50273 - Planning and Designing Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

After completing this course, students will be able to:
Evaluate benefits of implementing virtualization technologies
Understand how virtualization technology can be used to create more flexible and dynamic data center and desktop infrastructures
Understand the selection process for local desktop or central VDI environments
Design virtualization solutions for datacenter and desktop infrastructures
Plan virtualization services such as Hyper-V, RDS,MED-V, and APP-V
Integrate System Center Suite into a virtualization infrastructure to provide an end-to-end management strategy
Understand and plan virtual machine conversion and deployment options
Plan enterprise storage solutions to support virtualization infrastructures
Design high-availability virtualization solutions
Plan an enterprise backup and recovery strategy

Module 1: Planning a Virtualization Strategy

This module will review key factors that must be considered when planning a data center or desktop virtualization strategy.

Lessons

·        Understanding Virtualization Levels 

·        Defining the Case for Virtualization 

·        Reviewing Virtualization Technologies

·        Reviewing the System Center Suite

·        Understanding Licensing Options

·        Reviewing Integration with Third-Party Products

Lab : Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Installation

·        Installing Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 

·        Configuring Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

Lab : Windows XP Mode Installation

·        Installing Windows 7 

·        Install Windows Virtual PC 

·        Install Windows XP Mode 

·        Configuring and Launching a Virtual Application

Lab : Application Virtualization 4.6 Installation

·        Installing Application Virtualization Management Server

·        Configuring the Windows Firewall

·        Installing Application Virtualization Desktop Client

·        Configuring the Default Application

·        Launching the Default Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

·        Understand the major factors to consider when they begin to architect a data center or desktop virtualization infrastructure.

·        Envision a virtualization infrastructure strategy based on a set of basic business and technical requirements.

Module 2: Designing a Virtualization Platform Infrastructure and High-Availability Strategy

This module will explain how to design a highly-available server virtualization infrastructure using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

Lessons

·        Defining Server Virtualization Scenarios

·        Defining Hyper-V Base Architectures 

·        Performing a Pre-Design Discovery 

·        Designing a Server Virtualization Infrastructure 

·        Designing the Hyper-V Host Architecture 

·        Designing the Virtual Machine Architecture 

·        Sizing a Hyper-V Host Farm

Lab : Configuring and Using MAP 4.0

·        Collecting Client Inventory Data

·        Assessing Windows 7 Readiness

·        Defining and Setting Custom Assessment Properties

Lab : Hyper-V Storage Design and Configuration

·        Building a Large disk

·        Duplicating a Disk

·        Designing a Pass-through Disk

·        Designing a Mobile Clustering Storage Solution

Lab : Hyper-V Virtual Network Design and Configuration

·        Virtual Network Design For VM Isolation

·        Virtual Network Design Between Virtual Machines Using VLANs

·        Virtual Network Design Using VLANs

Lab : Hyper-V Platform Virtualization Design Exercise

·        Collecting Performance Data

·        Obtaining Inventory Data for the Design Exercise

·        Design Exercise

·        Server Consolidation Using Virtualization

Lab : Optional: Two-Node Virtual Machine Failover Cluster

·        Add and Configure Virtual Network Adapters

·        Configuring the iSCSI Shared Disks

·        Adding the Failover Clustering Feature to the Virtual Machines

·        Configuring Failover Clustering on the Virtual Machines

·        Using Failover Cluster Manager

Lab : Optional: Two-Node Hyper-V Host Failover Cluster with Live Migration

·        Prepare the Physical Machines

·        Configure the iSCSI Target

·        Configure the iSCSI Initiator

·        Adding the Failover Clustering Feature to the Hyper-V Hosts

·        Configuring Failover Clustering on the Hyper-V Hosts

·        Configuring Cluster Shared Volumes

·        Creating a New Virtual Machine

·        Making a Virtual Machine Highly Available

·        Configuring Cluster Networks for Live Migration

·        Initiating a Live Migration

·        Live Migration of a High-Availability Virtual Machine

After completing this module, students will be able to:

·        Understand and design a Windows Server 208 R2 Hyper-V Virtualization Infrastructure

·        Understand Hyper-V storage options and design a storage environment

·        Understand Hyper-V virtual networks options and design a virtual network environment

·        Understand Hyper-V Snapshots and how to manage a Snapshot hierarchy

·        Understand Hyper-V host and virtual machine failover cluster options for high-availability and how to design a high-availability environment

Module 3: Designing a Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure

This module will explain how to design a virtualized desktop infrastructure based on a local desktop or central VDI strategy.

Lessons

·        Defining Desktop Virtualization Scenarios

·        Designing a Local Desktop Infrastructure 

·        Designing a VDI Deployment using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and RDS

This course is intended for Infrastructure Architects and Virtualization Specialists who are responsible for designing, deploying, and managing one or more data center or desktop virtualization environments.

Before attending this course, students must have:
Windows Server 2008 R2 knowledge and experience
Fundamental knowledge of Hyper-V
Fundamental knowledge of Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
Fundamental knowledge of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
Fundamental knowledge of Application Virtualization (APP-V)
Fundamental knowledge of System Center products including System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and System Center Data Protection Manager