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CBT Nuggets Microsoft 70-403 SCVMM and 70-652 Hyper V
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Posted by............: Stoneboy
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Posted on............: 4-1-2010
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Once you've completed Gregg Shield's training, you'll have all the skills
and experience you need to completely design, spec, architect and build a
fully-functional, enterprise-worthy Hyper-V environment. Plus, along the
way, you'll gain the knowledge you need to be successful with not one, but
two Microsoft MCTS virtualization exams (70-652 and 70-403).
Greg addresses all of the necessary topics an IT administrator or engineer
will need to be successful with a Hyper-V architecture and implementation
project -- including backups, high availability, disaster recovery and
performance management.
This series explains in detail:
Adding high-availability atop Windows Failover Clustering
Adding PRO Tips monitoring via System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr)
Creating the necessary automation for rapid deployment of virtual machines
through SCVMM
By the time you're done you'll thoroughly understand the following topics
about Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager:
* Introduction to Hyper-V, VMM, and Microsoft Virtualization
* Planning your Virtualization Infrastructure
* Configuring Windows Server 2008 for Hyper-V
* Creating & Working with Virtual Machines
* Monitoring Virtual Machine Processing
* Managing Snapshots & Backups
* Understanding & Installing Failover Clustering
* Managing High Availability & Quick Migration
* Configuring User Permissions in Hyper-V
* Introducing & Installing VMM
* Managing Hyper-V Hosts with VMM
* Understanding & Working with the VMM Library
* VM Rapid Deployment in VMM
* Managing High Availability in VMM
* Converting Machines, P2V & V2V
* Configuring User Roles & Self-Service
* Installing and Using PRO Tips
* Integrating VMM with vCenter
* Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell
* What to Expect with Hyper-V in R2
Here's what you'll learn in each video of the Microsoft Hyper-V and System
Center Virtual Machine Manager series:
Video 1 - "Introduction to Hyper-V, VMM, and Microsoft Virtualization" -
Welcome to Hyper-V! Microsoft’s virtualization solution is enterprise-ready and
primed for introduction into your datacenter. But you need to know about it, and
this video series will get you there, starting with a short introduction into
the CBTN learning style, the environment we'll be building over the next 20
videos, and the test elements you need to prepare for. Whether you're preparing
for Microsoft’s MCTS exams, or you just need some on-the-job training, your
starting point is here for Hyper-V excellence.
Video 2 - "Planning your Virtualization Infrastructure" - Did you know that
44% of virtualization deployments aren't considered a success by their business?
Were you aware that 55% of companies report that they experience more problems
with virtualization than benefits? The results of a few recent studies show that
you can't just Next, Next, Finish your way to virtualization success. You must
plan for it, prepare for it, and determine which physical machines make sense
for your virtual environment. This video discusses just those steps in your
virtualization implementation, helping you plan for success in your virtual
infrastructure.
Video 3 - "Configuring WS2008 for Hyper-V" - Once your planning is complete,
the next step is in getting your Windows Server 2008 machines ready for Hyper-V.
This nugget discusses the prerequisites for Hyper-V as well as some tips and
tricks for quickly determining whether your existing infrastructure will support
its needs. It concludes with an installation of the Hyper-V role to a Windows
Server 2008 computer, showing you how easy it is to enable a server for Hyper-V.
Video 4 - "Creating & Working with VMs" - There are a lot of common tasks
that need to be done with any computer, no matter if its physical or virtual:
powering on, powering off, resetting, creating, removing, etc. Virtualization
makes many of these processes easier, while adding new ones like taking
snapshots with rollback, changing virtual hardware, among others. This nugget
will roll you through what you need to know to operate your virtual machines
with Hyper-V.
Video 5 - "Monitoring Virtual Machine Processing" - One of the most
important– if not the most important task – in managing your virtual
infrastructure is keeping tabs on your virtual machines’ performance. Doing that
with Hyper-V alone requires looking at some new PerfMon counters that weren't
there before. It also requires looking at counters in different ways than you're
used to. Learn about those new methods as well as the new counters in this
video. You'll discover which counters are useful and which you can safely
ignore.
Video 6 - "Managing Snapshots & Backups" - Virtualization improves the
utility of backups while at the same time it makes backups more complicated.
Were you aware that adding virtualization to an environment can quadruple the
perspectives where backups can come from? Learn each of those four perspectives
as well as when each makes sense in this nugget. You'll learn how to configure
Hyper-V for backups, as well as when to backup from within virtual machines as
opposed to from the perspective of their host.
Video 7 - "Understanding & Installing Failover Clustering" - Consolidating
many virtual machines to a few hosts does great things for reducing your data
center’s footprint, but it also increases the effect of a single host’s loss.
Environments that can't tolerate downtime (and who can these days) need high-
availability if they're to survive the loss of a virtual host. In this nugget
you'll learn the basics of high availability with Windows Failover Clustering.
You'll learn what you need to be successful with a cluster, as well as what it
can protect. By its end you'll know everything you need to deploy a cluster to
keep your virtual machines safe.
Video 8 - "Managing High Availability & Quick Migration" - And yet deploying
that cluster is only the first step. Microsoft’s solution for high-availability
uses general-purpose clustering technology that often requires a few extra steps
to properly manage. Keep on top of your cluster management with the information
you'll gain in this nugget. You'll learn the tips and tricks necessary to be
successful with clustering, as well as Hyper-V’s Quick Migration.
Video 9 - "Configuring User Permissions in Hyper-V" - If you're not the only
administrator in your environment, the odds are good you'll want some additional
lock downs for your Hyper-V infrastructure. Here's the hard part: when using
Hyper-V alone, creating those user permissions isn't a trivial task. Learn how
to customize Microsoft’s AzMan, the Authorization Manager, to build Hyper-V’s
user permissions system.
Video 10 - "Introducing & Installing VMM" - Using Hyper-V alone works great
when you have but a few hosts. But when your count of hosts gets much beyond one
or two, you'll probably need the extra management capabilities you get in System
Center Virtual Machine Manager. VMM automates many common tasks in the Hyper-V
virtualization environment, making it possible to manage multiple hosts as one.
It also spreads itself across multiple servers in your environment such as SQL,
file, IIS, and OpsMgr. Learn in this video what VMM needs, as well as how to get
it installed onto the right hosts in your environment.
Video 11 - "Managing Hyper-V Hosts with VMM" - Getting VMM installed is just
the first step with its management as well. Step two is involved with connecting
it to your Hyper-V hosts. But there’s more to VMM than just the Hyper-V hosts in
your domain. Hosts outside the domain and outside your firewall are options for
management. Even the VMware ESX servers in your environment are good candidates.
This video will show you many of the different options to consolidate your
virtualization under VMM’s unified management.
Video 12 - "Understanding & Working with the VMM Library" - A VMM Library is
a collection of resources that are used in the management of your virtual
machines. It sits atop a file server and contains needed elements like ISO
files, virtual machine disk files, and configuration templates. This video
explores creating and working with VMM Library servers and shares, as well as
how to get the most out of them.
Video 13 - "VM Rapid Deployment in VMM" - One of VMM’s great powers is in
its rapid deployment of virtual machines. Using VMM, you can create templates
for virtual machine deployment that create new VMs in just a few clicks. The
result is a further improvement to your daily workflow, especially for
environments with large levels of turnover. This video discusses the process
you'll need to create your “golden images” from which new virtual machines are
created as well as how to rapidly deploy them as you need them.
Video 14 - "Managing High Availability in VMM" - To this point, we've spent
some time working with highly-available virtual machines in the context of
Hyper-V. VMM does high-availability too, and with much greater ease than Hyper-V
alone. Expand on your Windows Clustering knowledge with this third video, which
explains the high-availability options and best practices you get when you
upgrade to VMM.
Video 15 - "Converting Machines, P2V & V2V" - The P2V and V2V tools
available today are stable, mature, and ready for use. Microsoft’s tools also
arrive at no extra cost when you upgrade to VMM. This short nugget explains the
processes as well as some of the gotchas you'll discover when you start rolling
physical machines into your virtual environment. It also discusses the steps
you'll need to know to convert virtual machines from VMware to VMM.
Video 16 - "Configuring User Profiles & Self-Service" - AzMan is a
challenging tool with Hyper-V alone. VMM enhances its usability by creating a
friendly GUI for user management. It also adds self-service capabilities through
an IIS-based self-service portal. Combining rapid deployment with VMM along with
this portal, you can enable your users themselves to generate their own virtual
machines, based on the templates you create. This single feature can
dramatically reduce your time creating new machines over and over to feed the
needs of your users, freeing you for the more useful and interesting tasks in
IT.
Video 17 - "Installing & Using PRO Tips" - Let’s face it: PerfMon is a
challenging tool, no matter if its physical or virtual. Monitoring virtual
machines with PerfMon is a tough process, even if you're familiar with its
idiosyncrasies. VMM combines with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager
to take PerfMon far beyond the next level. This nugget discusses the
integrations between OpsMgr and VMM, as well as using this combination to create
automated actions for load balancing and pre-failure failover with Performance
and Resource Optimization (PRO) Tips.
Video 18 - "Integrating VMM with vCenter" - Hyper-V’s relative late arrival
on the virtual scene means that you may already have a VMware-based virtual
infrastructure in place. If you want to leverage both solutions, you probably
wish for a single pane of glass to manage them both. You can do just that with
VMM’s vCenter integrations. Using VMM, you can manage your VMware ESX hosts in
the very same ways you manage your Hyper-V infrastructure. All you need is a
connection and a few passwords to create a single management GUI out of both
virtualization platforms.
Video 19 - "Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell" - One of VMM’s greatest powers
is that it lies atop Microsoft PowerShell. Every action you attempt within the
VMM console is actually run via a PowerShell script. This means that a smart
administrator can easily create their own custom PowerShell scripts to
accomplish common tasks without the overhead of the VMM console. Learn some of
the common PowerShell commands that work with both Hyper-V and VMM, as well as
how to automatically create your own PowerShell commands for later customization
right within the VMM console.
Video 20 - "What to Expect with Hyper-V in R2" - From the perspective of its
GUI management consoles, Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 looks very similar
to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 RTM. Yet under the covers and away from view,
there are a number of key improvements that make it more stable, more powerful,
and more highly-available. What’s best is that upgrading your skills from R1 to
R2 doesn't require much in the way of new processes. Learn just what those few
new processes are in this final video, which closes out the series, and finishes
your preparation for your Hyper-V exams and your future virtual management!
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