Chapter 9Implementing the Private Cloud and SCVMM

So far this book has covered aspects of Hyper-V, such as types of resources, high availability, and management. This chapter takes the capabilities enabled through Hyper-V and shows how to build on them by using the System Center management stack and by leveraging the virtual infrastructure.

In this chapter, you will learn to

  • Explain the difference between virtualization and the private cloud
  • Describe the must-have components to create a Microsoft private cloud

The Benefits of the Private Cloud

What is the private cloud? Understanding this is actually the hardest part of implementing the private cloud. One of my customers once said the following, and it's 100 percent accurate:

If you ask ...

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