Chapter 6. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Creating private clouds
  • Creating hardware, guest OSes, applications, and SQL profiles
  • Creating user roles in VMM
  • Creating and deploying virtual machines
  • Creating virtual machine templates
  • Creating and deploying service templates
  • Rapidly provisioning a virtual machine using SAN Copy

Introduction

In VMM, a private cloud consists of a collection of resources (for example, host groups of servers running common or diverse hypervisors, storage, and networking) and settings that provide virtualization infrastructure for cloud users (for example, tenants and self-service users), and it is deployed within your organizational boundaries using your own hardware and software. ...

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