You need to recommend a solution to control the provisioning of the virtual machines by the research department users.
The solution must meet the requirements for managing services in the private cloud.
What should you include in the recommendation?
(More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.)
Case Study Title (Case Study):
Case Study 4 – Litware Inc
Overview
Litware, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company.
Litware has an office in Montreal. Litware has a marketing department and a research department.
Existing Environment
Network Infrastructure
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named litwareinc.com. The domain contains 1,000 physical servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2. All of
the servers are located in a leased data center that has a high-bandwidth, low-latency network. The data center contains third-party iSCSI SAN storage devices that
support an SMI-S provider.
Application Infrastructure
Users in the research department use multiple instances of a three-tier application named Appl. App1 consists of the components shown in the following table.
The Web Server (IIS) server role, WMI providers, Windows services, Windows drivers, and web applications will be installed on the servers that host Tier 2.
Problem Statements
Litware identifies the following issues:- The cost of leasing data center space is increasing steadily.
– The research department users report that it takes too long to provision new instances of Appl.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Litware plans to deploy 400 additional servers that will run Windows Server 2008 R2. The servers will be configured as shown in the following table.
Litware also plans to deploy the following System Center 2012 components:
– Orchestrator
– App Controller
– Service Manager
– Operations Manager
– Data Protection Manager (DPM)
– Virtualization Machine Manager (VMM)
Litware plans to provide the research department users with the ability to deploy instances of Appl.
Private Cloud Infrastructure Requirements
Litware identifies the following requirements for the planned private cloud infrastructure:
– VMM must be available if a server or a service fails.
– Virtual machines must be provisioning by using SAN copy cloning.
– The implementation of App Controller must support single sign-on.
– The implementation of Service Manager must support French and English.
– The implementation of VMM must support the provisioning of virtual machines by using SAN copy.
– Virtual machines hosted on Hyper-V failover clusters must remain available during the installation of Windows updates.
– Physical servers that have workloads that are suitable for a virtualized environment must be virtualized. Performance
data must be taken into account when identifying which servers must be virtualized.
Private Cloud Integration RequirementsLitware identifies the following requirements for integrating the System Center 2012 components:
– Incidents in Service Manager must be resolved automatically, whenever possible.
– Alerts generated by Operations Manager must trigger incidents in Service Manager.
– Operations Manager alerts triggered by VMM events must be remediated automatically, whenever possible.
– All of the Orchestrator components responsible for executing the activities of Service Manager workflows must be
highly available.
Private Cloud Services Requirements
Litware identifies the following requirements for managing services in the private cloud:
– App1 must be deployed by using a VMM service template.
– The Tier 2 of App1 must be deployed as a highly available virtual machine.
– The research department users must use App Controller to deploy virtual machines and services.
– The virtual machines deployed by the research department users must be hosted on servers in the research department.
– The virtual machines in Tier 1 of App1 must be configured as cluster nodes by using the Network Load Balancing (NLB)
feature.
– A web application named WA1 in Tier 2 of App1 must use a connection string that points to a Microsoft SQL Server
database in Tier 3 of App1.
– The software components included in Tier 2 of App1 must be deployed as Microsoft Server Application Visualization
(Server App-V) packages, whenever possible.
A.
VMM placement rules and capability profiles
B.
VMM placement rules and Service Manager service offerings
C.
A separate VMM cloud for the research department users
D.
VMM custom properties and Orchestrator runbooks
Explanation:
The Research department contains clustered Hyper-V hosts and standalone Hyper-V hosts. When research users deploy an instance of App1, the VMs in App1
must be highly available. Therefore, they must be deployed to the clustered Hyper-V hosts. A capability profile can specify that a VM must be highly available and a
placement rule can ensure it is deployed to clustered Hyper-V hosts. A private cloud including the standalone Hyper-V hosts would not ensure this.
My guess is also C because custom placement rules were introduced in SP1
(http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2013/03/11/custom-placement-rules-and-availability-sets-in-scvmm-2012-sp1.aspx) and in Case Study we areimplementing 2012 RTM