Configure Private Cloud VM Compute Fabric with System Center 2012 SP1 VMM - Build Your Private Cloud

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To be effective, Private Clouds need to embrace the virtualization technologies that you have currently deployed in your datacenter and permit you to manage them as a single compute fabric, rather than getting locked in to separately managing silos of virtualization technologies.

Don’t get me wrong … Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 certainly offer tremendous cost-effective enterprise scale benefits when it comes time to expand the virtualization capacity in your datacenter. BUT …  System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager allows you to deliver a Private Cloud TODAY by deploying and managing VMs on existing virtualization hosts, whether those hosts are running Hyper-V, VMware 4.1 / 5.1 and/or Citrix XenServer 6.0 / 6.1 - all from a single point of Private Cloud management!

In the video below, Yung Chou and I show how to configure a Private Cloud compute fabric in System Center 2012 SP1 VMM.  Join us as we step through the process of adding and configuring hosts, clusters, and host resources across Hyper-V, VMware and Citrix XenServer to provide a unified compute fabric that you can consistently scale and manage across your datacenter.

Configure VM Compute Fabric in System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager

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Specific topics in this session include:

  • [ 01:30 ] Recap: Building a Private Cloud
  • [ 04:15 ] Configuring the Compute Fabric in Virtual Machine Manager
  • [ 09:22 ] DEMO: Adding Hosts & Clusters in VMM – Windows Server
  • [ 18:40 ] DEMO: Bare Metal Deployment – Hyper-V Hosts Only
  • [ 27:40 ] DEMO: Adding Hosts & Clusters in VMM – Citrix XenServer and VMware vCenter
  • [ 31:46 ] DEMO: How to Manage Host Resources

What’s Next?

After reviewing this video, get prepared to explore the Private Cloud management capabilities of System Center 2012 for yourself in this series with these downloadable resources:

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- Keith