 created the computer account objects for SysCtrDBS-AGL, VMMMS, and VMMLibraryServer in Active Directory and granted sufficient privileges to the associated Cluster computer accounts for these objects. Additionally, please ensure that these computer account objects are disabled in Active Directory. Installing Virtual Machine Manager How to do it The following diagram shows you the high-level steps involved in this recipe and the tasks required to complete this recipe: Overview of Recipe: Prerequisites (not covered by this recipe): Creation of 3 Windows Server Failover Clusters (only the cluster for VMM Library requires shared storage) Creation of the required computer objects in Active Directory for the clustered roles and the associated security settings Actions: Creation of SQL Server AlwaysOn High Availability Group and Listener for use by VMM Installation of VMM on a Windows Server Failover Cluster Creation of clustered file server role for the VMM Library Adding of the clustered file server to VMM to use as the VMM Library The preceding steps will result in the following VMM components being installed in the following configuration: The VirtualManagerDB database will be installed on a new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group VMM 2012 R2 Management Server will be installed on two servers with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager service being a clustered role A clustered file server with the VMM Library share deployed To learn how to install the following components, please visit the following links for Microsoft TechNet: Installation of SQL Server ready for AlwaysOn: :http://technet.microsoft.com/ en-us/library/bb500395 (v=sql.110) aspx Configuration of the Windows Firewall to permit the required network traffic: osoft.com/en-gb/library/cc753558.aspr Creating Computer Accounts in Active Directory:http://technet.microsoft. com/en-us/library/cc781364(v=ws.10) . aspx Chapter 1 SQL Server The first step is to create the SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group (this is a feature of SQL Server Ente