Chapter 3
Introducing the VMM 2012 Architecture
Virtual Machine Manager 2012 has become the main tool for building the Microsoft private cloud and is now an important member of the System Center 2012 family of management products. This chapter describes the following:
- How VMM evolved from a patched-together collection of managers to today's sophisticated tool
- The capabilities of VMM that make it a complete solution for managing private clouds
- The architecture and main components of a VMM private cloud
Exploring the New Capabilities of VMM 2012
The traditional data center has a large variety of servers, clusters, hypervisors, network devices, storage devices, and other equipment. Most physical servers host dozens of virtual machines. Those virtual ...
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