www.it-ebooks.info Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook Over 60 recipes for the administration and management of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook Copyright © 2013 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. 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Summers Acquisition Editor James Jones Lead Technical Editor Azharuddin Sheikh Technical Editors Jalasha D'costa Ishita Malhi Copy Editors Brandt D'Mello Insiya Morbiwala Aditya Nair Ruta Waghmare Project Coordinator Abhishek Kori Proofreaders Joel T. Johnson Chris Smith Indexer Hemangini Bari Production Coordinator Arvindkumar Gupta Cover Work Arvindkumar Gupta www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso is a virtualization and management enthusiast, author, and team leader. He is a subject matter expert in cloud computing and virtualization, and their management. He is strong team player, and pays attention to detail. His major strengths include strong leadership and hands-on skills, excellent communication skills, the ability to manage varied and conicting demands to agreed standards and timelines. He has dutiful respect for compliance in all regulated environments. He also has supervisory skills, which includes hiring skills. He has experience in managing, nding solutions, planning, organizing, and leading complex projects. All of these acquired in 23 years of experience in IT, in roles that span from an Application Developer through Network Manager, Network Security Manager, Systems Engineer, and Technical Consultant, working in segments spanning from government to health, education, and IT sectors. His product skill set includes Microsoft infrastructure technologies such as Hyper-V, System Center, Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, IIS, and Forefront, and he also has sound knowledge of Quest Migration Manager, Linux Infrastructure, Networking, Security Solutions (such as VPN and Firewall), and VMware in complex and large scenarios. He also has a strong grasp of infrastructure and architecture solutions, IT management and industry-related datacenter processes, strategies, and industry regulations and requirements. He has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in virtualization since 2009, he is a well-known speaker at IT-related events such as TechEd, CNASI, Windows Road Shows, and User Groups. He has consistently been a presenter for more than 10 years. He is an active member of Microsoft System Center TAP. He is also an Australian Computer Society (ACS) Certied Professional, a VMware Certied Professional, and also holds certications in MCSE, MCSA, MCT. He was selected as Microsoft TechNet Brazil IT Hero in 2007. He was also awarded the Microsoft IT Heroes Happen award in Los Angeles in 2008. Furthermore, his virtualization project for a governmental institution in Brazil, while working as IT Manager, was selected as a business case by Microsoft. He lead major virtualization, AD, and Exchange projects for large customers is APJ, closely collaborating and liaising with presales and sales teams to ensure order fulllment, client satisfaction, and IT synergies. www.it-ebooks.info As a key member of his team, he proactively shares expertise with peers around the globe, building and maintaining condence of colleagues and customers, developing and nurturing deep expertise in key areas such as private cloud, migration and messages, and collaboration. He has also actively contributed to the development of materials and presentations related to his expertise, the development of best practices, and reusable content to ensure high-quality and consistent delivery of service projects across the globe. He recently reviewed the book Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook, published by Packt Publishing. You can check out his blog at http://virtualizationandmanagement.wordpress. com/ and follow him on Twitter at @edvaldocardoso. www.it-ebooks.info About the Reviewers Steve Buchanan is an infrastructure consultant. He has 13 years of experience in Information Technology around systems management, with a focus on the System Center product suite. Steve authored Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 by Packt Publishing and is the contributing author of the upcoming Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2012 book. Steve is a Microsoft System Center MVP and holds the following certications: A+, Linux +, MCP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCITP: Server Administrator. Steve's blog is located at www.buchatech.com. Kristian Nese works for Microsoft both nationally and globally, and is a speaker and writer. He has experience with technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing, and is considered to be one of the best in this area. He's the CTO at Lumagate, where he works with business development and systems management for their customers while keeping his consultants up to speed on what's hot and interesting. Kristian has written and participated in the development of several books, such as Cloud Computing (in Norwegian), the Microsoft Private Cloud Computing book, and the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook. Thanks to my girlfriend, Kristine, who let me spend time on this project while serving me food and beverage. You are the best, I love you. And thank you Lukas, my son, for being the source of my inspiration through this life, I love you. www.it-ebooks.info Richard Skinner has over ten years' experience in the eld of IT. Since starting as a software developer, he has had a varied career covering many aspects of IT, including Windows desktop deployments, SQL Server database administration, SAN implementation, document management, SharePoint, and Hyper-V. 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Find out when new books are published by following @PacktEnterprise on Twitter, or the Packt Enterprise Facebook page. www.it-ebooks.info Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: VMM 2012 Architecture 7 Introduction 7 Understanding each component for a real-world implementation 10 Designing the VMM server, database, and console 15 Planning for high availability 24 Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario 26 Licensing the System Center 33 Troubleshooting VMM and supporting technologies 34 Chapter 2: Installing SCVMM 2012 43 Introduction 43 Creating service accounts 44 Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for VMM implementation 47 Installing VMM dependencies 53 Conguring distributed key management 55 Installing a VMM management server 59 Installing the VMM console 67 Connecting to a VMM management server by using the VMM console 69 Creating a Run As account's credentials in VMM 71 Conguring ports and protocols on the host rewall for each SCVMM component 74 Chapter 3: Installing the VMM Management Server 79 Introduction 79 Installing a highly available VMM management server 80 Installing a VMM management server on an additional node of a cluster 91 Connecting to a highly available VMM management server by using the VMM console 95 www.it-ebooks.info [...]... of Microsoft virtualization technologies (such as Hyper-V) as well as System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1, System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1, System Center App Controller 2012 SP1, SQL 2012, and Windows 2012 media Who this book is for This book is well suited for presales, solutions architects, technical consultants, business solutions, technical advisors, administrators, and virtualization... private cloud by using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 and its integration components (WSUS and SQL), System Center Operations Manager, and System Center App Controller It is perfect for presales, solutions architects, technical consultants, business solutions, technical advisors, administrators, and virtualization lovers aiming to gain knowledge about the System Center family of products... 285 Live-migrating virtual machines with VMM 2012 SP1 291 Linux virtual machines in VMM 2012 SP1 299 Configuring availability options and virtual NUMA for VMs in VMM 2012 SP1 301 Configuring resource throttling in VMM SP1 306 Deploying SC App Controller 2012 SP1 for hybrid cloud management 311 Index 317 iii www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Preface Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a management... provide an understanding of the underlying Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) modular architecture, which is useful to improve implementation and when troubleshooting the VMM As a reference, this book is based on the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 version The first version of VMM was launched in 2007 and was designed to manage virtual machines The VMM 2012 SP1 version is a huge product change... implementing other System Center family components to complement your design Every System Center component is designed to provide part of the private cloud solution The Microsoft private cloud solution includes the implementation of VMM 2012 plus the following utilities: ff System Center 2012 Unified Installer: This is a utility designed to perform new, clean installations of all System Center 2012 components... corporate compliance and control ff System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager: This provides unified data protection for the Windows environment, delivering protection and restore scenarios from disk, tape, off premise, and from the cloud 12 www.it-ebooks.info Chapter 1 ff System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection: This is built on the System Center Configuration Manager and provides threat detection... 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 and also provides you with recipes to assist you with getting the most out of deployment Chapter 6, Upgrading from SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1, provides recipes to allow you to smoothen the migration process from System Center. .. System Center 2012 Service Manager: This provides flexible self-service experiences and standardized datacenter processes to integrate people, workflows, and knowledge across enterprise infrastructure and applications There's more… When deploying System Center, there are some other systems and configurations you need to consider Domain controllers Although the domain controller is not part of the System. .. to integrate VMM with the other System Center family components By integrating VMM 2012 with Microsoft Server App-V, you can create application profiles that will provide instructions for installing Microsoft App-V applications, Microsoft Web Deploy applications and Microsoft SQL Server data-tier applications (DACs), and for running scripts when deploying a virtual machine as part of a service In VMM,... VMM 2012 Architecture Medium and enterprise environments In a medium- or large-scale environment, the best practice is to split the roles across multiple servers or virtual machines By splitting the components, you can scale out and introduce high availability to the System Center environment In the following design, you can see each component and what role it performs in the System Center Virtual Machine . www.it-ebooks.info Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook Over 60 recipes for the administration and management of Microsoft System Center Virtual. Microsoft virtualization technologies (such as Hyper-V) as well as System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1, System Center Operations Manager 2012