Chapter 1, VMM 2016 Architecture, provides an understanding of the VMM modular architecture, which is useful when designing VMM and troubleshooting deployment. This chapter also covers all the requirements that must be satisfied to make a private cloud.
Chapter 2, Upgrading from Previous Versions, walks you through all the necessary steps to upgrade the previous version of VMM to the new VMM 2016, covering its database, highly available configurations, and post-upgrade tasks.
Chapter 3, Installing VMM 2016, focuses on deploying VMM and its dependencies. It also gives plenty of tips and tricks to install and automate VMM and SQL Server deployments in both Windows Server Core and Full environments.
Chapter 4, Installing a High Available VMM Server, dives into more advanced VMM configuration, and provides an understanding of how VMM has become a critical part of the private cloud infrastructure. You will also learn how to make a highly available library server and VMM configuration database.
Chapter 5, Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM, discusses building a new fabric in VMM by configuring compute, storage, and networking resources. It starts by adding host groups and ends by creating a hyper-converged cluster with Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-V. It also covers the deployment of a network controller providing a good starting point for network virtualization implementation.
Chapter 6, Configuring Guarded Fabric in VMM, walks you through the recipes to help protect confidential data by deploying new shielded VMs as a part of a Guarded Fabric consisting of Guarded Hosts and a Host Guardian Service. It also discusses how to convert existing VMs to shielded and manage them through VMM.
Chapter 7, Deploying Virtual Machines and Services, provides information to help the administrator to create, deploy, and manage private clouds, virtual machines, templates, and services in VMM 2016; it provides recipes to assist you in getting the most of our deployment.
Chapter 8, Managing VMware ESXi Hosts, shows you how to manage and make VMware resources available to private cloud deployments. It also covers converting VMware machines to Hyper-V (V2V), deploying virtual machines and templates, all from the VMM console.
Chapter 9, Managing Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Cluster and the New Features of 2016, covers other new features of VMM 2016 such as Cluster OS Rolling upgrade and Production Checkpoints. You will also learn how to integrate VMM 2016 with Windows Azure Pack for VM cloud management.
Chapter 10, Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2016, guides you through the steps required to complete integration of SCOM 2016 with VMM in order to enable monitoring of the private cloud infrastructure.
