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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Library Assets – Hardware and Guest OS Profiles
The principle of the library is to be able to create a lot pieces of Lego that you can use and assemble a whole product (VM, service). This is giving a great flexibility because in the future you can easily add or modify one piece of the Lego and easily create or modify the final…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Create Cloud
Now we can create our first cloud. Are you ready? Capability Profiles Capability Profiles are hardware profiles for different hypervisors. You specify details for Hyper-V, Xen and ESXi. In our case we do not have to change anything but the knowledge what is the capability profile will be important in the next steps. Create first…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Set VM Network on the virtual machine
Add VM Network to the VM VM – Properties – Hardware Configuration – Network Adapters – <One of the network adapters> Not using network virtualization (Hyper-V isolation)… Connectivity (o) Connected to a VM Network Select VM Network. Select Logical Switch. Select Port Classification. Using network virtualization (Hyper-V isolation)… Connectivity (o) Connected to a VM Network…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Network configuration on Hyper-V hosts
Now we need to add network objects that we created (Logical Switches) to our hosts. You can automate the whole process by Physical Computer Profile or by PowerShell and for example modify all hosts in the same group. In my case I have a single cluster with two nodes so when I remove old Hyper-V…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – IP Pools for the VM Networks
IP Pool for the VM Network (network virtualization only) You cannot create IP Pools for the VM Networks that are not using network virtualization. VM Networks without network virtualization are using IP Pools of underlying Logical Network. If you want to automatically distribute IP addresses to the VMs on virtualized network and there is no…