

See also

Networking – VM network and gateways with VMM

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Adding a gateway device for VM network support

See also

Networking – configuring ports and switches with VMM

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Creating a native port profile for VM adapters Creating a port classification Adding a virtual switch extension manager Creating a logical switch Configuring the network adapter for VMs and host management

See also

Configuring storage with VMM

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Creating an iSCSI session on a host Bringing the storage pools under management and assigning classifications Configuring the allocation method for a storage array Creating logical units Allocating logical units and storage pools to a host group

See also

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

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... See also

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

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Adding Hyper-V hosts in a disjointed namespace Adding Hyper-V hosts in a perimeter network

Installing the agent on the standalone server Adding perimeter hosts to VMM

See also

5. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services

Introduction Creating private clouds

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Assigning the private cloud to a user role

See also

Creating hardware, guest OS, application, and SQL profiles

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Creating a guest operating system profile Creating an application profile Creating a SQL Server profile

See also

Creating user roles in VMM

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Creating a delegated or read-only administrator user role Creating a tenant administrator role Creating an application administrator (self-service user) role Configuring self-service user roles to share and receive resources

See also

Creating and deploying virtual machines

Getting ready How to do it... How it works… There's more...

Generalizing the guest OS using Sysprep

See also

Creating virtual machine templates

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Enabling MAC spoofing Deploying virtual machines from virtual machine templates

See also

Creating and deploying service templates

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Deploying a service from the VMs and Services workspace Scaling out a service in VMM Updating a service in VMM

See also

Rapidly provisioning a virtual machine by using SAN Copy

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Creating a SAN Copy-capable template Deploying a virtual machine through rapid provisioning

See also

6. Upgrading from SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1

Introduction Reviewing the upgrade options

How to do it...

In-place upgrade from VMM 2008 R2 SP1 to VMM 2012 Upgrading to VMM 2012 or to VMM 2012 SP1 on a different computer Upgrading to VMM 2012 SP1

More planning considerations

How it works... There's more... See also

Checking the VMM system requirements and preparing for the upgrade

Getting ready How to do it...

Uninstalling previous versions of Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) Checking whether Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is started

How it works... There's more...

Upgrading to VMM 2012 SP1

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Upgrading to VMM 2012 SP1 Upgrading a VMM console Upgrading the VMM Self-Service Portal

Uninstalling the VMM Self-Service Portal

See also

Reassociating hosts after upgrading

How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Updating the VMM agents

How to do it... How it works... See also

Performing other post-upgrade tasks

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Updating driver packages Relocating the VMM Library

See also

7. Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager

Introduction VMM PowerShell overview

How to do it...

Installing the VMM PowerShell module Starting VMM PowerShell

How it works... There's more...

Properties Methods Object synchronization

See also

Finding the command to automate tasks in VMM

Getting ready How to do it...

Using the Get-Help cmdlet

How it works... There's more...

About topics

See also

Creating a script from VMM wizards

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Modifying a generated script Adding parameters to a generated script

See also

Storing and running scripts in VMM

Getting ready How to do it...

Storing a script in the VMM library Viewing and updating a script in the VMM library Running a script from the VMM library Running a script from the command prompt

How it works... There's more...

Credentials Using VMM Run As accounts Using the JobGroup parameter Cmdlets with which you can use JobGroup

VMM sample scripts

How to do it...

Counting the number of virtual machines per operating system

How it works... There's more...

Adding a storage provider by its IP address Converting a dynamic VHD to a fixed VHDX Creating a new virtual disk drive and adding it to an existing virtual machine Testing a dynamic VHD attached to a fixed-format virtual disk drive on a virtual machine

See also

8. Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer Hosts

Introduction Adding a VMware vCenter Server to VMM

Getting ready How to do it...

Importing the VMware self-signed SSL certificate Adding vCenter to VMM

How it works... See also

Adding VMware ESX hosts or host clusters to VMM

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Updating the host status to OK

See also

Configuring network settings on a VMware ESX host

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Verifying the settings for a virtual network Viewing compliance information for a physical network adapter

See also

Configuring host BMC settings

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Powering a computer on or off through VMM

See also

Importing VMware templates

How to do it... How it works... See also

Converting VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V

How to do it... How it works... See also

Managing Citrix XenServer hosts and pools

Getting ready How to do it...

Creating a pool on Citrix XenCenter Adding Citrix XenServer Hosts to VMM

How it works... There's more...

Troubleshooting a failed job when adding XenServer hosts

See also

Converting Citrix virtual machines to Hyper-V

How to do it... How it works... See also

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

Introduction Creating Hyper-V clusters with VMM

Prerequisites for cluster creation using VMM 2012 Prerequisites for fabric configuration Network Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Adding a Hyper-V host as a cluster node

See also

Managing fabric updates in VMM

Getting ready How to do it...

Installing WSUS for VMM 2012 Integrating WSUS with VMM

How it works... There's more...

Scanning servers for compliance Remediating updates for a standalone server in VMM Remediating updates for a Hyper-V cluster in VMM

See also

Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in VMM

Getting ready How to do it...

Configuring settings for Dynamic Optimization Configuring settings for Power Optimization

How it works... There's more...

Performing Dynamic Optimization on the host cluster

See also

Live-migrating virtual machines with VMM 2012 SP1

Getting ready

Live migration requirements Live storage migration requirements Live system migration requirements

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Performing live migration of a VM between hosts in two clusters Performing live storage migration between standalone hosts Performing concurrent live migrations

See also

Linux virtual machines in VMM 2012 SP1

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... See also

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

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Configuring Availability Sets for a VM running on a host cluster Configuring preferred and possible owners for a VM Configuring virtual NUMA in VMM 2012 SP1

See also

Configuring resource throttling in VMM SP1

How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Configuring memory throttling Configuring memory weight

See also

Deploying SC App Controller 2012 SP1 for hybrid cloud management

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Connecting to private clouds: integrating with VMM 2012 Connecting to public clouds

See also

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