System Center 2012: App Controller - Installation

This blog post will provide the information and steps required to install System Center App Controller 2012 into your private cloud environment and configure the private cloud.

Please refer System Requirements for the hardware and software requirements needed to install SCAC 2012.

You can either use a physical or virtual machine that meets the above requirements. The machine that I am installing onto is a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server on Microsoft Hyper-V. You need to have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 already installed into your environment.

Now you need to install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Console onto the SCAC 2012 server.

System Center 2012: Orchestrator - Installation

This blog post will provide the information and steps required to install System Center Orchestrator 2012 into your private cloud environment and configure the private cloud.

Please refer System Requirements for the hardware and software requirements needed to install SCORCH 2012.

Deployment Overview:-

1.  In AD, create the following accounts and groups, according to your naming convention:

a.  DOMAIN\scorchsvc                      SCORCH Mgmt, Runbook, and Monitor Account

b.  DOMAIN\ScorchUsers                 SCORCH users security global group

2.  Add the domain user accounts for yourself and your team to the ScorchUsers group.

3.  Install Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to all server role members.

4.  Add the DOMAIN\scorchsvc account to the local administrators group on the SCORCH server.

5.  Add the DOMAIN\ScorchUsers global group to the local administrators group on the SCORCH server.

6.  Install the SCORCH Server.

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 12: Add WSUS Server in VMM

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 11: VMM SSL Certificate

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 10: Create Logical Network

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 9: Create Self Service User Role

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 8: Creating Cloud

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 7: Creating Delegated Administrator

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 6: Creating OS Profile

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 5: Creating Hardware Profile

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 4: Creating Templates

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 3: Create RunAs account and Add Library Server

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 2: Add HyperV Host

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 1: Installation