Overview
In this course by Cognixia, participants would gain the skills needed to transform their organization’s infrastructure with Hyper-V or System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Through extensive hands-on exercises participants would learn how to deploy and configure a highly available virtual infrastructure with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 virtualization tools.
What You'll Learn
Upon completion of this course, participants would be able to:
- Virtualizing enterprise workloads with Windows Server Hyper-V
- Understanding Hyper-V VMs, Optimized Disks and Virtual Networks
- Keeping up with live migrations, clustering and other high availability solutions
- Implementing a private cloud using SCVMM
- Optimizing virtual infrastructure performance and security
- Server and network administrators,
- Infrastructure architects,
- Anyone responsible for implementing or managing virtualization solutions based on Hyper-V
Curriculum
- Introduction to Microsoft Virtualization
- Introduction to System Center 2012 R2 components
- Evaluating current environment for virtualization
- Extending virtualization to the Cloud
- Lab work: Evaluate environment for virtualization
- Installing the Hyper-V server role
- Managing Hyper-V
- Configuring Hyper-V settings
- Hyper-V host storage and networking
- Lab Work: Hyper-V server role (Installing and configuring)
- Creating and configuring virtual hard disks
- Creating and configuring virtual machines
- Installing and importing virtual machines
- Managing virtual machine checkpoints
- Monitoring Hyper-V
- Designing and managing virtual machines
- Lab work: Virtual hard disks and virtual machines (Creating and Managing)
- Lab work: Checkpoints and monitoring Hyper-V (Creating and Managing)
- Creating and using Hyper-V virtual switches
- Advanced Hyper-V networking features
- Configuring and using Hyper-V network virtualization
- Lab work: Creating and configuring virtual machine networks
- Providing high availability and redundancy for virtualization
- Implementing virtual machine movement
- Implementing and managing Hyper-V replica
- Lab work: Virtual machine movement and Hyper-V replica
- Introduction to Failover Clustering
- Configuring and using shared storage
- Implementing and managing Failover Clustering with Hyper-V
- Lab work: Implement Failover Clustering with Hyper-V
- Integrating system center and server virtualization
- Introduction to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
- Installing System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
- Adding hosts and managing host groups
- Lab work: Install and configure System Center 2012 R2 VM Manager
- Managing networking infrastructure
- Managing storage infrastructure
- Managing infrastructure updates
- Lab work: Managing the networking and storage infrastructure in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
- Virtual Machine Management tasks in VMM
- Creating, cloning, and converting Virtual Machines
- Introduction to Virtual Machine updating
- Lab work: Creating and manage Virtual Machines by using System Center 2012 R2 VM Manager
- Introduction to Virtual Machine Manager Library
- Working With profiles and templates
- Lab work: Configuring and managing the System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager SP1 Library and Library Objects
- Introduction to Clouds
- Creating and Managing a Cloud
- Working With User Roles in Virtual Machine Manager
- Lab work: Working With User Roles in Virtual Machine Manager
- Understanding services in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
- Creating and managing services in VMM
- Using System Center 2012 R2 App Controller
- Lab work: Managing services in System Center 2012 R2 VMM and App Controller
- Introduction to backup and restoring options for Virtual Machines
- Protecting virtualization infrastructure with Data Protection Manager
- Using System Center Operations Manager
