SCVMM Self-Service Portal with Laptop Part 4 of 4: Running Self-Service Portal, Rapid-Prototyping of

Posted By: yung | Mar 28th @ 12:16 PM | 16,055 Views | 2 Comments

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This screencast walked through the steps to install Self-Service Portal followed by presenting the user experience in creating a VM using an assigned template and operating the created VM via Self-Service Portal UI.

The demo environment included MYHOST (my laptop running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V Server Role) and 2 running virtual machines were APEX (the domain controller of contoso.corp) and SC (a member server with SCVMM installed) while MYHOST also joined the domain.

The following screencasts present the user experience and walk through the operations carried out from steps 5 to 11:

Tags: SCVMM, Self-Service Portal, System Center, system center virtual machine manager, Virtualization

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Koeikan

Great, thanks for the video.

Is it possible to display ** all ** VMs viewable from within SCVMM through the portal? IE: not just the ones created from the portal...

Thanks!

yung

In reply to Koeikan

#Mar 31st @ 3:49 PM

I don't believe so. That will break the security model and possibly violate defined usage policies, i.e. what are defined in a User Role. Review Part 3 for more information on User Role. Self-Service Portal is associated with a Library Server which is a host, i.e. a Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V enabled. What Self-Service Portal provides is a VM deployment and lifecycle management vehicle relevant to "only" the associated Library Server for authorized users. Resources not defined in SCVMM for or created using Self-Service Portal should not be visible within Self-Service Portal.