Hyper-V Syllabus Windows Server 2012 R2

1. Preparing a Hyper-V Environment

Introduction to virtualization

Investigating Type I and Type II hypervisors

Validating the hardware and software prerequisites

Comparing Hyper-V to Vmware and Xen offerings

Implementing Hyper-V

Enabling the server role

Leveraging management interfaces

2. Building Virtual Machines (Vms)

Configuring the virtual hardware

Allocating CPU resources

Distributing static and dynamic memory

Connecting to removable hardware

Architecting the storage fabric

Constructing dynamic and fixed-sized virtual hard disks

Increasing performance with pass-through disks

Reverting system state with snapshots

Converting, compressing and expanding VHDs

Creating virtual networks

Optimizing network performance

Implementing external, internal and private switches

3. Optimizing and Troubleshooting

Monitoring the virtual infrastructure

Exploiting the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) results

Inspecting live parent and child performance data

Gathering hypervisor metrics through Performance Monitor

Detecting and resolving issues

Examining and filtering event logs

Triggering alerts for efficient remediation

Controlling resource usage

4. Relocating Virtual Machines and Disks

Transferring backend data

Importing and exporting virtual machines

Performing online storage migrations

Redistributing Hyper-V workloads with live migrations

Migrating locally stored Vms between hosts

Optimizing migrations with Storage Area Networks (SANs)

5. Increasing Service and Application Availability

Eliminating single points of failure

Avoiding network outages with NIC teaming

Mirroring Vms in real time with Hyper-V replicas

Improving fault tolerance with failover clusters

Monitoring cluster resources and VM states

Configuring appropriate quorum models

Expediting live migration with clustering

6. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

Establishing a private cloud

Correlating benefits and organizational goals

Centralizing administration with the VMM console

Integrating VMM with other System Center components

Augmenting functionality with add-ons and extensions

Accelerating VM deployments

Deploying Vms from predefined templates

Standardizing hardware and OS settings with profiles

Converting existing physical servers with P2V tools

Migrating from competing virtualization platforms

Centralizing performance management

Collecting data from the virtual infrastructure

Limiting CPU and memory consumption

Automating load distribution with Dynamic Optimization

7. Securing the Virtual Environment

Ensuring data protection

Assessing parent and guest initiated backups

Identifying required backup application features

Minimizing security risks

Reducing the potential for malware and other attacks

Delegating control through the AppController web portal

8. Deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Contrasting hardware and licensing requirements

App-V

RemoteApp

Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

Tailoring VDI to meet organizational needs

Assigning personal virtual desktops to users

Simplifying management with virtual desktop pools

Hyper-V 3.0 Syllabus Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V 3.0 Syllabus  Windows Server 2012

Module 1 - Hyper-V 3.0 Introduction
- Review Hyper-V architecture
- Review 2K8R2 SP1 enhancements
- Discuss Hyper-V 3.0 versions
- Highlight new feature areas and scenarios
- Server Manager 2012 intro
- Lab Join Domain, Install Hyper-V 3.0 review of management copy template VMS from
classroom server
Module 2 - Hyper-V Solution Accelerators & System Center
- Microsoft Assessment platform 2.0
- Microsoft Virtual Machine Convertor
- Virtual Machine Offline Servicing Tool 4.0
- Review Private cloud concept & highlight System Center products especially VMM,
App Controller & Orchestrator.
Module 3 - Scalability, Automation & Metering Enhancements
- New Hyper-V limits
- New VM limits
- Dynamic memory changes
- Hyper-V PowerShell
- NUMA Support
- Resource metering
- Lab create VM's and use them to force smart paging
Module 4 - Networking Improvements
- Overview of the Virtual Switch Improvements
- SR-IOV Networking support
- NDIS filter Drivers
- WFP Callout Drivers
- Discuss disadvantages with VLANs & IP Address Assignment
- Network Virtualization Network Isolation and IP Address Reuse
- Enables move to IaaS Cloud
- Live Migration across subnets
- Improve resource utilization
- Lab Build virtual network.
Module 5 - Storage Improvements
- New VHDX format
- Support for Large Sector disks (512e & 4K)
- Support for SMB connect storage
- Virtual Fibre Channel
- Offload Data Transfer
- Lab demo Offload Data Transfer
Module 6 - Virtual Machine Migration
- New Virtual Machine Import/export
- Live Migration Faster 10GBe supported
- No cluster requirement
- Multiple Migrations
- Live Migration Configuring
- Live Migration Security
- How Live Migration works
- Storage Migration
- Requirements
- Technical Overview
- Lab shared nothing Migration. Use CSSP & Certs
Module 7 - Virtual Machine Protection
- Why Clustering
- Cluster Scale
- Cluster UI changes
- Cluster Shared Volumes 2.0
- Clustering scalability
- Virtual Machine Application Management and Monitoring
- Cluster aware updating
- LAB Build cluster, patch it, migrate VM. Destroy cluster
- Introduction Hyper-V Replica
- Hyper-V Replica scenarios
- Hyper-V Replica Configuring
- Hyper-V Replica Security
- LAB Enable Hyper-V Replica and perform all 3 scenarios, Test/planned/unplanned
Module 8 - Remote Desktop Services
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure scenario
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure deployment
- Remote Desktop Session virtualization scenario
- Remote Desktop Session virtualization deployment
- LAB Deploy VDI scenario
Module 9 Additional Virtualization Features of Windows Server 2012
- Cloning Active Directory Domain Controllers
- Snapshot Active Directory Domain Controllers
- Lab Create DC, Snap it, Change, roll back.

CCNA Topics 2013 - Exam 200-120

CCNA Topics 2013 - Exam 200-120

IP Data Networks

• Understand the operation of data networks.
• Know the purpose and functions of network devices such as routers, switches, bridges and hubs.
• Be able to select components to meet a specific network requirement.
• Understand how certain applications can impact network performance.
• Know the protocols, purpose and operation of both the OSI and TCP/IP models.
• Describe the data flow between two hosts on a network
• Be able to choose the most appropriate cables, media, ports and connectors to connect network devices and hosts to a LAN.

LAN Switching

• Understand the media access control method for Ethernet.
• Describe the basic switching concepts and the operation of switches.
• Configure and verify switch configuration including remote access management.
• Verify a network and switch operation using basic utilities such as ping, telnet and SSH.
• Describe VLANs and the need for routing between VLANs.
• Understand network segmentation and traffic management.
• Be able to configure and verify VLANs.
• Configure and verify trunking on Cisco switches.
• Understand advanced switching technologies:
  • RSTP
  • PVSTP
  • EtherChannel
• Be able to configure and verify PVSTP operation.
• Describe the process of root bridge election.

IP Addressing (IPv4 and IPv6)

• Describe the need for public and private addresses for IPv4.
• Understand IPv6 addresses.
• Describe the appropriate IPv6 addressing scheme for a LAN/WAN environment.
• Describe the appropriate IPv4 addressing scheme for a LAN/WAN environment, including VLSM and summarization.
• Describe the technologies required to run IPv6 and IPv4 concurrently such as dual stack.

IP Routing

• Understand the basic routing concepts.
• Understand the boot process of a Cisco router.
• Configure and verify a basic router configuration using the command line interface.
• Configure and verify both serial and Ethernet interfaces.
• Be able to verify the network connectivity and configuration of a router.
• Configure a static or default route given specific requirements, then verify.
• Manage Cisco IOS files and image(s).
• Understand Cisco IOS licensing.
• Understand and distinguish different methods of routing and routing protocols.
• Configure and verify EIGRP in a single autonomous system.
• Configure and verify OSPF (v2 and v3) in a single area.
• Configure and verify interVLAN routing using router-on-a-stick.
• Be able to configure SVI interfaces.

IP Services

• Configure and verify DHCP on a Cisco router.
• Understand the features and applications of each type of ACL.
• Be able to configure and verify ACLs.
• Understand the basic operation of NAT.
• Configure and verify NAT based on a set of network requirements.
• Be able to configure and verify NTP as a client.
• Recognize high availability FHRP.
• Understand, configure and verify Syslog and utilize Syslog output.
• Understand SNMP v2 and v3.

Network Device Security

• Be able to configure and verify device security features.
• Understand, configure and verify switch port security features.
• Configure and verify ACLs for filtering network traffic.
• Limit telnet and SSH access to a router by configuring ACLs.

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot and correct common issues concerning IP addressing and host configurations.
• Be able to utilize netflow and monitor data.
• Troubleshoot and fix spanning tree operation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve routing issues, including OSPF, and EIGRP.
• Troubleshoot and correct VLAN problems.
• Identify and resolve interVLAN problems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve switch trunking issues.
• Troubleshoot and fix ACL problems.
• Troubleshoot and correct layer 1 problems.
• Troubleshoot and correct WAN issues.
• Troubleshoot EtherChannel issues.

WAN Technologies

• Understand and identify different WAN technologies including:
  • Metro Ethernet
  • Frame Relay
  • VSAT
  • Cellular 3G and 4G
  • MPLS
  • T1/E1
  • ISDN
  • DSL
  • Cable
  • VPN
• Configure and verify a serial WAN connection.
• Configure Frame Relay on Cisco routers including verification.
• Be able to configure and verify a PPP connection between two Cisco routers.
• Configure and troubleshoot PPPoE.