Microsoft Hyper-V
OVERVIEW
Building Strategic Influence in Matrix Organizations
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
Why you shouldn't miss this course
By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.
01Virtualizing enterprise workloads with Windows Server Hyper-V
02Understanding Hyper-V VMs, Optimized Disks and Virtual Networks
03Keeping up with live migrations, clustering and other high availability solutions
04Implementing a private cloud using SCVMM
05Optimizing virtual infrastructure performance and security
06Server and network administrators,
07Infrastructure architects,
08Anyone responsible for implementing or managing virtualization solutions based on Hyper-V
PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience
CURRICULUM
Structured for
Strategic Application
Strategic Application
- 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
RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first,
hands-on learning model
hands-on learning model
Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)
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