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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…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Uninstallation and decommission
In the previous articles we did a simple deployment of the VMM to a single server with Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 and single server with SQL Server 2012 SP1. If you deployed your VMM on a single server and now you want to do a complex deployment or if you have any other reason…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 installation – Complex deployment
This is highly-available (fault-tolerant) deployment. For simple deployment please go back to the previous article. Install guest (virtual) failover cluster Please continue to the Building guest (virtual) failover cluster series to learn how to create guest cluster from the virtual machines. Prerequisites Cluster: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Two nodes Failover Clustering Storages Witness disk: One…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 installation – Simple deployment
This is simple deployment on the one highly available (clustered) VM. This is not guide for the highly available (fault-tolerant) deployment. For complex deployment please continue to the next article. Install and configure SQL Server Highly-available databases in AlwaysOn Available Groups I recommend you to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Available Groups for…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Virtual Machine Manager – Design
It is not always easy to divide Low-level Design and High-Level Design. How to differentiate between high-level and low-level design depends on the entity that we refer to. When we need to design our cloud then high-level decision could be for example choice of the technology that makes our SQL Servers highly-available. But when we…