Tuesday, May 14, 2013

VMM 2012 Service Templates & Some Good Examples

As we all know, VMM 2012 (and later) is TOTALLY different compared to its predecessors. From a tool for managing a Virtual Infrastructure (VI) it has become the tool to manage your own private cloud(s).

In those very same private clouds Service Templates play a key role. Without them, your private cloud isn’t that exciting at all. Just a bunch of resources (compute, network & storage) people can ‘consume’ but that’s about it basically.

This is where Service Templates do come in. Instead of sharing resources, an entire organization is capable of deploying business applications as required WITHOUT going through the usual chorus which slows down the delivery of that same business application significantly. Instead with a few mouse clicks, the application is provided on a as-needed basis. And all the while it adheres to all company policies and requirements as well, simply because the Service Templates are build in such a manner that it’s fully compliant.

I know this is huge simplification of it all, but when all boiled down it is what it is and does.

So Service Templates have not only become key in VMM and the private cloud but also a challenge to get them right. So any good example is welcome in order to learn from it.

Therefore it’s good to know there are some very good blog postings out there all about building Service Templates:

  1. A series of blog posts around the deployment of a SharePoint Farm using VMM Service Templates;
    Application Management-Example-Deploying a Service to Your Private Cloud (Part 1)
    Application Management-Example-Deploying a Service to Your Private Cloud (Part 2)
    Application Management-Example-Deploying a Service to Your Private Cloud (Part 3)
    Application Management-Example-Deploying a Service to Your Private Cloud (Part 4)
  2. Application Management – Service Templates, real reusable examples

And check out this track since more posings are coming up: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/tags/application+management+track/

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