Introduction

Private cloud computing is a very hot topic, but there remains a lot of mystery around the subject. What is a private cloud? What are the technical and business reasons to deploy one? How do I design one that focuses on service delivery? Does Microsoft have such an offering?

This book exactly answers those questions, and provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a Microsoft private cloud that can serve as an IT-service-delivery virtualization infrastructure based on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. You'll be walked through the entire process: understanding cloud computing, understanding the Microsoft concept of a private cloud, architecting and deploying a private cloud fabric, deploying services, building and managing a private cloud, as well as integrating it with Microsoft's public cloud to create a cross-premises or hybrid cloud.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is intended for people who want to learn how to deploy an infrastructure that focuses on the delivery of IT services, based on a private cloud solution built on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. Such people probably fall into three basic groups:

  • Consultants will want to understand how to sell and deploy solutions based on this technology. This book will educate them about how to deploy services to their clients.
  • Engineers and IT architects who design the Microsoft private cloud and build corporate infrastructure solutions will learn how to build an optimized platform for the delivery of solutions in a centralized and well-managed environment.
  • IT Administrators who manage IT infrastructures. These are the people who are responsible for the day-to-day delivery of IT services to their businesses. Understanding how to deploy and/or manage a private cloud will improve how they can perform their duties, and enable them to focus their time on more-interesting work.

Together, we are four MVPs who have different experiences and expertise, with one common goal: we want to share what we have learned over the months about Microsoft's new virtualized infrastructure management, service deployments, and private-cloud solution.

We recognize System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 as a considerable leap forward in how you can manage your virtualisation fabric, and in the ability to deploy and maintain complex IT solutions across a variety of virtualization platforms. Not only that, together with the other System Center 2012 products, Virtual Machine Manager 2012 offers a comprehensive private cloud solution.

Once you have read this book, you should be ready when your boss or your customers ask if you know anything about the private cloud. Not only will you be able to answer in the affirmative, but you'll be in a position to successfully advise, design, and deploy the solution.

What You Will Learn

You will learn how to do the following:

  • Describe the different types of cloud computing, including the private cloud
  • Understand the Microsoft private cloud
  • Deploy System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and the fabric which serves as the foundation for your private cloud
  • Build the components of IT service delivery
  • Set up private clouds and integrate them with Microsoft's public cloud to create a cross-premises cloud using System Center 2012 App Controller
  • Implement the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack

What You Need

You should have an understanding of Windows Server 2008 R2 (see Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Sybex 2010) and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (see Mastering Hyper-V Deployment, Sybex 2010).

To re-create the demonstrations contained within this book you will need the following:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
  • Microsoft System Center App Controller 2012
  • VMware vSphere 4.1
  • Citrix XenServer 6.0
  • A number of servers with baseboard management controllers
  • A network load balancer (virtual or physical) with support for integrating with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
  • A storage-area network (virtual or physical) with support for the Storage Management Initiative – Specification (SMI-S)

What Is Covered in This Book

Microsoft Private Cloud Computing was written to teach you how to deploy Microsoft's solution even if you are new to cloud computing. Each chapter will progress you from theory to advanced private cloud computing; this book will start with explaining the basics, step you through creating and utilizing the fabric of a private cloud, generating and maintaining services, and creating private and cross-premises clouds based on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012:

Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Computing There is a lot of misunderstanding about what cloud computing really is. This chapter will explain why cloud computing came to be, teach you about what makes a cloud, and cover the different kinds of cloud, including the private cloud.
Chapter 2: The Microsoft Private Cloud Here you will learn about the reasoning behind Microsoft's design and what makes this complete solution different from the alternatives.
Chapter 3: Introducing the VMM 2012 Architecture This is where you're introduced to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. You will learn about the components of VMM 2012.
Chapter 4: Setting Up and Deploying VMM 2012 Explains the requirements for all the different components of VMM 2012. This chapter also shows you to to install the VMM 2012 components. It also deals with the upgrade from VMM 2008 R2, and the security model.
Chapter 5: Understanding the VMM Library The library is a repository of reusable resources that can be used to deploy virtual machines, applications, and services. In this chapter, you will learn how to manage the VMM library.
Chapter 6: Understanding Network and Storage in VMM 2012 Here you'll learn how to build storage fabrics based on SMI-S, network fabrics based on logical networks and address pools, VLANs, and network load balancer virtual IP (VIP) templates.
Chapter 7: Deploying Hosts and Clusters in VMM 2012 VMM 2012 has the ability to deploy Hyper-V hosts on bare-metal hardware, and build new Hyper-V clusters from them. Here you will learn how to deploy this virtualization infrastructure, as well as how to enable advanced virtualization features such as dynamic optimization and power optimization.
Chapter 8: Understanding Service Modeling A service is where a number of individual IT components are working together to provide valuable functionality to the business. This chapter covers service modeling, how to build Server App-V packages for virtualizing server applications, and how to build service templates using the contents of the VMM Library and the storage and network fabrics, deploy the templates as running services, and maintain those services.
Chapter 9: Creating a Private Cloud Leveraging the knowledge gained in the preceding sections of the book, we can now combine all the resources we have created for our consumption. In this chapter we introduce the administrative tasks of creating a VMM private cloud; we define user roles and demonstrate the delegatation of access to these clouds.
Chapter 10: Working in the Cloud With our cloud created and access provisioned, we assume an end-user persona, and experience the three in box interfaces offered for working on our new clouds, as we demonstrate by deploying virtual machines.
Chapter 11: App Controller and the Public Cloud Building on the previous chapter, we introduce the Microsoft public cloud, and how App Controler provides a single interface to span both the public and private clouds.
Chapter 12: Cloud Services Process Pack In the final chapter of the book we introduce the extensible nature of VMM and System Center by implementing the Cloud Services Process Pack, which builds a top of Service Manager, Orchestrator, and Operations Manager.

How to Contact the Authors

We welcome feedback from you about this book or about books you'd like to see from us in the future. You can reach Aidan Finn by writing to [email protected], learn more about his work by visiting www.aidanfinn.com, or follow him on Twitter at @joe_elway.

If you want to contact Hans Vredevoort, send an email to [email protected] or you can follow him on Twitter at @hvredevoort. Hans frequently blogs at www.hyper-v.nu

You can reach Patrick Lownds by writing to [email protected] or learn more about his work by following him on Twitter at @patricklownds.

Damian Flynn can be reached on email at [email protected], you can follow him on Twitter at @damian_flynn, and read his technology blog at www.damianflynn.com.

Sybex strives to keep you supplied with the latest tools and information you need for your work. Please check their website at www.sybex.com/go/microsoftprivatecloud, where we'll post additional content and updates that supplement this book if the need arises.

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