1. System Center 2012 Setup lihui@indiana.edu

2. The components of system center App Controller Data Protection Manager Operations Manager Orchestrator Service Manager Virtual Machine Manager Unified Installer

3. System center 2012 components Operations Manager App Controller Service Manager Virtual Machine Manager Orchestrator Monitoring Portal Service Management VM Management Automation Hpyervisors: Hyper-V, ESX/ESXi, XenServer Conventional Compute Storage/Networking Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track VM Virtual cluster#1 Virtual cluster#2

4. Creating a virtual cluster VMM Console Service Template Designer Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Hypervisors: Hyper-V, ESX/ESXi, XenServer Conventional Compute Storage/Networking VM Virtual cluster#1 VMM Library Service Template VM Template VM Image 1 2 3 4 Create cloud Define quotas and self-services users Create base VM images VM templates Create service templates

5. Deploying an application App Controller Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Hpyervisors: Hyper-V, ESX/ESXi, XenServer Conventional Compute Storage/Networking VMM Library 1 3 Verify Request Create VMs and App instance VM App Application 2 Request a new App VM Template

6. Preparing the fabric in VMM Configuring host groups – create a host group structure; similar to node group in Windows HPC cluster. Configuring the VMM library – file-based resources : virtual hard disks, ISO images, scripts, driver files – Non-file-based resources : VM, and service templates and profiles Configuring networking – Static IP address pools – MAC address pools Configuring storage

7. Storage resources in VMM VMM require storage resources to meet computation requirements – Local storage represents the storage capacity available on a server. – Remote storage offloads work from the server to an external storage device. Storage solution: – Block storage: VMM supports the use of block-level storage devices that expose LUNs (logic storage) – File storage: VMM supports the use of network shares of storage.

8. Adding Hyper-V hosts and host clusters to VMM You can add the following types of servers as managed Hyper-V hosts in the complex network environment: – Windows Server computers or Windows Server failover clusters in an Active Directory domain that is trusted by the domain of the VMM management server – Windows Server computers or Windows Server failover clusters in an Active Directory domain that is untrusted by the domain of the VMM management server – Windows Server computers in a perimeter network or in a workgroup (stand-alone computers only) – Physical computers that do not have an operating system installed

9. Sample: add Windows server in a trusted active directory domain