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7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Module 7
Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

2. Module Overview Adding Hosts and Managing Host Groups 20409A
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Adding Hosts and Managing Host Groups

3. Lesson 1: Integrating System Center and Server Virtualization
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Using the Windows Azure Pack for Self-Service Capabilities

4. Provisioning Server Virtualization with VMM
Compares with
vCenter Server
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
VMM features include:
Multihost support – Hyper-V, Citrix Xenserver, VMware
Intelligent placement
Dynamic optimization
App-V support
Live migration
Delegated administration
Cloud, infrastructure, and services management
Enhanced in System Center 2012 R2 VMM:
Networking, virtual machines in the cloud environment, storage, infrastructure, and support for Windows Server R2 and Windows 8.1

5. Managing Server Virtualization by Using System Center App Controller
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
App Controller:
Replaces the now deprecated VMM self-service portal
Provides delegated access to private and public cloud resources, such as:
Virtual machines
Services
Templates, images
Allows administrators to migrate between VMM, Windows Azure, and service provider data centers

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Monitoring Server Virtualization by Using System Center Operations Manager
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Operations Manager provides:
Application monitoring in both the private and public clouds
Dashboards
Health monitoring
Alerts
Agent and agentless monitoring
Fabric monitoring
By integrating Operations Manager and VMM, you can monitor an entire virtualized environment

7. Integrating System Center Service Manager
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
With Service Manager, you can:
Implement service management, as defined in the ITIL and the Microsoft Operations Framework
Use the built-in process management packs to provide processes for:
Defining templates and workflows
Implementing change requests and change request templates
Manually designing activity templates
Enforcing compliance

8. Automating Tasks with System Center Orchestrator
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Orchestrator provides the ability to:
Automate processes across systems, platforms, and cloud services
Automate best practices
Connect different systems from different vendors
Implement built-in integration packs
Implement end-to-end automation across multiple System Center products
Enhancements in System Center 2012 R2:
Increases multiple runbook workers that combine with Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
Use runbooks to automate tasks with Windows PowerShell

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Using System Center Data Protection Manager to Protect a Server Virtualization Deployment
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
DPM provides:
Disk and tape-based data protection and recovery
Recover bare-metal servers and desktops running Windows operating systems
Central management from the DPM Administrator Console
Role-based access permissions to distribute backup and restore management
Enhancements in System Center 2012 R2:
Windows Azure Backup
SQL Server cluster support
Virtualized deployment
Linux virtual machine backup

10. Using the Windows Azure Pack for Self-Service Capabilities
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Provides the following capabilities:
Management portal for tenants
Management portal for administrators
Service management API
Windows Azure Web site and virtual machine access to private cloud
Service bus communication between applications
Automate and extend custom services

11. Lesson 2: Overview of System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
VMM Architecture
Determining Topology for a VMM Deployment

12. Introducing System Center 2012 R2 VMM
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Introducing System Center 2012 R2 VMM
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Significant enhancements in the following areas:
Enterprise-class performance
Support for up to 1,000 host and 25,000 virtual machines
Dynamic VHDX resize
Automatic upgrade Hyper-V clusters with Live Migration
Enhanced support for Citrix and VMware hosts
Simplified provisioning and migration
Storage improvements
Bare-metal provisioning
Multitenant cloud infrastructure
Provisioning Windows Azure infrastructure

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Fabric Management
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Network management
Power management
Storage management
Hyper-V bare metal provisioning
Dynamic Optimization
Monitoring Integration
Update management
Hyper-V, Citrix, VMware
Fabric Management
Fabric includes network and storage infrastructure, host computers and groups, and WDS and WSUS servers
Aggregates and abstracts everything into resources that can be consumed and deployed
Accessed by administrator and designated user roles in private cloud resource allocation 13

14. Hosts (1000 Per Management Server)
VMM Architecture
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
SQL
App Controller
Management Console
Hosts (1000 Per Management Server)
Management Server
Library

15. VMM Architecture Compares with vCenter Heartbeat SQL Cluster
Management Console
NLB App Controller
Hosts (1000 Per Management Server)
Management Server Cluster
Library on Clustered File Server

16. Determining Topology for a VMM Deployment
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Windows Azure
App Controller
Branch Office VMM Servers
VMM Server
SQL database Server
VMM Console
Library Server
WSUS Server
WDS Server
Hyper-V Host
Citrix XenServer Host
ESX Host
VMware vCenter Server

17. Lesson 3: Adding Hosts and Managing Host Groups
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Deploying Hyper-V Hosts to Bare-Metal Computers

18. What Are Host Groups? Allows collective management of physical hosts
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Allows collective management of physical hosts
Can nest host groups: Parent-Child inheritance applies
Configurable properties include:
Naming & moving group, allow unencrypted file transfers
Placement rules: Virtual machine must, should, must not or should not match the host
Host reserves: Can reserve various resources for host alone
Includes CPU, Memory, Disk I/O and space, Network I/O
Dynamic optimization – for determining vm load
Resource default: CPU 30%, RAM 512MB, Disk I/O 0%
Power optimization included
Network: Can assign varied network resources: IP pools, load balancers, logical networks & MAC pools
Storage: Can assign storage pools and logical units resources

19. Deploying Hyper-V Hosts to Bare-Metal Computers
7: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Physical computer without an operating system installed is installed AND deployed as physical host
Requirements:
Network adapter PXE-enabled; PXE server in domain
BIOS set to PXE-boot first
BMCs have proper credentials
Host profile must already exist
MAC address discovered for static IP assignment; VMM SP1 and R2 offer Deep Discovery – automates IP assignment
Uses Fabric workspace, Add Resource Wizard, to launch deployment