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| Cloud Perspectives by Michael Otey
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Automation is the Key to Cloud Efficiency We've all heard the cloud is more than virtualization and that the cloud builds on virtualization. But how exactly is the cloud more than just virtualization? One of the key differences is automation. The management of virtualization is focused on single VMs. With the cloud, the management moves up to the application layer.
Products like Virtual Machine Manager 2012 enable you to create cloud services that combine all of the VMs that comprise an application into a single service. This moves your management level one step higher up the stack. Instead of managing each individual VM you now can manage related groups of VMs making your management tasks much more efficient. This type of automation improves management productivity but as you move to the cloud it's also required because the economy of scale increases as well.
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by Rod Trent
With the latest R2 add-on release, Microsoft is seeking to add full support for monitoring both the physical and the virtual layers for a hybrid cloud implementation. The System Center Management Pack for VMM Fabric Dashboard 2012 R2 has just been released and after installation will allow you to retrieve a detailed overview of the health of your private cloud, and then, through monitoring and alerting, help you prioritize where your resources need to be focused to ensure an efficient service.
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