Setting up virtual machines for cloud management fabric

Enough of planning and best practices, it is time to get things in action. Let us setup virtual machines to host our cloud infrastructure. These VMs shall host cloud management infrastructure and be hosted on the cloud management cluster.

Create a user in Active Directory for joining these servers into the Active Directory domain.

Note

Add one redundant VM for each type of VM below, except WAP server (see Chapter 1, Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture, for WAP HA), to provide highly available fabric. See product specific guidelines for configuring HA for respective components.

Note

These VM configuration used in this book is only for evaluation purpose, follow guidelines discussed in Chapter 1, Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture and this chapter along with product specific documentation for production deployment.

All VMs mentioned above shall be configured with the following common settings:

• 127 GB disk (dynamic expanding disk)
• Windows Server 2012 R2 DC/STD edition operating system
• Single NIC card connected to Hyper-V virtual switch (external)
• Dynamic memory not being used
• All integration services available
• Highly available in a Hyper-V cluster (recommended, not mandatory)

The post VM deployment steps are as follows:

• Active Windows operating system
• Assign static IPv4 address
• Assign hostname as per naming convention
• Join the server to domain
• Turn off Windows firewall or create firewall rules as applicable