Hi, I was the Learning Product Planner in Microsoft Learning who worked on the 10215A: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Server Virtualization course.
10215A released in October 2010 and in that short period time it has become one of our most popular courses in terms of positive feedback submitted via MTM. This five day server virtualization course covers a lot of technologies and functionality. At a high level it covers Hyper-V, SCVMM 2008 R2, Integration with SCOM 2008 R2, DPM 2007 Sp1 as well as RDS. So it’s a broad set of technologies and students should come away from it with a good understanding of what the options and pitfalls are when considering virtualizing a server infrastructure. As well as this, it also prepares students for the 70-659: TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization exam.
The lab experience for students was one of the key drivers when designing the course and as such the requirements for the labs are above the standard spec, namely a single host running Windows server 2008 RTM. In this course the Instructor and each student require two host machines running Windows Server 2008 R2. Labs covering High Availability, in Module 9 for example, will not be able to be completed unless this is available, but this "above standard" spec does provide an excellent and real world lab experience. Definitely to be recommended to students!
I will return to post additional bogs on the actual content covered in the course both this week and next and will dig a bit deeper into the labs to try explain why decisions were made and why some items were covered as they are.
If there are any specific questions around the labs or the course feel free to post them here and I'll try my best to answer!
Thanks,
Eamonn,
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I will probably teach the course in upcoming weeks, and I wonder is it possible to customize the course instead of two host machine per student to provide one and to use shared hosts for module 9 for Live migration.
Regards Marjan
Eamonn, I am having a number of issues with various things that don't work in the labs from Lab 9 forward in 10215. Is it possible to pick your brain on a few things?