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In a private cloud environment, you would use VMM to manage virtual machine deploy-
ment, but might use Configuration Manager to manage software updates and monitor con-
figuration drift for existing virtual machines.
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Remember that you use VMM to manage the software updates of your virtualization infra-
structure, which includes the virtualization hosts and VMM servers. You could do this with
Configuration Manager, but doing it with VMM has the benefit of ensuring that VMs are
properly dealt with before a virtualization host is updated. You would use Configuration
Manager to manage the software updates of the virtual machines that were deployed and
running within your organization's private cloud.
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CONFIGURATION MANAGER
You can learn more about Configuration Manager at
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/
The most straightforward method of making the server that hosts a System Center product
highly available is to deploy that product within a highly available virtual machine. Additional
protection is possible by configuring a replica virtual machine hosted on a second failover
cluster.
You can make the databases for each System Center product highly available by deploying
the databases on:
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A SQL Server instance hosted on a highly available virtual machine
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A SQL Server failover cluster
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SQL Server availability groups
Using availability groups with System Center product databases involves substantial con-
figuration of SQL Server prior to the deployment of the System Center product. You'll have to
specify the availability group listener name during product setup.
Beyond deploying the product on a highly available virtual machine, Table 1-1 lists ad-
ditional high availability strategies for each System Center product.
