Before attending this course, students must have:An understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts.An understanding of different storage technologies and concepts.The ability to work in a team/virtual team.An understanding of Windows PowerShell.

After completing this course, students will be able to:Evaluate an organization’s virtualization requirements and plan for server virtualization.Install and configure the Hyper-V server role.Create virtual machines, create and manage virtual hard disks and work with snapshots.Create and configure virtual machine networks in a Hyper-V environment.Implement virtual machine movement and Hyper-V Replica.Provide high availability for Hyper-V environment by implementing failover clustering.Manage virtual environment by using System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.Manage networking and storage infrastructure in Virtual Machine Manager.Configure and manage Virtual Machine Manager library and library objects.Create and manage virtual machines by using Virtual Machine Manager.Create and manage clouds by using System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.Create and manage services in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.Protect virtualization infrastructure by using Windows Server Backup and Data Protection Manager.