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Virtual Machine Manager hosts

scug-admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:49:23 GMT

A virtual machine host is a physical computer that hosts one or more virtual machines. Before creating virtual machines by using VMM, you need to add one or more hosts to VMM. After the hosts are added to VMM, you can manage the hosts and the virtual machines that are on the hosts. You can use host groups to adjust the amount of resources reserved for the host operating system on different hosts and to make hosts available for users through virtual machine Self-Service. You can also use host groups to enable automatic placement of virtual machines on the best host in a group of hosts. A host group is a scope for delegation, and you can define what host groups a user role can administrate.

You can manage the following hosts by using VMM:

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a host server virtualization technology. It is engineered for the Windows Server 2003 platform and runs most x86-based operating systems in a guest environment.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization platform that Microsoft has included with Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V provides support for 32-bit and 64-bit guest virtual machines.
VMware ESX. VMM interacts with VI3 to enable the management of VMware virtual machines running on ESX. You can use VMware VC for a VMware server to manage VMware hosts.

Virtual Machine Manager host

scug-admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:47:58 GMT

You can manage the following hosts by using VMM:

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a host server virtualization technology. It is engineered for the Windows Server 2003 platform and runs most x86-based operating systems in a guest environment.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization platform that Microsoft has included with Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V provides support for 32-bit and 64-bit guest virtual machines.
VMware ESX. VMM interacts with VI3 to enable the management of VMware virtual machines running on ESX. You can use VMware VC for a VMware server to manage VMware hosts

Virtual Machine Manager host

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:46 GMT

You can manage the following hosts by using VMM:

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a host server virtualization technology. It is engineered for the Windows Server 2003 platform and runs most x86-based operating systems in a guest environment.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization platform that Microsoft has included with Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V provides support for 32-bit and 64-bit guest virtual machines.
VMware ESX. VMM interacts with VI3 to enable the management of VMware virtual machines running on ESX. You can use VMware VC for a VMware server to manage VMware hosts

Virtual Machine Manager host

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:44:05 GMT

You can manage the following hosts by using VMM:

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a host server virtualization technology. It is engineered for the Windows Server 2003 platform and runs most x86-based operating systems in a guest environment.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization platform that Microsoft has included with Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V provides support for 32-bit and 64-bit guest virtual machines.
VMware ESX. VMM interacts with VI3 to enable the management of VMware virtual machines running on ESX. You can use VMware VC for a VMware server to manage VMware hosts

Virtual Machine Manager host

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:42:51 GMT

You can manage the following hosts by using VMM:

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a host server virtualization technology. It is engineered for the Windows Server 2003 platform and runs most x86-based operating systems in a guest environment.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization platform that Microsoft has included with Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V provides support for 32-bit and 64-bit guest virtual machines.
VMware ESX. VMM interacts with VI3 to enable the management of VMware virtual machines running on ESX. You can use VMware VC for a VMware server to manage VMware hosts

Physical Resource Optimization

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:15 GMT

PRO provides workload-aware and application-aware resource optimization within host clusters. VMM and SCOM manage the host clusters. The VMM Administrator Console provides you with access to PRO tips that you can implement for optimizing data centers. The PRO tips allow you to automatically implement actions such as virtual machine migration or virtual machine right-sizing, based on policies implemented through SCOM. The automatic implementation of PRO tips allows VMM to transfer the virtual machines between the hosts in a cluster.

The following are the infrastructure requirements for implementing PRO tips:

SCOM 2007 with SC VMM 2008 Management Packs
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V host cluster with Host Pro enabled for the cluster

Intelligent Placement

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:43:39 GMT

Intelligent Placement is a feature in VMM that helps you to identify the physical machine that is the best choice for virtual machine placement. You can use Intelligent Placement on both Microsoft and VMware servers. Regardless of your organizational goals, you need to select the appropriate virtual server host for a given workload to maximize the utilization of physical assets.

Intelligent Placement uses the following criteria to make placement recommendations:

Characteristics of the workload’s resource consumption
Minimum CPU, RAM, disk, and network capacity requirements
Performance data from virtual machine hosts

VMM uses the Intelligent Placement feature to provide you with a list of hosts. VMM also indicates the most appropriate host for the given workload. However, you need to choose a suitable host for the virtual machine.

Virtual Machine Template

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:31:10 GMT

Templates represent common virtual machine configuration. A virtual machine template is a library resource that consists of a guest operating system profile, a hardware profile, and one or more VHDs. You can use templates to create sets of virtual machines that share the same hardware and software configuration. You can create templates specifically for self-service users.

You can use virtual machine templates to enable faster deployment of new machines. You can also use the templates to ensure the usage of standard hardware and software configurations. A virtual machine template helps you to create an automated and quick method to set up a new virtual machine, including server requirements such as server applications.

You can create a virtual machine template based on an existing VHD, an existing template, or an existing virtual machine that is deployed on a host server.

Virtual Machine Library

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:30:27 GMT

The VMM library is a catalog of resources to create and configure virtual machines in VMM 2008. The VMM library contains files stored on library shares, and it contains operating system, hardware, and template configurations stored in the VMM database.

The VMM library resources include:

File-based resources such as virtual hard disks, virtual floppy disks, ISO images, and post-deployment customization scripts.
Resources such as hardware profiles, guest operating system profiles, and virtual machine templates that are used to create standard virtual machines.

You can store virtual machines in the library when they are not in use.

For geographically dispersed organizations, you can use the VMM library to manage file-based resources that are located on multiple library servers within an environment. You can build a collection of ISO image files, virtual machine templates, and scripts that simplify the process of creating and managing virtual machines.

Virtual Machine

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:29:12 GMT

A virtual machine helps you to run different operating system environments on a single host system. If configured accordingly, virtual machines communicate with each other by using a virtual network.

A virtual machine is similar to an existing client computer. However, it does not run on dedicated hardware, but shares the hardware of the host system with other virtual machines that run on the host.

You can assign hard drives, virtual networks, DVD drives, and other system components to virtual machines on that host. You can also run applications on different operating systems, simultaneously, on the same client computer.

The following components are required to run a virtual machine in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V:

Virtual Machine Configuration File. This file includes hardware settings of a virtual machine.
Virtual Disk. This is a virtual hard disk that includes the operating system.

scvmm system requirements

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:27:40 GMT

The hardware and software requirements for installing VMM differ based on system configuration and the VMM components that you install on your system.

The following are the minimum system hardware requirements for installing VMM on a single computer:

An x64 architecture–based server with a processor speed of 2.8 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, with a hardware-assisted virtualization support enabled in the basic input/output system (BIOS)
2 gigabytes (GB) of random access memory (RAM)
200 GB of available hard disk space

The following are the software requirements for installing VMM:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or higher that includes Hyper-V
Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or 3.0
SQL Server 2005 Express, Standard, or Enterprise Edition, with Service Pack 2 installed separately
Windows PowerShell 1.0
Windows Remote Management
Active Directory—the VMM server must be domain-joined
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) version 7.0 only for the Self-Service Portal

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

alkin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:25:26 GMT

VMM is a stand-alone server application for managing a virtual environment running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server, and VMware. By using VMM, you can centrally manage physical and virtual machine infrastructures through a single console.

VMM 2008 features PRO, which extends the administrator-set rules and policies of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 to VMM 2008. Based on the information collected by SCOM 2007, virtual machines can be distributed across host servers with the available resources.

You can also integrate VMM 2008 with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) to provide backup and recovery services for virtual machines. By using DPM, you can perform snapshot-based backups of virtual machines running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.