1. Managing Clouds with VMM
11: Managing Clouds in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Module 11
Managing Clouds with VMM

2. Module Overview Working With User Roles in Virtual Machine Manager
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Working With User Roles in Virtual Machine Manager

3. Lesson 1: Introduction to Clouds
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Lesson 1: Introduction to Clouds
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Example of a Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Cloud

4. What Is a Cloud? Is also known as cloud computing
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What Is a Cloud?
Is also known as cloud computing
Enables sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale
Uses the Internet, Internet standards, and protocols
Can provide various resources such as virtual machines, storage, apps, services including databases, programs, and systems

5. What Are Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds?
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Public
On-demand computing delivered through the Internet with Internet standards and protocols
Makes resources available to users anywhere
Users do not need their own infrastructure
Users run apps, services, or virtual machines remotely, running on the cloud vendor’s infrastructure
Private
Organizations use their own infrastructure but integrate with certain resources of the cloud vendor
Hybrid
Makes resources available to only its users
Users run apps, services, or virtual machines remotely, running on the organization’s infrastructure

6. Virtualization and the Cloud
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Private cloud is more than just virtualization
Critical components of virtualization:
Server consolidation
Easy deployment
Elasticity and scalability
Multiple tenets
High availability and mobility
Private cloud requires more:
Automated management
Pools of compute resources
Self-service provisioning
Usage-based chargeback

7. Clouds in System Center 2012 R2 VMM
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Clouds in System Center 2012 R2 VMM
Details of fabric are hidden
Easy to define quota limits
New Tenant Administrator role
On-premises can be within the organization or somewhere else

8. Example of a Cloud Enhanced storage Enhanced networking RBA
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Example of a Cloud
Enhanced storage
Automate SAN
iSCSI or Fibre
Enhanced networking
Switch zoning
IPAM
Site-to-site network connections using private IP address
RBA
Live cloning
AdatumCloud
ResearchGroup
DevGroup

9. Lesson 2: Creating and Managing a Cloud
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Managing a Cloud

10. Configuring Cloud Resources
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Configuring Cloud Resources
Hardware
Storage: SAN, Fibre, disk, libraries, .iso files
Networking, Logical LANs, load balancers, vIP
Memory
CPUs
Software
Databases, apps, large applications
Physical hosts
Virtual machines

11. Configuring Cloud Capacity
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Uses quotas
Specifies maximum usage allowed by default
Can be throttled back by a lesser amount
Applies to:
Virtual CPUs
Memory
Storage
Custom quota points
Virtual machines
Can add more capacity

12. Configuring Cloud Capability
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Configuring Cloud Capability
Capability built on capacity profiles
Provides built-in fabric capability
Assignment based on the hypervisor platform
Can use one, any, or all three
Can also make custom capacity profiles
VMware ESX Server
Microsoft Hyper-V
XenServer, Citrix Xen Hosts

13. Managing a Cloud Chargeback and governance of resource usage
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Chargeback and governance of resource usage
Private cloud application performance monitoring
GSM ensures applications are always up and always on
SLA-based

14. Lesson 3: Working With User Roles in VMM
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Lesson 3: Working With User Roles in VMM
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Connecting to Virtual Machine Manager by Using Different User Roles

15. What Are User Roles in Virtual Machine Manager?
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What Are User Roles in Virtual Machine Manager?
User roles contain:
Profiles
Members
Scope
Network
Cloud quotas
Resources
Permissions
Run-As accounts
Depending on profile selected

16. Objects and Actions that Can Be Delegated
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The resources (objects) available in a private cloud are:
Virtual CPUs
Memory
Storage
Custom Quota (Points)
Virtual Machines
Data paths
The actions you can allow for these resources are:
Author
Checkpoint (snapshots)
Checkpoint (Restore Only)
Deploy
Deploy (From Template only)
Local Administrator
Pause and Resume
Receive
Remote Connection
Remove
Save
Share
Shut down
Start
Stop
Store

17. User Role Profiles Preexisting Administrator role
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Preexisting Administrator role
Fabric administrator:
Formerly, Delegated Administrator
May still show up in technical references
Read-only administrator
Tenant administrator:
New user role in VMM 2012 SP1
Application administrator:
Formerly known as Self-Service User