System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook, · Design, Configure, and Manage an Efficient Virtual Infrastructure With VMM in System Center 2016, 3rd Edition by CARDOSO, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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VMM 2016 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...

Windows Azure Pack Service Provider Foundation Service Reporting Domain controllers Windows Server Update Service – WSUS System Center App Controller Microsoft Azure Stack System Center components scenarios

Planning for high availability

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

SQL Server VMM library

Designing the VMM server, database, and console implementation

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 in VMM Communications poand protocols for firewall configuration VM storage placement Management cluster Small environment Lab environments Medium and enterprise environments Private cloud sample infrastructure Hosting environments New networking features in VMM 2016 New storage features in VMM 2016

See also

Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario

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

Hardware requirements Software requirements

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

Upgrading from Previous Versions

Introduction Reviewing the upgrade options

How to do it...

In-place upgrade from VMM 2008 R2 SP1 to VMM 2012 Upgrading VMM on a different computer Upgrading from VMM 2012 to VMM 2012 SP1 Upgrading from VMM 2012 SP1 to VMM 2012 R2 Upgrading from VMM 2012 R2 to VMM 2016

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 2016

Getting ready How to do it...

Upgrading to VMM 2012 SP1 or to VMM 2012 R2 Upgrading VMM 2012 R2 to VMM 2016

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

Upgrading VMM with configured AlwaysOn Availability Groups Upgrading a highly available VMM 2012 R2 to VMM 2016 Upgrading a VMM console Upgrading the VMM Self-Service Portal

Uninstalling the VMM Self-Service Portal Upgrading the App Controller

See also

Re-associating 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...

Re-adding PXE servers Updating driver packages Relocating the VMM library

See also

Installing VMM 2016

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...

How to easily get the SQL configuration file Installing a SQL failover cluster using the configuration file Configuring SQL Server with AlwaysOn AGs

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... There's more...

Installing VMM 2016 on Server Core

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 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 VMM component

Getting ready How to do it... See also

Installing a Highly Available VMM Server

Introduction Installing a highly available VMM management server

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

Configure the VMM database with AlwaysOn AGs

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...

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

Configuring Networks in VMM

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

Designing for converged networks

Networking: Configuring Logical Networks

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

Creating an IP address pool Automating the network configuration Associating the VMM Logical Network with the physical adapter

See also

Networking – Configuring VM Networks and Gateways

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

Deploying a Network Controller using VMM Adding a Gateway device, a virtual switch extension or network controller in VMM 2016 Validating a Network Controller deployment

See also

Networking: Configuring logical switches, port profiles and port classifications

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

Creating port profiles for VM adapters Creating a Port Classification Creating a logical switch Configuring the Network Adapter for VMs and host management Applying a logical switch to host network adapters Converting a standard switch to a logical switch

See also

Integrating and configuring the storage

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 (LUN) Allocating logical units and storage pools to a host group

See also

Creating physical computer profile – host profile

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

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

Deploying a hyper-converged cluster with S2D and Hyper-V

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

Managing the storage pool Creating cluster shared volumes Setting storage QoS policies

See also

Configuring Guarded Fabric in VMM

Introduction Deploying the host guardian service

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

Configuring additional HGS cluster nodes

See also

Deploying guarded hosts

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

Preparing shielding helper VHD

See also

Deploying shielded VMs

How to do it...

Preparing and protecting a template disk Creating and importing a shielded data file Creating a shielded VM template Deploying a shielded VM from a template Converting an existing VM to a shielded VM

How it works... See also

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 OS 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...

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

See also

Managing VMware ESXi 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 ESXi 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 ESXi host

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

Verifying the settings for a virtual switch 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 VMs to Hyper-V

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

Managing Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and New Features of VMM 2016

Introduction Creating Hyper-V clusters

Getting ready

Prerequisites for cluster creation using VMM 2016 Prerequisites for fabric configuration Prerequisites for networking

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

Adding a Hyper-V host as a cluster node

See also

Cluster OS rolling upgrade

Getting ready

Prerequisites for cluster rolling upgrade using VMM 2016

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

Managing fabric updates

Getting ready How to do it...

Installing WSUS for VMM 2016 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

Getting ready How to do it...

Configuring settings for Dynamic Optimization (DO) Configuring settings for Power Optimization

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

Performing DO on the host cluster

See also

Live migrating virtual machines

Getting ready

Requirements for Live migration Requirements for Live storage migration Requirements for Live system migration

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

Managing Linux virtual machines

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

Configuring availability options and virtual NUMA for VMs

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 2016 Configuring checkpoints in VMM 2016 Adding a virtual adapter to a running VM in VMM 2016 Managing static memory on a running VM in VMM 2016

See also

Configuring resource throttling

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

Configuring memory throttling Configuring memory weight

See also

Integrating with IPAM Server for IP management

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

IPAM and VMM Time Synchrony

Deploying Windows Azure Pack for cloud management

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

Windows Azure Pack: integrating with VMM 2016

See also

Configuring Synthetic Fiber Channel

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

Creating virtual SANs Creating a VM or VM Template with virtual fiber Channel Editing vSAN port assignments Removing a vSAN Adding a new vHBA Editing vHBA WWNN and WWPN Dynamic Settings

See also

Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2016

Introduction Installing System Center Operations Manager 2016

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

Installing management packs

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

Managing discovery and agents

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

Configuring the integration between Operations Manager 2016 and VMM 2016

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

Enabling PRO tips and maintenance mode integration in VMM 2016

See also

Enabling reporting in VMM

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

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