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FIGURE 4-27
VMM connector
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On the Summary page, review the configuration information, and click Create.
IPAM is a Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 role service that allows you
to centralize the management of DHCP and DNS servers. You can use a single IPAM server
to manage up to 150 separate DHCP servers, and up to 500 individual DNS servers. A single
IPAM server is able to manage 6,000 separate DHCP scopes and 150 separate DNS zones.
You can perform tasks such as creating address scopes, configuring address reservations, and
managing DHCP and DNS options globally, rather than having to perform these tasks on a
server-by-server basis.
You can integrate the IPAM role with VMM. When you do this, VMM synchronizes IP ad-
dress settings associated with logical networks and virtual machine networks with the IPAM
database. After you integrate IPAM with VMM, VMM administrators use IPAM to configure
and monitor logical networks and their associated network sites and IP address pools. Ten-
ants, however, must continue to use VMM to manage and configure any virtual machine
networks that use network virtualization. Put another way, you cannot use IPAM to manage
the tenant address space.
