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Windows Server 2012 R2: Virtualization Infrastructure

This course explores how to plan and implement virtualization hosts, networking, storage, virtual machines, and virtual machine movement, as well as manage and maintain a server virtualization infrastructure.

Intermediate
4h 27m
(38)

Created by Greg Shields

Last Updated Feb 02, 2022

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Windows Server 2012 R2: Virtualization Infrastructure

This course explores how to plan and implement virtualization hosts, networking, storage, virtual machines, and virtual machine movement, as well as manage and maintain a server virtualization infrastructure.

Intermediate
4h 27m
(38)

Created by Greg Shields

Last Updated Feb 02, 2022

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What you'll learn

In this course, you'll learn how to: plan for and implement delegation of a virtualization environment, including self-service capabilities, plan and implement multi-host libraries including equivalent objects, plan for and implement host resource optimization, integrate third-party virtualization platforms, deploy Hyper-V hosts to bare metal, plan for and configure VMM logical networks, including virtual switch extensions and logical switches, plan for and configure IP address and MAC address settings across multiple Hyper-V hosts, including network virtualization, plan for and configure virtual network optimization, plan and implement VM networks, plan and implement Windows Server Gateway, plan and implement VLANs and PVLANs, plan and implement converged networks, plan for and configure Hyper-V host clustered storage, plan for and configure Hyper-V virtual machine storage, including virtual fibre channel, iSCSI, and shared VHDX, plan and implement storage using SMB 3.0 file shares, plan for storage optimization, create VMM templates, plan for and implement highly available VMs, plan for and implement guest resource optimization, including shared VHDX, configure placement rules, plan for and configure live and storage migration between Hyper-V hosts, plan for and manage P2V and V2V, plan and implement VM migration between clouds, manage dynamic optimization and resource optimization, integrate Operations Manager with System Center VMM and System Center Service Manager, update VM images in libraries, and plan for and implement backup and recovery of virtualization infrastructure by using System Center Data Protection Manager.

Windows Server 2012 R2: Virtualization Infrastructure
Intermediate
4h 27m
(38)
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