System Center 2012 Setup

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The components of system center

• App Controller• Data Protection Manager• Operations Manager• Orchestrator• Service Manager• Virtual Machine Manager• Unified Installer

System center 2012 components

Operations Manager App Controller

Service Manager

Virtual Machine Manager

Orchestrator

Monitoring Portal

Service Management

VM Management

Automation

Hpyervisors: Hyper-V, ESX/ESXi, XenServer

Conventional Compute Storage/Networking Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track

VMVM

VMVM

Virtual cluster#1 Virtual cluster#2

Creating a virtual cluster

VMM Console Service Template Designer

Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Hypervisors: Hyper-V, ESX/ESXi, XenServer

Conventional Compute Storage/Networking

VMVM

Virtual cluster#1

VMM Library

Service Template

VM Template

VM Image

1

2

3

4Create cloud

Define quotas and self-services users

Create base VM images VM templates

Create service templates

Deploying an application

App Controller

Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Hpyervisors: Hyper-V, ESX/ESXi, XenServer

Conventional Compute Storage/Networking

VMM Library

1

3

Verify Request

Create VMsand App instanceVM VM

App App

Application

2

Request a new App

VM Template

Preparing the fabric in VMM

• Configuring host groups– create a host group structure; similar to node group in Windows

HPC cluster. • Configuring the VMM library

– file-based resources : virtual hard disks, ISO images, scripts, driver files

– Non-file-based resources : VM, and service templates and profiles• Configuring networking

– Static IP address pools– MAC address pools

• Configuring storage

Storage resources in VMM

• VMM require storage resources to meet computation requirements– Local storage represents the storage capacity available on

a server.– Remote storage offloads work from the server to an

external storage device. • Storage solution:– Block storage: VMM supports the use of block-level

storage devices that expose LUNs (logic storage)– File storage: VMM supports the use of network shares of

storage.

Adding Hyper-V hosts and host clusters to VMM

• You can add the following types of servers as managed Hyper-V hosts in the complex network environment:– Windows Server computers or Windows Server failover clusters

in an Active Directory domain that is trusted by the domain of the VMM management server

– Windows Server computers or Windows Server failover clusters in an Active Directory domain that is untrusted by the domain of the VMM management server

– Windows Server computers in a perimeter network or in a workgroup (stand-alone computers only)

– Physical computers that do not have an operating system installed

Sample: add Windows server in a trusted active directory domain