VMM Fabric Resources

On a high level, there are three resource pools that make up the fabric, as follows:

• Servers

• Networking

• Storage

Within these three major resource areas, a number of individual elements can be discovered, defined, and configured, collectively making up the fabric that powers a private cloud. Figure 13.1 shows these resource areas displayed within the VMM Administrator Console. The following sections provide an overview of these three resource pools and the types of individual resource elements that can be defined within each.

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Figure 13.1 Fabric resources.

Servers

In addition to Hyper-V hosts, VMM 2012 allows two other ...

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