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Preface
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Chapter 5, Conguring Fabric Resources in VMM, provides detailed recipes for Fabric
Resources conguration and management, which is extremely powerful when conguring
resources for hosts, virtual machines, and services. It provides information on conguring
and managing the virtualization host, networking, storage, and library resources. The recipes
allow you to get more out of this impressive feature and help you understand the logical ow,
from preparing the infrastructure to making the infrastructure building blocks available to a
private cloud.
Chapter 6, Deploying Virtual Machines and Services, provides information to help the
administrator create, deploy, and manage private clouds, virtual machines, templates, and
services in System Center VMM 2012; it provides recipes to assist you in getting the most
out of deployment.
Chapter 7, Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix
®
XenServer
®
Hosts, provides tips and techniques
to allow you to integrate VMM directly with VMware vCenter Server and Citrix XenServers, to
manage and make their resources available to private cloud deployments. It provides recipes
to help you manage the day-to-day operations of VMware ESX/ESXi and Citrix XenServers
hosts and clusters, such as the discovery and management of hosts and the ability to create,
manage, store, place, and deploy virtual machines and templates, all from the VMM console.
It also provides a recipe to add VMware VCenter to VMM to manage VMware Hosts.
Chapter 8, Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and the New Features
of R2, provides recipes with more improvements provided by the VMM 2012. The chapter also
explores some of the key features of SP1 and R2, such as Linux VMs, the availability options,
resource throttling, and IPAM integration. Additionally, it also provides recipes to integrate VMM
with System Center 2012 R2 App Controller for Hybrid Cloud Management.
Chapter 9, Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2, provides tips and
techniques to allow administrators to integrate SCOM 2012 R2 with VMM when monitoring
the private cloud infrastructure.
Chapter 10, Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager, provides a useful understanding of
VMM PowerShell scripts; they allow you to perform all VMM administrative functions using
commands or scripts. You will also nd some useful sample scripts in this chapter.
What you need for this book
Depending on your scenario, you will need System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
as well as SQL Server (I recommend the 2012 version) installed, as a minimum requirement.
The book also covers System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and SC App Controller;
they will be required depending on the complexity of your scenario. You will also need VMware
vCenter if you plan to integrate and manage ESXi hosts as well as Veeam Management Pack
to monitor them.
Finally, to integrate with Azure, you will need an Azure subscription (for development/test
purposes, you can use the ones that come with the MSDN subscription).