Infrastructure Provisioning with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (NE-10981)

Course details

Introduction

Learn how to install and configure Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager and manage enterprise datacenter resources with this five-day course. This course is part two in a series of two courses that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to implement an enterprise virtualization solution. This course will cover implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 environment using System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. Although there is some cross-over of skills and tasks across these courses, this course primarily covers the advanced and enterprise-level technologies and solutions available through Microsoft virtualization,networking and storage. Using hand-on labs, students will learn the following:

• New features and capabilities in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.
• How to configure High Availability for Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager.
• How to update the Virtual Machine Manager environment and underlying Fabric infrastructure including considerations for other System Center components.
• How to configure advanced networking features in Virtual Machine Manager such as Uplink Port Profiles and Virtual Port Profiles.
• How to configure Storage in Virtual Machine Manager including the advantages and disadvantages between different storage types.
• How to manage clouds in Virtual Machine Manager including configuring cloud resources and provisioning access to a cloud.
• How to configure and manage the Library in Virtual Machine Manager including Library synchronization and equivalence objects.
• How to prepare the Windows Operating System for deployment in Virtual Machine Manager including how to use Sysprep, WIM and an unattend.xml file.
• How to configure and use Virtual Machine Templates and Service Templates in Virtual Machine Manager including how Service Templates are used in a real-world scenario.
• How Virtual Machine Manager integrates with other System Center components such as Operations Manager and Orchestrator including how Operations Manager monitors the Virtual Machine Manager environment.
• An overview of Windows Azure Pack including how to complete an express deployment and how to configure VM Clouds.
• How to configure Azure Site Recovery to replicate and recover virtual machines.

Course Content

• Module 1: Overview of Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager
• Module 2: Configuring High Availability for Virtual Machine Manager and Hyper-V
• Module 3: Updating Virtual Machine Manager and Fabric Servers
• Module 4: Configuring Networking in Virtual Machine Manager
• Module 5: Configuring Storage in Virtual Machine Manager
• Module 6: Managing Clouds in Virtual Machine Manager
• Module 7: Configuring and Managing the Virtual Machine Manager Library and Library Objects
• Module 8: Preparing the Windows Operating System for deployment in Virtual Machine Manager
• Module 9: Virtual Machine and Service Templates
• Module 10: System Center Integration
• Module 11: Windows Azure Pack
• Module 12: Azure Site Recovery