System Centre Virtual Machine Mangar 2012 Syllabus(SCCM)

1. Introduction to the System Center 2012 Suite

Define a Private Cloud

Describe how Microsoft's System Center products fit into the concept of a private cloud

Describe the functionality of each System Center product

Describe Private Cloud Scenarios

2. Introduction to System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012

Describe the main features of SCVMM 2012

Design Scenarios

Deployment scenarios

Hypervisor Requirements

Storage Requirements

Network Requirements

Third-Party Integration

3. Install and Configure VMM Server

VMM Server

VMM Console

VMM Database

VMM Self-Service Portal

VMM Library Server

VMM Hosts

Installation walk-through

4. Fabric Resources

Hosts

Networking

Storage

Library Servers and Shares

5. Configure Load Balancers

MSFT NLB available by default

Install configuration provider for 3rd party - F5, Brocade, Citrix

Prerequisites

6. Create a Private Cloud

Selecting fabric resources

Select library resources

Set Capacity

7. Create Virtual Machine

Blank Disk

Existing VHD

Existing VM

VM Template

P2V or V2V

8. Configure VM Template

Existing Template

Existing VHD

Existing VM

9. Configuring Security

Run As Accounts

User Roles

Ports and Protocols

10. Configure Guest OS & Hardware Profiles

Memory

CPUs

Network Adapters and connections

Optical Drive

Guest OS Profile

11. PowerShell Components

Include "View Script" in every lab.

12. Configure Application Profiles

Server App-V

Web Deploy

SQL DAC

Scripted Installations

13. Configure Service Templates

Service Template Designer

14. Performance Maintenance

Update Compliance

Dynamic Optimization

Power Optimization

PRO Tips

15. Monitoring and Reporting

Operations Manager Integration

16. Troubleshooting

Installation Logs

VMM Configuration Analyzer

WMI for VMM

Virtual Machine Recovery Tool

MS Product Support Reporting Tool

VMM Error Codes

17. System Center 2012 Service Pack 1

Changes in pre-requisites

Functionality Enhancements

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.