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MicrosoftOcialCourse

Module 9Creating and Managing VirtualMachines by Using Microsoft

System Center 2012 2 Virtual

Machine Manager

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Module O!er!ie"

Virtual Machine Management #as$s in VMM

Creating% Cloning% and Con!erting VirtualMachines

O!er!ie" of Virtual Machine U&dating

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'esson 1( Virtual Machine Management#as$s in VMM

)ctions for O&erating and Managing Virtual

Machines

*emonstration( O&erating Virtual Machines

O!er!ie" of Virtual Machine +ro&erties

,hat -s a Virtual Machine Chec$&oint.

*emonstration( Creating and ManagingChec$&oints

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)ctions for O&erating and Managing VirtualMachines

/e" ribbon a!ailable for ease of useicons on ribbon corres&ond to contetmenu items

ightclic$ !irtual machine for &o&u&contet menu

Some items are grayed out% de&endingon !irtual machine statesto&&ed or

running Clic$ing certain items brings u& contet

menus% "i3ards% and other items +o"er On% Shut *o"n% +o"er O4% eset

icons are similar to &hysical com&uter

buttons

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*emonstration( O&erating VirtualMachines

-n this demonstration% you "ill see ho" to

o&erate a !irtual machine

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O!er!ie" of Virtual Machine +ro&erties

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,hat -s a Virtual Machine Chec$&oint.

) nonchec$&ointed 5!hd65!hd 7le

Chec$&oint creates 5a!hd65a!hd 7le

)ll subse8uent changes are "ritten to the5a!hd65a!hd 7le

,hen re!erted% the and 5a!hd65a!hd 7le isdeleted

5!hd 5a!hdChec$&oint

5!hd 5a!hdChec$&oint

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*emonstration( Creating and ManagingChec$&oints


create and manage chec$&oints

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'esson 2( Creating% Cloning% andCon!erting Virtual Machines

Creating Virtual Machines in VMM

Con7guring Virtual Machine +lacement inVMM

*emonstration( Creating and *e&loying /e"

Virtual Machines

,hat -s Virtual Machine Cloning.

Considerations for Virtual Machine Cloning

*emonstration( +erforming Virtual MachineCloning

Con!erting a +hysical Machine

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Creating Virtual Machines in VMM

Use the Create

Virtual Machine,i3ard

Can use eistingresources such as!irtual machines%tem&lates% 5!hds

Create a brand ne"!irtual machine

Con7gure ard"are&age &ro!idesmany o&tions

-ntelligent&lacement on host

C 7 i i l hi l i

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Con7guring Virtual Machine +lacement inVMM

VMM(

:!aluates a host;s ca&acity and &erformance )utomatically &laces a !irtual machine on

the most suitable host

Ma$es star rating recommendations through

intelligent &lacement

* i C i d * l i

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*emonstration( Creating and *e&loying/e" Virtual Machines


create a ne" !irtual machine and thende&loy it on a host

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,hat -s Virtual Machine Cloning.

) ra&id "ay to de&loy a !irtual machine

Co&ies the 5!hd65!hd% con7guration 7les%and memory contents

Original can be online if using SystemCenter 2012 2 Virtual Machine Manager

#he cloned !irtual machine is an eactco&y "ith the same identity

Virtual Machine Virtual Machine

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Considerations for Virtual Machine Cloning

#he cloned !irtual machine has the same

name and domain S-* of the original!irtual machine

)fter cloning% run Sys&re&% or manually

change to uni8ue settings and !alues :nsure sucient dis$ s&ace eists on host

* t ti + f i Vi t l

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*emonstration( +erforming VirtualMachine Cloning


clone a !irtual machine

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Con!erting a +hysical Machine

VMM no longer su&&orts +2V

)s an alternati!e% use( Sysinternals *is$2!hd Other nonMicrosoft tools

,h t - th Mi ft Vi t l M hi

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,hat -s the Microsoft Virtual MachineCon!erter Solution )ccelerator.

) free do"nloadable solution accelerator

from Microsoft

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'esson =( O!er!ie" of Virtual MachineU&dating

Methods for Maintaining Soft"are U&dates

O!er!ie" of Virtual Machine +re&aration

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Methods for Maintaining Soft"are U&dates

,indo"s U&dates site Can be set to automatic% but no "ay to

centrally monitor and manage

,SUS% a ser!er role on ,indo"s Ser!er2012 and 2012 2 /eeds administrati!e o!ersight% but !ery

con7gurable and &ro!ides central testing andde&loyment

System Center 2012 Con7guration

Manager% and System Center 2012 2Con7guration Manager More com&le% but more featurerich than

,SUS% good for those organi3ations thatalready use Con7guration Manager

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O!er!ie" of Virtual Machine +re&aration

Set o>ine !irtual machines to use *C+

:nsure integration ser!ices are installed

:nable 7re"all ece&tions ?ile and +rint Sharing

,M-

emote )dministration

-ncoming :cho for -CM+ -+!@ and -+!A

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Using System Center 2012 2 Virtual MachineManager

:ercise 1( Creating a Virtual Machine and

Modifying -ts +ro&erties

:ercise 2( Cloning a !irtual machine

'ogon -nformation

Virtual machines( 20@09B'O/OS#120@09B'O/*C1

20@09B'O/VMM1User name( Adatum\Administrator+ass"ord( Pa$$w0rd

:stimated #ime( =0 minutes

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'ab Scenario

)5 *atum Cor&oration has im&lemented a y&erV

!irtuali3ation &latform in all four subsidiaries% andhas de&loyed System Center 2012 2 VMM5 #heyha!e also added ser!ers% and net"or$ing andstorage de!ices to

the VMM infrastructure% con7gured the VMM library%and created the re8uired library obects5 VMM hasdisco!ered all eisting !irtual machines on the!irtuali3ation hosts%and no" administrators "ant to manage them by

using the VMM console5 #hey also "ant to createne" !irtual machines by using !irtual machinetem&lates in the VMM library5

Se!eral ser!ers are still running on &hysical

hard"are5

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'ab e!ie"

-n "hich scenarios "ill it be bene7cial to

de&loy multi&le !irtual machines using the!irtual machine tem&late.

?rom "here can you clone a !irtual machine.

,hy is it im&ortant to $ee& !irtual machinesfrom the VMM library u&dated.

'ist some of the di4erences bet"een ,SUS

and Con7guration Manager5

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Module e!ie" and #a$ea"ays

Common -ssues and #roubleshooting #i&s

#ools

Documents

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