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Introduction to Hyper-V, VMM, and Microsoft Virtualization
Welcome to Hyper-V! Microsoft’s virtualization solution is enterprise-ready and primed for introduction into your datacenter. But you need to know about it, and this video series will get you there, starting with a short introduction into the CBTN learning style, the environment we'll be building over the next 20 videos, and the test elements you need to prepare for. Whether you're preparing for Microsoft’s MCTS exams, or you just need some on-the-job training, your starting point is here for Hyper-V excellence.
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Planning your Virtualization Infrastructure
Did you know that 44% of virtualization deployments aren't considered a success by their business? Were you aware that 55% of companies report that they experience more problems with virtualization than benefits? The results of a few recent studies show that you can't just Next, Next, Finish your way to virtualization success. You must plan for it, prepare for it, and determine which physical machines make sense for your virtual environment. This video discusses just those steps in your virtualization implementation, helping you plan for success in your virtual infrastructure.
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Configuring Windows Server 2008 for Hyper-V
Once your planning is complete, the next step is in getting your Windows Server 2008 machines ready for Hyper-V. This nugget discusses the prerequisites for Hyper-V as well as some tips and tricks for quickly determining whether your existing infrastructure will support its needs. It concludes with an installation of the Hyper-V role to a Windows Server 2008 computer, showing you how easy it is to enable a server for Hyper-V.
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Creating & Working with Virtual Machines
There are a lot of common tasks that need to be done with any computer, no matter if its physical or virtual: powering on, powering off, resetting, creating, removing, etc. Virtualization makes many of these processes easier, while adding new ones like taking snapshots with rollback, changing virtual hardware, among others. This nugget will roll you through what you need to know to operate your virtual machines with Hyper-V.
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Monitoring Virtual Machine Processing
One of the most important– if not the most important task – in managing your virtual infrastructure is keeping tabs on your virtual machines’ performance. Doing that with Hyper-V alone requires looking at some new PerfMon counters that weren't there before. It also requires looking at counters in different ways than you're used to. Learn about those new methods as well as the new counters in this video. You'll discover which counters are useful and which you can safely ignore.
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Managing Snapshots & Backups
Virtualization improves the utility of backups while at the same time it makes backups more complicated. Were you aware that adding virtualization to an environment can quadruple the perspectives where backups can come from? Learn each of those four perspectives as well as when each makes sense in this nugget. You'll learn how to configure Hyper-V for backups, as well as when to backup from within virtual machines as opposed to from the perspective of their host.
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Understanding & Installing Failover Clustering
Consolidating many virtual machines to a few hosts does great things for reducing your data center’s footprint, but it also increases the effect of a single host’s loss. Environments that can't tolerate downtime (and who can these days) need high-availability if they're to survive the loss of a virtual host. In this nugget you'll learn the basics of high availability with Windows Failover Clustering. You'll learn what you need to be successful with a cluster, as well as what it can protect. By its end you'll know everything you need to deploy a cluster to keep your virtual machines safe.
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Managing High Availability & Quick Migration
And yet deploying that cluster is only the first step. Microsoft’s solution for high-availability uses general-purpose clustering technology that often requires a few extra steps to properly manage. Keep on top of your cluster management with the information you'll gain in this nugget. You'll learn the tips and tricks necessary to be successful with clustering, as well as Hyper-V’s Quick Migration.
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Configuring User Permissions in Hyper-V
If you're not the only administrator in your environment, the odds are good you'll want some additional lock downs for your Hyper-V infrastructure. Here's the hard part: when using Hyper-V alone, creating those user permissions isn't a trivial task. Learn how to customize Microsoft’s AzMan, the Authorization Manager, to build Hyper-V’s user permissions system.
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Introducing & Installng VMM
Using Hyper-V alone works great when you have but a few hosts. But when your count of hosts gets much beyond one or two, you'll probably need the extra management capabilities you get in System Center Virtual Machine Manager. VMM automates many common tasks in the Hyper-V virtualization environment, making it possible to manage multiple hosts as one. It also spreads itself across multiple servers in your environment such as SQL, file, IIS, and OpsMgr. Learn in this video what VMM needs, as well as how to get it installed onto the right hosts in your environment.
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Managing Hyper-V Hosts with VMM
Getting VMM installed is just the first step with its management as well. Step two is involved with connecting it to your Hyper-V hosts. But there’s more to VMM than just the Hyper-V hosts in your domain. Hosts outside the domain and outside your firewall are options for management. Even the VMware ESX servers in your environment are good candidates. This video will show you many of the different options to consolidate your virtualization under VMM’s unified management.
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Understanding & Working with the VMM Library
A VMM Library is a collection of resources that are used in the management of your virtual machines. It sits atop a file server and contains needed elements like ISO files, virtual machine disk files, and configuration templates. This video explores creating and working with VMM Library servers and shares, as well as how to get the most out of them.
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VM Rapid Deployment in VMM
One of VMM’s great powers is in its rapid deployment of virtual machines. Using VMM, you can create templates for virtual machine deployment that create new VMs in just a few clicks. The result is a further improvement to your daily workflow, especially for environments with large levels of turnover. This video discusses the process you'll need to create your “golden images” from which new virtual machines are created as well as how to rapidly deploy them as you need them.
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Managing High Availability in VMM
To this point, we've spent some time working with highly-available virtual machines in the context of Hyper-V. VMM does high-availability too, and with much greater ease than Hyper-V alone. Expand on your Windows Clustering knowledge with this third video, which explains the high-availability options and best practices you get when you upgrade to VMM.
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Converting Machines, P2V & V2V
The P2V and V2V tools available today are stable, mature, and ready for use. Microsoft’s tools also arrive at no extra cost when you upgrade to VMM. This short nugget explains the processes as well as some of the gotchas you'll discover when you start rolling physical machines into your virtual environment. It also discusses the steps you'll need to know to convert virtual machines from VMware to VMM.
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Configuring User Roles & Self-Service
AzMan is a challenging tool with Hyper-V alone. VMM enhances its usability by creating a friendly GUI for user management. It also adds self-service capabilities through an IIS-based self-service portal. Combining rapid deployment with VMM along with this portal, you can enable your users themselves to generate their own virtual machines, based on the templates you create. This single feature can dramatically reduce your time creating new machines over and over to feed the needs of your users, freeing you for the more useful and interesting tasks in IT.
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Installing and Using PRO Tips
Let’s face it: PerfMon is a challenging tool, no matter if its physical or virtual. Monitoring virtual machines with PerfMon is a tough process, even if you're familiar with its idiosyncrasies. VMM combines with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager to take PerfMon far beyond the next level. This nugget discusses the integrations between OpsMgr and VMM, as well as using this combination to create automated actions for load balancing and pre-failure failover with Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Tips.
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Integrating VMM with vCenter
Hyper-V’s relative late arrival on the virtual scene means that you may already have a VMware-based virtual infrastructure in place. If you want to leverage both solutions, you probably wish for a single pane of glass to manage them both. You can do just that with VMM’s vCenter integrations. Using VMM, you can manage your VMware ESX hosts in the very same ways you manage your Hyper-V infrastructure. All you need is a connection and a few passwords to create a single management GUI out of both virtualization platforms.
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Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell
One of VMM’s greatest powers is that it lies atop Microsoft PowerShell. Every action you attempt within the VMM console is actually run via a PowerShell script. This means that a smart administrator can easily create their own custom PowerShell scripts to accomplish common tasks without the overhead of the VMM console. Learn some of the common PowerShell commands that work with both Hyper-V and VMM, as well as how to automatically create your own PowerShell commands for later customization right within the VMM console.
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What to Expect with Hyper-V in R2
From the perspective of its GUI management consoles, Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 looks very similar to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 RTM. Yet under the covers and away from view, there are a number of key improvements that make it more stable, more powerful, and more highly-available. What’s best is that upgrading your skills from R1 to R2 doesn't require much in the way of new processes. Learn just what those few new processes are in this final video, which closes out the series, and finishes your preparation for your Hyper-V exams and your future virtual management!
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