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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   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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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782176848
Length 428 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. VMM 2012 Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Upgrading from Previous Versions 3. Installing VMM 2012 R2 4. Installing a High Available VMM Server 5. Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM 6. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services 7. Managing VMware ESXi and Citrix® XenServer® Hosts 8. Managing Hybrid Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and the New Features of R2 9. Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 10. Scripting in Virtual Machine Manager Index

Creating and deploying service templates


In VMM 2012, a service is a set of VMs configured and deployed together and managed as a single entity. For example, it's like deploying a three-tier business application or a frontend web application with SQL Server running in the background.

A service template provides the capability to separate the OS configuration from the application installation, leaving you with fewer OS images.

Using service templates, you will be able to leverage variations in capacity, easily being able to add or remove VMs needed to support the application.

Tip

It is the best practice to wrap even a single VM template into a service template as you scale it out, for example.

Getting ready

Ensure that the resources that you need in order to create the service are available. Review and document all the elements that the service needs to be up and running before starting. For example, identify the following:

  • What servers need to be deployed to support the service

  • Which existing VM...

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