Chapter 3. Installing VMM 2012 R2

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Creating service accounts
  • Deploying a Microsoft SQL Server for a VMM implementation
  • Installing VMM dependencies
  • Configuring Distributed Key management
  • Installing a VMM management server
  • Installing the VMM console
  • Connecting to a VMM management server using the VMM console
  • Creating credentials for a Run As account in VMM
  • Configuring ports and protocols on the host firewall for each VMM component

Introduction

Based on what we learned in the previous chapter, you now know that in order to start our System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) deployment, we need to create the install accounts and deploy the SQL database.

As discussed, VMM is required to be an Active Directory ...

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