New-SCCloud

Creates a private cloud.

Description

The New-SCCloud cmdlet creates a private cloud in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). A private cloud is a cloud that is provisioned and managed on-premise by an organization. The private cloud is deployed using an organization’s own hardware to leverage the advantages of the private cloud model. Through VMM, an organization can manage the private cloud definition, access to the private cloud, and the underlying physical resources.

You can create a private cloud from the following resources:

- Host groups that contain resources from Hyper-V hosts, Citrix
  XenServer hosts, and VMware ESX hosts

- A VMware resource pool

For more information about private clouds, see "Creating a Private Cloud Overview" in the TechNet library at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=212407.

For information about private cloud capacity, type: "Get-Help Set-SCCloudCapacity -detailed."

For more information about New-SCCloud, type: "Get-Help New-SCCloud -online".

Parameters

Name

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? 0
Specifies the name of a VMM object.

Description

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
States a description for the specified object.

JobGroup

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies an identifier for a series of commands that will run as a set just before the final command that includes the same job group identifier runs. 

JobVariable

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter. 

PROTipID

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.

RunAsynchronously

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately. 

VMHostGroup

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies a virtual machine host group object or an array of host group objects.

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named
Specifies a VMM server object.

Name

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? 0
Specifies the name of a VMM object.

Description

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
States a description for the specified object.

JobGroup

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies an identifier for a series of commands that will run as a set just before the final command that includes the same job group identifier runs. 

JobVariable

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter. 

PROTipID

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.

RunAsynchronously

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately. 

VMMServer

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? named
Specifies a VMM server object.

VMwareResourcePool

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Assigns a virtual machine deployed on a VMware ESX host or a private cloud to a specific VMware resource pool.

Examples

1: Create a private cloud from a host group.
PS C:\> $HostGroup = Get-SCVMHostGroup -Name "HostGroup01"
PS C:\> New-SCCloud -Name "Cloud01" -VMHostGroup $HostGroup

The first command gets the host group named HostGroup01 and stores it in the $HostGroup variable.

The second command creates a private cloud named Cloud01 from the host group stored in the $HostGroup variable.
2: Create a private cloud using a job group
PS C:\> $Guid = [System.Guid]::NewGuid()
PS C:\> Set-SCCloud -JobGroup $Guid
PS C:\> $HostGroup = Get-SCVMHostGroup -Name "HostGroup02"
PS C:\> New-SCCloud -JobGroup $Guid -Name "Cloud02" -VMHostGroup $HostGroup -Description "This is a cloud for HostGorup02"

The first command creates a new GUID and stores it in the $Guid variable.

The second command creates a job group using the GUID stored in $Guid.

The third command gets the host group object named HostGroup02 and stores the object in the $HostGroup variable.

The last command creates a private cloud named Cloud02, using the job group created in the second command and HostGroup02 for its resources.
3: Create a private cloud from multiple host groups.
PS C:\> $HostGroups = @()
PS C:\> $HostGroups += Get-SCVMHostGroup -Name "Seattle"
PS C:\> $HostGroups += Get-SCVMHostGroup -Name "New York"
PS C:\> New-SCCloud -VMHostGroup $HostGroups -Name "Cloud03" -Description "Cloud for the Seattle and New York host groups"
The first command creates an object array named $HostGroups. The second and third commands populate the object array with the host groups named Seattle and New York.

The last command creates a private cloud named Cloud03 using the host groups stored in the $HostGroups array as its resources.

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