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Preparing to Create Services in VMM
Updated: January 15, 2013
Applies To: System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager
Before you begin creating service templates to be used to deploy services in VMM, you should review and document all the elements that make up the service that you want to deploy. For example:
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What computers (physical and virtual) need to be deployed to support the service?
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What applications need to be deployed?
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What networking components are used?
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Who will use the service?
You also need to ensure that the VMM resources needed to deploy the service have been created, configured, and are available. For example:
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VMM library resources (such as virtual hard disks) |
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Networking components (such as logical networks and load balancers) |
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Virtual machine hosts and host groups |
Creating Host Groups in VMM Overview |
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Private clouds |
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Hardware profiles, guest operating system profiles, application profiles, and SQL Server profiles |
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Virtual machine templates |
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Monitoring and reporting |
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If you plan to install applications, ensure that you have all the necessary installation files, scripts, and configuration information available for the applications.
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If you are using Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V), ensure that you have sequenced the applications.
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If you plan to deploy an instance of SQL Server on to a virtual machine, ensure that you have a virtual hard drive that contains a sysprepped version (prepared instance) of SQL Server. For System Center 2012, the version must be SQL Server 2008 R2. For System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the version can be either SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012.
See Also
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For additional resources, see Information and Support for System Center 2012.
Tip: Use this query to find online documentation in the TechNet Library for System Center 2012. For instructions and examples, see Search the System Center 2012 Documentation Library.
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