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Hyper-V
View All CoursesIn this hands-on course, you’ll be learning all about Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2, live migration, and snapshots. This course will teach you to quickly provision new servers, create test environments, and configure virtualized physical servers. This course is ideal for junior or senior systems administrators, or anyone with Active Directory experience.
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- Introduction
- About Your Instructor and Train Signal
- What's Covered in this Course
- Hardware Requirements
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- Introduction
- Virtualization 101
- When Virtualization is a Good Idea
- What Hyper-V Really Is
- Hyper-V's Many Flavors
- Hardware Requirements
- VM's Licensing
- Globomantic's Scenario
- Getting Hyper-V Installed
- Terminology
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Before We Begin
- Integration Services
- Creating a New Virtual Machine (VM)
- Installing OS on VM
- Installing Integration Services
- Using VM Toolbar
- Processor Stuff
- RAM Stuff
- Disk Stuff
- Adding Processor, RAM, & SCSI Drive to Our VM
- Creating a Snapshot
- Terminology
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What Do You Need for a Virtual Network?
- The 3 Kinds of Virtual Networks
- Nifty Options for Your Internal VN
- How Many Networks Can You Have?
- Globomantics Scenario
- Creating a Private Network
- Creating a Virtual Machine
- Changing Network Connection on VM
- Installing Integration Services
- Checking Network Connectivity
- Can Our Machines Talk to Each Other?
- Renaming Our Virtual Machines
- Terminology
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Types of Virtual Disks
- Differencing Disks
- Globomantics Scenario
- Creating VM Using Differencing Disk
- Deleting Differencing Disk
- What are Snapshots?
- Using Snapshots
- Terminology
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Quick Review of WDS
- WDS in 3 Easy Steps
- Globomantics Scenario
- Creating a WDS VM Machine
- Configuring WDS
- Creating Capture Image
- Utilizing WDS to Install Server 2008
- Capturing OS
- Configuring Stripped WebServer
- Moving Image to Hyper-V Server
- Adding an Image to Installation Folder
- Reconstituting Web Server as Hyper-V Machine
- Finishing Up New Web Server Configuration
- Terminology
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Why This Is a Good Idea
- Exporting VM
- Importing VM
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Hyper-V Access From Vista
- Remote Access for Hyper-V
- Globomantics Scenario
- Using HVRemote
- Changes Made by HVRemote Script
- Firewall Settings
- Checking Our Web Developer Account Access
- Restricting Access with HVRemote
- Additional Thoughts on Hyper-V Security
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Plan
- Deploying Virtual Domain Controller
- Deploying Virtual File Server
- Setting Up Domain Controller and File Server
- Changing Administrative Logon Credentials
- Joining File Server to the New Domain
- Installing DHCP
- Joining DWS Server to V-Globomantics Network
- Creating Virtual Web Server
- Creating a Virtual Client Machine
- Completing Web Server and Vista Installations
- Testing and Troubleshooting the Connectivity
- Creating WebDeveloper Account
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Server 2008 R2 Enhancements
- Upgrading Server 2008 to R2
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Dynamic Storage - Easy Swapping of VHD's on SCSI
- Migration Options
- Core Parking
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Primer on Failover Clustering
- Science Time - Building Failover Cluster
- Setting Up for Hyper-V Clustering
- Attaching iSCSI Storage
- Validating Configuration
- Creating a Cluster
- Configuring Cluster Quorum Settings
- Creating Highly Available Virtual Machine
- Live and Quick Migration
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Why Would You Want to Do SQL VM?
- Multiple Instances vs. Virtualization
- Hardware Requirements
- Our Plan
- Creating a New Virtual Machine
- Creating New External Virtual Network
- Installing SQL Server
- Opening Management Studio
- What We Covered
Instructor
Benjamin Culbertson
Serving a two-year tour of duty as an inner city high school teacher at Roberto Clemente High School, he motivated at-risk students to achieve excellence and learned how to teach high level concepts in a rubber-meets-the-road fashion.
His versatility and high energy instructional style will not only educate you but also make you laugh along the way. He is also the Technical Editor and Webmaster of ReliefJournal.com, a quarterly literary journal, and the Editor-In-Chief for Coach's Midnight Diner, an annual genre anthology.
