By Aaron Nelson

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SCVMM This!

Why Virtualize• Four components make virtualization very

compelling. *(to me)

• Live Migration– If you need to switch physical machines you can.

• Snapshots / Reverts– Oops, that upgrade didn’t work. Let’s undo it.

• Self Service VM creation– Because waiting is bad

• Machine Cloning

Using Just Hyper-V You Can Do This• Setting up on a local machine.

Windows Server 2008 R2

Yet another VM that you want to

test

The Hypervisor

My Work VMWindows 7 Ultimate

Another VM that you want

to test

A VM that you want to test

A Generic SCVMM Scenario• Setting up on a corporate Domain

Windows Server 2008 R2

SCVMM Server

A VM that you want to test

The Hypervisor

Your Work VMWindows 7 Ultimate

Another VM that you want

to test

Yet Another VM that you want

to test

Only Make it This Hard if You Want to• Setting up on a local machine w/ Domain.

Windows Server 2008 R2

Domain Controller &

SCVMM

A VM that you want to test

The Hypervisor

My Work VMWindows 7 Ultimate

Another VM that you want

to test

My Laptop SCVMM Setup

PowerShell Support! • Take a look at last week’s blogs from

The Scripting Guys at Microsoft: • http://

blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/03/29/hey-scripting-guy-march-29-2010.aspx

• Virtual Machine Manager Cmdlets and Windows PowerShell• Use VMM Cmdlets to Move Virtual Machines and Virtual

Machine Hosts?• How Can I Create Virtual Machines?• Notify a VMM Self-Service User That Their Virtual Machine Is

About to Expire?

Installing & Setting Up• Add the Hyper-V Server “Role”

• Add the Wireless Networking “Feature”

• External Networks for connecting out

• Internal Networks for containing the mayhem

What’s this Self-Service Business

• Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) allows a central repository ‘library’ for administrators.

• It also allows authorized users to snapshot, revert, and even spin up new VMs.

SCVMM

• You can use SCVMM to P2V existing machines

• Migrate Storage

• Duplicate VMs

• You can also V2V from VMware to Hyper-V– (for example)

Support?

• Virtualization Team from Microsoft

• New PowerShell commands allow the ability to automate the recreation /revert /new-creation of not just single machines but entire groups of machines.

BooksExam guides for the old exam that are pretty good

Great Resources for doing this• This Book Rocks!

Certifications

• 70-652 The old one– MCTS

• 70-659 The New one. Lots of SCVMM– MCTS

• 70-693– MCITP