Infrastructure Provisioning with System Center Virtual Machine Manager

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. This course primarily covers the advanced and enterprise-level technologies and solutions available through Microsoft virtualization, networking and storage.

Course Objectives

• Perform initial configuration tasks in Virtual Machine Manager including:
• Review and prepare the Hyper-V environment for Virtual Machine Manager
• Add Hyper-V Hosts to Virtual Machine Manager
• Configuring Host Groups
• Use Virtual Machine Manager PowerShell Cmdlets
• Configure High Availability for Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager including:
• Reviewing Distributed Key Management
• Configuring SQL AlwaysOn
• Clustering Hyper-V Hosts
• Configuring High Availability for the management Virtual Machines
• Update the Virtual Machine Manager environment including:
• How to update Virtual Machine Manager
• Configuring and using Baselines to update the Virtual Machine Manager infrastructure
• Configure advanced networking in Virtual Machine Manager including:
• Creating Logical Networks
• Creating Uplink and Virtual Port Profiles
• Creating and deploying Logical Switches
• Creating VM Networks
• Configure Storage in Virtual Machine Manager including:
• Discovering, classifying, creating and allocating storage
• Configure the Virtual Machine Manager Library and Library objects including:
• Creating Library Servers
• Enabling de-duplication
• Adding Library Servers to VMM
• Synchronizing Libraries
• Prepare a Windows Server Operating system for deployment including:
• Using Sysprep
• Using an Unattent.xml file
• Converting a WIM to VHDx
• Configuring bare-metal deployments of Hyper-V and Scale-out file servers
• Configure Virtual Machine and Service Templates including:
• Creating Hardware Profiles
• Creating Guest OS Profiles
• Importing and configuring Service Templates
• Configure System Center Integration including:
• Configuring integration with Operations Manager
• Configuring integration with Orchestrator
• Using Operations Manager to troubleshoot problems detected in Virtual Machine Manager
• Perform an express deployment of Windows Azure Pack including:
• Configuring a VM Cloud
• Configuring User Accounts
• Configuring Plans
• Deploying a Virtual Machine
• Configure Azure Site Recovery including:
• Configuring replication to Azure
• Recovering a virtual machine from Azure