 therefore save you time. There's more For completely automated deployments of HNV gateways, check out System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator (http://technet .microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh237242.aspx) or Service Management Automation ((http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ dn469260 aspx). IP Address Management Integration with VMM for Hyper-V Network Virtualization In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes: Installing IPAM in Windows Server 2012 R2 Integrating IPAM into VMM Using IPAM data for reporting Introduction IP Address Management (IPAM) was introduced as a feature of Windows Server in Windows Server 2012. Microsoft defines IPAM as follows(http://technet.microsoft.com/en- gb/library/hh831353.aspx): "...an integrated suite of tools to enable end-to-end planning, deploying, managing and monitoring of your IP address infrastructure, with a rich user experience. IPAM automatically discovers IP address infrastructure servers on your network and enables you to manage them from a central interface." IP Address Management Integration with VMM for Hyper-V Network Virtualization In Windows Server 2012, IPAM could only integrate with the following: Microsoft Windows DHCP Servers Microsoft Windows DNS Servers Microsoft Windows Network Policy Servers Active Directory Domain Controllers The minimum version of Windows Server that IPAM will communicate with is Windows Server 2008. With the introduction of Windows Server 2012 R2, IPAM is able to communicate with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager so that IT administrators can get a complete view of their IP address estate. The integration with VMM covers any and all IP addresses that VMM can issue-for traditional VLAN-based IP networks as well as for Hyper-V Network Virtualization based networks. By integrating with IPAM you will be able to get a complete solution for managing and monitoring IP addresses in your IT infrastructure. Installing IPAM in Windows Server 2012 R2 This will be a single server installation of IPAM to allow you to understand 