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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

Over 70 recipes to help you design, configure, and manage a reliable and efficient virtual infrastructure with VMM 2012 R2.

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    This book is a step-by-step guide packed with recipes that cover architecture design and planning. The book is also full of deployment tips, techniques, and solutions.
    If you are a solutions architect, technical consultant, administrator, or any other virtualization enthusiast who needs to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a real-world environment, then this is the book for you.
    We assume that you have previous experience with Windows 2012 R2 and Hyper-V.

    What you will learn

    • Plan and design a VMM architecture for realworld deployment
    • Configure network virtualization, gateway integration, storage integration, resource throttling, and availability options
    • Integrate SC Operations Manager (SCOM) with VMM to monitor your infrastructure
    • Integrate SC APP Controller (SCAC) with VMM to manage private and public clouds (Azure)
    • Deploy clusters with VMM Bare Metal
    • Create and deploy virtual machines from templates
    • Deploy a highly available VMM Management server
    • Manage HyperV, VMware, and Citrix® from VMM
    • Upgrade from previous VMM versions

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. VMM Architecture
    2. Upgrading from SCVMM 2008R2 SP1
    3. Installing VMM 2012 R2
    4. Installing a Highly Available VMM Management Server
    5. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services
    6. Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM
    7. Managing VMware ESX Hosts and XenServer hosts
    8. Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Creating Clusters and R2 new features
    9. Integration with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
    10. Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78217-685-5
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 428