System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Author

Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management platform. With System Center 2012, you can easily and efficiently deploy, manage, and monitor a virtualized infrastructure, services, and applications across multiple hypervisors. This can also be done across public and private cloud infrastructures to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.This book will take you through a series of recipes to streamline your System Center VMM architecture. Each section has been discreetly designed to help you simplify, plan, and deploy a highly scalable, high availability virtual infrastructure. The first few sections take you through the design and installation, covering System Center 2012 R2 VMM and Windows 2012 Hyper-V R2 features. Network virtualization, storage integration, and bare metal deployment are also covered in this book.Furthermore, you’ll also learn about the technique of creating and deploying virtual machines from templates; management of Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix XenServers; WSUS integration for remediation; and many other VMM 2012 R2 and Windows 2012 R2 features. Last but not least, the book extends your grasp over various critical functionalities such as upgrading from the previous version of VMM and PowerShell and SQL Server deployment. The book also covers Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center App Controller (SCAC)’s deployment and integration with VMM to ensure that the solution being deployed meets the needs of your business.