Configuring and Administering Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012

Module 1: Planning for Virtualization

Lessons

• Overview of Microsoft Virtualization
• Assessment of Virtualization Candidates
• Planning for Virtualization

Lab : Assessing the Environment for Virtualization

• Planning for the Hyper-V Server Role
• Assess the environment by using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit

After Completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe virtualization.
• Describe the options available for server virtualization.
• Describe requirements for Hyper-V sever role.
• Design solutions using Hyper-V disks and storage.
• Design solutions using high availability for Hyper-V.
• Assess and environment using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit.

Module 2: Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V

Lessons

• Implementing Hyper-V
• Managing Virtual Machine Storage
• Managing Virtual Networks

Lab : Installing and Configuring the Hyper-V Server Role

• Installing the Hyper-V Server Role
• Plan for Virtual Switch Configuration
• Configuring Virtual Networking

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the Hyper-V integration services.
• Install Hyper-V Server Role.
• Manage virtual machine storage.
• Manage virtual networks.
• Describe Hyper-V Extensible Switch.
• Describe Data Center Bridging (DCB).
• Describe Resource Metering in Hyper-V.

Module 3: Creating and Configuring Virtual Hard Disks and Virtual Machines

Lessons

• Creating and Configuring Virtual Hard Disks
• Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines
• Managing Virtual Machine Snapshots
• Virtual Machine Import

Lab : Creating Virtual Hard Disks and Virtual Machines

• Creating Virtual Hard Disks
• Creating New Virtual Machines
• Modifying Virtual Machine Settings
• Creating and Modifying Virtual Machine Snapshots
• Import Virtual Machines into Hyper-V

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe storage options for virtual machines.
• Describe the new vhdx format.
• Attach physical disks to a virtual machine.
• Describe pass-through disks.
• Create a new virtual hard disk using the new Virtual Hard Disk Wizard.
• Describe considerations for creating new virtual machines.
• Create a new virtual machine.
• Configure virtual machine settings.
• Creating and managing virtual machine snapshots.
• Describe Virtual Fibre Channel HBAs.
• Describe Multipath I/O (MPIO) functionality for Fibre Channel storage
• Describe the new Virtual Machine import features in Windows Server 2012
• Describe the P2V process
• Import Virtual machines without exports
• Plan for importing Virtual Machine from Windows Server 2008 R2
• Describe the virtual machine compatibility report
• Describe the PowerShell commands for importing Virtual Machines 

Module 4: Configure Networking in Hyper-V

Lessons

• Advanced features of Virtual Network Adapters
• Hyper-V Network Virtualization
• Hyper-V Extensible Switch

Lab : Configuring Network Settings

• Configure NIC Teaming
• Configure Advanced Network Settings

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe Hyper-V Extensible Switch.
• Describe Hyper-V Network Virtualization.
• Implement NIC Teaming.
• Describe VLAN Tagging.
• Understand MAC and ARP spoofing protections.
• Describe SR-IOV networking
• Implement Network QoS
• Implement Network metering
• Describe Network monitor modes
• Describe IPsec task offload
• Describe VM Trunk Mode

Module 5: Scale-up Virtual Machines

Lessons

• Overview of Scale-up options in Windows Server 2012
• Non-uniform memory access (NUMA)
• Hyper-v Scale Comparison

Lab : Configuring NUMA

• Planning for Hyper-V Scale
• Configuring NUMA

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the scale-up options in Windows Server 2012
• Describe Scaling in Hyper-V
• Plan for NUMA
• Plan for Hyper-V Scaling
• Describe how SQL Server supports NUMA
• Describe Dynamic Memory. Startup memory, and minimum memory
• Describe Hyper-V smart paging

Module 6: Hyper-V Replica and Disaster Recovery

Lessons

• Overview of Hyper-V Replica
• Configuring Hyper-V Replica
• Hyper-V Replica Failover Operations
• Hyper-V Backup

Lab : Configuring Hyper-V Replica and Backups

• Configure Hyper-V Replica
• Configure Hyper-V Backup and Recovery

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe Hyper-V Replica.
• Describe Hyper-V Replica Security.
• Describe Hyper-V clustering enhancements.
• Design High-Availability Hyper-V Solutions.
• Understand unplanned failover.
• Understand planned failovers.
• Design backup solutions for Hyper-V hosts.
• Design backup solutions for virtual machines.
• Restore Hyper-V hosts from backup.
• Restore virtual machines from backup.

Module 7: Hyper-V Migration

Lessons

• Live Migration Overview
• Storage Migration Overview
• Live Migration Security
• Live Migration using SMB

Lab : Implementing Migration in Hyper-V

• Configure a Failover Cluster for Hyper-V
• Configure a Highly Available Virtual Machine
• Configure Live Migration using SMB

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe Storage Migration
• Design Storage Migration
• Describe the PowerShell commands for importing Virtual Machines
• Configure live migration without shared storage
• Describe Guest Fibre Channel
• Describe secure offloaded data transfer

• Implement Live Migration

• Describe mobility and protection technologies

• Describe "shared nothing" migration

• Describe Live Migration without Infrastructure

• Describe Live Migration using SMB

• Describe Live Migration between clusters

• Describe Live Migration Security