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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 – 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 – 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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Implementing Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster – Part 7 – Installation of the first VM directly into HA
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we will use the new cluster to host our VMs in the cloud series. The cluster is now configured and we can continue with installation of the virtual machine that will be our the most widely used VM. It will be […]
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Implementing Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster – Part 6 – Final steps
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we will use the new cluster to host our VMs in the cloud series. Re-validate cluster We did a lot of configuration changes so now it is good time to check that we did not make some obvious mistake. Validate a Configuration Wizard […]