Virtual Machines

What is Virtual Machine? Discuss VMM in detail. 


A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system OS or application environment that is installed on software which imitates dedicated hardware. The end user has the same experience on a virtual machine as they would have on dedicated hardware.

  Figure 1: VMM high level architecture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VMM high level architecture 

A VMM implementation is made of various core components that are required for every VMM installation.

The following components are central to each VMM installation:

• VMM server
• VMM database
• VMM Windows PowerShell cmdlet interface
• VMM administrator console
• VMM library
• Managed virtualization hosts
• VMM Self-Service Portal 
• Managed virtualization managers [ Optional ]
• OpsMgr management packs for monitoring, reporting and PRO [Optional] 

Managed virtualization managers and OpsMgr are optional components.

VMM Server and VMM Database 

The VMM server contains the core Windows service that includes VMM engine. The VMM database can reside either locally on VMM server or on a remote database server.

VMM Administrator Console 

It is main user interface for managing a virtualized infrastructure using VMM.
Administartor Console has five main views and one optional view :

1. Host view 
2. virtualized machines view 
3. Jobs view
4. Library view
5. Administration view
6. Reporting view [optional]