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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition
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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

by Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
428 pages
9h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

Integrating and configuring the storage

VMM 2012 supports block-level storage devices and file storage solutions. Their descriptions are given in the following list:

  • Block-level storage devices: These expose logical unit numbers for storage, using fibre channel, iSCSI, and SAS connection mechanisms. You can integrate these arrays with VMM using a storage provider, meaning that you will be able to manage the arrays through the VMM console.

    Note

    From Windows 2012 onward, the Windows WMI-based Windows Storage Management API (SMAPI) replaces the Virtual Disk Service API (VDS). See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/san/archive/2012/06/26/an-introduction-to-storage-management-in-windows-server-2012.aspx for more information.

    The supported storage providers in VMM ...

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ISBN: 9781782176848