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

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

Creating and deploying virtual machines

In this recipe, we will create a virtual machine that will later be used as a template.

Getting ready

Creating a VM is straightforward. You can create a new virtual machine using an existing virtual hard disk, or you can create a machine with a blank virtual hard disk and then install the OS.

If you are creating a new VM from a blank VHD/VHDX disk, be prepared to link an ISO hosted in the VMM library or a CD/DVD drive with the OS media that is to be installed.

Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V has recently introduced Virtual Machine (VM) generation 2, which provides new benefits such as the following:

  • The PXE boot that uses the synthetic network, which means that you won't need to install the legacy network adapter anymore ...
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ISBN: 9781782176848