Table Of ContentSystem Center 2012
R2 Virtual Machine
Manager Cookbook
Second Edition
Over 70 recipes to help you design, configure, and
manage a reliable and efficient virtual infrastructure
with VMM 2012 R2
Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine
Manager Cookbook
Second Edition
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Credits
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Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Aaron S. Lazar
Reviewers
Proofreaders
Marin Frankovic
Bridget Braund
Tomica Kaniski
Ameesha Green
Richard Skinner
Lauren Harkins
Carmen Summers
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About the Author
Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso is passionate about technology, an evangelist, and
a subject matter expert on cloud, virtualization, and management. He is an author and
also a speaker at key technical events in Australia and New Zealand.
He has been the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Hyper-V since 2009. He leads
major virtualization, UC&C, and AD and Exchange projects for large customers in APJ,
closely collaborating and liaising with presales and sales teams to ensure client satisfaction
and IT synergies. He has experience working within multigeographic and virtual teams.
He has in-depth knowledge across the Microsoft and VMware technologies stack. He
holds the Microsoft MCSE+S and VMware VCP certifications. He also has experience
leading complex global projects in his 24-year career in IT; he has worked in segments
spanning the government, health, education, and IT services sectors.
He is an established manager with extensive leadership experience in all facets of IT
management and functional management practices.
He recently authored the book, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
Cookbook (http://wp.me/p15Fu3-mK), and reviewed the books, Windows Server 2012
Hyper-V Cookbook, Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design, and VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook,
all by Packt Publishing.
He is a blogger at http://cloudtidings.com/. You can also follow him on Twitter:
@cloudtidings.
Acknowledgments
This book covers the newest VMM 2012 R2 version. Developing and updating this book was
a real challenge. I have worked so hard to gather and put the content together, deploying
the solutions, validating test scenarios, investigating, and also reporting issues back to MS,
to provide you with a useful, accurate, and worth-the-time master resource. It has been an
amazing journey, and I greatly appreciate all those who gave me their full support.
First and foremost, I would like to dedicate this book to my father, Olimpio, and the memory
of my mother, Celcina, and especially to my kids—Matheus, Lucas, and Nicole—and my
beautiful wife, Daniele, who encouraged me in all my endeavors. Thank you for the ongoing,
full support, encouragement, inspiration, and for letting me take my time away from you to
work on this project. I love you all.
I could not have finished this book without help from the Microsoft System Center and
Microsoft Virtualization (Hyper-V) team in Redmond: Ben Armstrong and Travis Wright (now
working for Cireson). In addition, as I wanted this book to be reviewed by the Microsoft System
Center team, I would like to acknowledge and thank Nigel Cain and Carmen Summers from
the Microsoft System Center and Virtualization team, not only for endorsing my participation
in the TAP program, but also for their assistance; they worked beyond their work hours to
review the book and provide great feedback, which helped me improve the content, adding
substantial value to this book. I cannot forget Vijay Tewari and Christa Anderson. Thank you
for the feedback on the first edition. The readers will truly appreciate that!
In addition, I would like to thank my fellow Hyper-V and System Center MVPs, as well as
Tomica Kaniski, Richard Skinner, Steve Buchanan, Kristian Nese, and Marin Frankovic
for their feedback.
I also had support from the Veeam team, who provided me with early access to the Veeam
Management pack for SCOM and also gave great insights about their product.
I would also like to thank the Packt Publishing team involved in this project, especially
those who helped and guided my efforts to make certain that the content was consistent
and of a high quality. Thank you for the opportunity to work on this great project.
Finally, thank you for choosing and purchasing the System Center 2012 R2 Virtual
Machine Manager Cookbook, Second Edition. It is a valuable resource to help you deploy
and manage your own private cloud. I will be waiting for your feedback. You can follow
my blog at http://cloudtidings.com, and my Twitter handle is @cloudtidings.
About the Reviewers
Marin Frankovic was born in 1976 in Makarska, Croatia, where he completed elementary
and a part of high school. He graduated from high school in the U.S.A., where he attended
his senior year as an exchange student. In 2003, he earned his Master of Economics (mag.
oec.) degree from Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he
majored in business computing. As a student, he volunteered in the faculty's IT department
for a year as technical support. After obtaining his degree, Marin started as Microsoft MOC
and an IBM ACE instructor in the largest private IT education company, Algebra. There, he
also started as a consultant for infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing based
on Microsoft technologies. Later on, when Algebra opened a private college for applied
computing, he took on a position as the head of the operating systems department and took
responsibility for creating course curriculums and managing several lecturers and assistants.
He also gives lectures on several key courses in system administration track. Microsoft
honored him with the MVP title for System Center and Datacenter Management five years
in a row. He is a regular speaker at all regional conferences such as Windays, KulenDayz,
MobilityDay, NT Konferenca, MS Network, DevArena, and so on.
In 2011, Marin was awarded with the Microsoft ISV award for his contribution to the Microsoft
community. He regularly writes technical articles for the Mreža IT magazine. His main interests
today are cloud computing, virtualization as its core component, and resource consolidation
based on Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server and System Center applications.
Tomica Kaniski has been active in IT for about 10 years. He started out as a web designer
and web developer, did some Windows development during his college days, and then finally
discovered his true passion—systems administration on the Microsoft platform. Systems
administration, virtualization, deployment, management… you name it, and he has been
doing it since 2008, and also teaching about it since 2011 as a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
In 2009, he passed his first MCP exam and became a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Certification is something that he continued doing through the years, and he now has
certificates, titles, and knowledge about almost the entire Microsoft product portfolio.
In 2010, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP title in Management Infrastructure expertise,
and after two years, he switched to Virtual Machine, and is now a Hyper-V MVP. He is strongly
engaged with communities worldwide—he is one of the community leads in Croatia and part
of the Azure Insiders and Azure Advisors communities.
During this time, he has been continuously providing consultation, implementation, and
support services for several companies, not necessarily located in Croatia or the region.
Nowadays, you can find him presenting at various local and regional conferences, user group
meetings, and other events. You can say that he is fully engaged with Microsoft products and
technologies (with a focus on Windows Server, virtualization, System Center, and Azure), and
mostly interested in products that are yet to be released.
In his spare time, he plays the bass guitar and also likes to read and travel.
Tomica has also participated in the peer-reviewing of the book, Introducing Windows Server
2012, Mitch Tulloch, Microsoft Press, and done technical reviewing on Wiley's Windows Server
2012 MOAC courseware.
I would like to thank my family and my girlfriend for their patience and
constant support.
Richard Skinner has over 10 years of experience in the field of IT. Since starting as
a software developer, he has had a varied career covering many aspects of IT, including
Windows desktop deployment, SQL Server database administration, SAN implementation,
document management, SharePoint, and Hyper-V. He is a blogger at http://richardstk.
com and his Twitter handle is @_richardstk.
Carmen Summers has an extensive background in large-scale data center operations.
Her experience includes program management, project management, and project engineering
in the information technology and services and computer software industries. Before joining
Microsoft, she served in the USAF for eight years, where she worked as an IT administrator
within the Medical Information Systems field. After leaving the USAF, she joined a large-scale
data center operations service provider, where she specialized in managing global patch
management operations and was also an Account Chief Technologist. Carmen joined Microsoft
in 2007 as a Senior Program Manager on System Center Virtual Machine Management, and
in 2013, she transitioned to a customer-facing role that focuses on System Center, Windows
Server, and Azure.
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