{"id":12368,"date":"2012-04-17T19:35:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2012-04-17T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:35:34","slug":"infrastructure-management-confgure-and-deploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12368","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure Management: Configure and Deploy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: Kenon Owens, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft and Fahad Ahmed, Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>This is a VMM 2012 session on building the private cloud fabrics.&#160; Or you could read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Microsoft-Private-Cloud-Computing-Aidan\/dp\/1118251474%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1118251474\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Private Cloud Computing<\/a> to learn all this.<\/p>\n<p>You create pools of physical resources, aka, clouds, give users access to them, define resources that they can use, and give them a quota.&#160; The physical resources in question are compute, storage, and network.<\/p>\n<p>You can attach Configuration Manager to do additional management such as patching, DCM, auditing, compliance, security, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Host deployment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>WinPE downloads and prepares a partition <\/li>\n<li>Downloads a VHD from VMM for boot to VHD <\/li>\n<li>Does Plug and Play for the system <\/li>\n<li>Boot the machine into OOBE <\/li>\n<li>Join domain and enable Hyper-V <\/li>\n<li>Reboot \u2013 and it\u2019s now in a VMM host group <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Storage Management<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Uses SMI-S.&#160; Storage vendors still slow to implement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>End to end mapping = create associations between storage and VM. ID storage consumed by VM, host and cluster <\/li>\n<li>Capacity management: add storage to a host or cluster through masking operations.&#160; Add capacity dring a new cluster creation <\/li>\n<li>Rapid provisioning: create new VMs leveraging SAN LUN cloning. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can tier storage via classification pools using labels of your choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Demo<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Fabric: storage is a fabric.&#160; They\u2019ve deployed 3 NetApp arrays via SMI-S providers.&#160; They have created 3 tiers of storage pools based on quality of disk, picked from the various arrays.&#160; In the VMM console, they create LUNs that will be used as a cluster witness disk and a CSV in a later cluster build.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Logical Abstraction for the network fabric<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logical networks: Classify networks for VMs to access, map to network topology, allocate to hosts and clouds. <\/li>\n<li>Address pools: allocate static IP to VMs from a preconfigured pool, create and IP pool as a manage range of IPs, create a MAC address pool <\/li>\n<li>Load Balancers: apply settings for LB capability in service deployment, control LB through vendor provider <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can allocate logical networks to physical NICs, e.g. create Prod and DMZ networks, and allocate those logical networks to hosts in different clouds as appropriate.&#160; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IP pools: assigned to VMs, hosts, and virtual IPs (LBs), specified use in VM template creation, checked out at VM creation, returned on VM deletion <\/li>\n<li>MAC pools: same as with IP pools, but for MAC assignment <\/li>\n<li>Virtual IP pools: assigned to service tiers in a service template that use a LB.&#160; Assigned to clouds.&#160; Checked in\/out on creation\/deletion.&#160; Reserved within IP pools <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supported LB: MSFT NLB, Citrix NetScaler, F5 Big IP, Brocade ServerIron ADX.&#160; Each requires a provider.&#160; Specify type of LB, e.g. round robin, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Demo of Cluster Creation<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2 Nodes, A and B.&#160; They are discovered in VMM, using a RunAs account.&#160; Creates a new cluster in Fabric.&#160; Adds the two hosts from the host group \u2013 must be in a single host group like in 2008\/R2.&#160; Can optionally do the cluster validation tests (recommended).&#160; Assign a cluster IP.&#160; Now allocate the previous storage to the cluster.&#160; Checkbox to enable CSV in the disk selection.&#160; And that creates the cluster \u2013 some simplification of the networking story here.<\/p>\n<p>Can manage Hyper-V, vSphere 4.1 (via vCenter only) and XenServer 6.0.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Demo of Cloud Creation<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Create a cloud in VMs And Services.&#160; Select a host group or VMware resource pools.&#160; Select logical networks.&#160; Select LB VIP profiles.&#160; Any additional storage to allocate?&#160; You can set quota on CPU, RAM, storage, custom quota points, and VM number.&#160; You can control which type of hypervisor can be used.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Creates a new role in Settings\/Security. Select from admin, read only, or self-service for a cloud.&#160; Select the clouds to assign to the role.&#160; You can override the previous quotas, e.g. for the role or for the entire role, as a subset of the cloud\u2019s quotas.&#160; Add resources to the role, e.g. templates they can see.&#160; Then you specify actions they can do.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>In App Controller, we see the delegated rights this role has, e.g. what they can deploy, how much, and what actions they can do.&#160; The Self-Service Portal is there only for backwards compatibility, it\u2019s been deprecated.<\/p>\n<p>Typically people make a few clouds, e.g. Prod and Test, and then use roles to divide up the shared pool of resources.<\/p>\n<p>They aim to support vSphere 5.0 with System Center 2012 VMM SP1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: Kenon Owens, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft and Fahad Ahmed, Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft. 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