This module explains the key business and technical requirements behind choosing a cloud model and the elements it contains. The module also shows how to use Microsoft System Center R2 to monitor and operate clouds, ensuring that it is configured correctly and running in a healthy state.
Finally, you will use System Center to verify cloud infrastructure for the cloud environment. The module first provides an overview of Virtual Machine Manager, and will then show how it is used to manage a virtual environment.
Additionally, this module explains how to create private clouds by using Virtual Machine Manager. In the lab, you will create a private cloud and then optimize it so that is ready for production use.
This module reviews the key elements that form a service in VMM and how the service is deployed to the private cloud. When you provide services in a cloud, performance and availability of the service must be monitored and maintained. Monitoring of the service should be proactive and should provide detailed information, including alert notifications and reports to let you know when potential issues are about to occur in the environment that the service is running in.
When issues do occur, you should have the ability to automatically take action and remediate where appropriate, which helps keep the service available and provides the performance and usability that end users expect. This module shows how Operations Manager is used to monitor the services deployed in a cloud.
