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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Configuring Fabric – Storages
Now you can define you storages. For the cloud scenario it is important to have direct management access to you storage devices because in order to have automatic, flexible and scalable environment you have to be able to manage your storage resources from the VMM server using the particular API. In my case I do not…
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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 – 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…