Course 10981A: Infrastructure Provisioning with System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Overview

This official Microsoft course (10981) will teach you to install and configure System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager and manage enterprise datacenter resources. This course is part two in a series of two courses that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to implement an enterprise virtualization solution. This course will cover implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 environment using System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. This course primarily covers the advanced and enterprise-level technologies and solutions available through Microsoft virtualization, networking and storage.

Target Audience:

• Experienced IT professionals who support medium to large enterprises who are responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining a virtualization infrastructure.
• Those who will determine which virtualization product to implement in their data centers.

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Course Prerequisites

• An understanding of virtualization concepts and working knowledge of Microsoft Hyper-V
• An understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts and working knowledge of Microsoft networking
• An understanding of different storage technologies and concepts and working knowledge of Microsoft storage technologies and solutions
• Working knowledge of Windows PowerShell

After completion of this course, you will learn how to :

• Update the VMM environment and underlying Fabric infrastructure including considerations for other System Center components.
• Configure advanced networking features in VMM such as Uplink Port Profiles and Virtual Port Profiles.
• Configure Storage in VMM
• Configure and manage the Library in VMM
• Prepare the Windows operating system for deployment in VMM
• Configure and use Virtual Machine Templates and Service Templates in VMM
• How VMM integrates with other System Center components such as Operations Manager and Orchestrator
• How to configure Azure Site Recovery to replicate and recover virtual machines.