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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Configuring Fabric – Hosts and Clusters
Fabric is composed from the servers, networks and storages. Hosts group At first we should add our hosts into the separate group. Group: Production Type any name you want. It can be for example name of your datacenter, name or number of the floor or name of the rack. Drag and drop managed hosts and clusters into…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Fabric
In the old days in the old (virtual) datacenter you manually configure a fabric when you need. When the new servers require additional switch you add it. When your cluster require a LUN for CSV you add it. In the cloud world we want to do things automatically so we have to prepare, configure and…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – VMM Configuration Analyzer
After installation of our first System Center product we are ready to test our configuration using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (MBCA). We need to download and install MBCA and Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer that is essentially add-on for the MBCA that contains all current baselines. Do not install it on one of…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Add hosts and clusters to the Fabric
Add hosts to the fabric Now we can add our hosts (our cluster). Add Resources – Hyper-V Hosts and Clusters Use pre-created Run As Account. You should never add hosts using own user credentials or using VMM service account. Now you can search all machines in AD. Pick the whole cluster or standalone Hyper-V host. Default…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Create Run As Account to add and manage Hyper-V hosts
Rules There are a few rules that you should always follow… Do not add hosts using own user credentials. Do not use VMM service account to add hosts. Create account in Active Directory to manage hosts New identity in Domain Users group. scvmmrunashosts Add the account manually to the Local Administrators group on the hosts or…