Database Reference
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clouds configured in VMM. If this is the case, you can skip this section and continue with
the next section,
Provisioning Virtual Machines to clouds
.
If you are not familiar with administering VMM or if you are configuring Chargeback re-
porting for a production environment, it is highly recommended that you work on the fol-
lowing steps with your virtualization administrator:
1. Open
VMM Console
and connect to your Virtual Machine Manager server using
an account that has administrative access to VMM.
2. In the
VMs and Services
area, in the
Home
ribbon, click on
Create Cloud
.
3. Give the cloud a name and click on
Next
.
4. Select
Host Group
that should host the VMs that you provision in this cloud, and
then click on
Next
.
5. Select the logical networks that should be accessible from your cloud and click on
Next
.
6. If required, configure options for
Load Balancers
,
VIP Templates
,
Port Classi-
fications
,
Storage
, and
Library
.
7. Under
Capacity
, define the capacity limits for your cloud or select
Use Maxim-
um
. Click on
Next
.
8. Select
Hyper-V
and click on
Next
.
9. Click on
Finish
to create your cloud.
You can create more clouds as required for your environment. The price sheets that we
will create later in this recipe are per cloud, so you can define different pricing models for
different clouds in your environment.
Provisioning virtual machines to clouds
Next, we need to have virtual machines assigned to our cloud(s) to calculate actual usage.
A virtual machine can be assigned to a cloud when it is provisioned or after provisioning.
To assign a virtual machine to a cloud during the provisioning process, in
Create Virtual
Machine Wizard
, under
Select Destination
, select the
Deploy the virtual machine to a
private cloud
option. In the next step,
Select Cloud
, select the desired cloud that will
host the VM, as shown in the following screenshot:
