Windows Server Virtualisation

Hi, My name is Piyush. I always wanted to understand the bits & core of MS cloud solutions & how different components integrate, for instance Hyper-V® and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, along with Windows fail-over clustering to provides High Availability & makes possible to manage your local data-center & automate the management task. Microsoft’s solution for virtualization is its Hyper-V technology, which is a core part of
Windows Server and is also available in the form of a free stand-alone hyper-visor.
The virtualization layer is only part of the solution. Management is just as critical, The next big step is Azure which is also powered by Hyper-V. This Blog series is dedicated to “Windows Server Virtualization” which is built on top of the familiar Microsoft technologies of Hyper-V® and System Center.

I have decided to divide this in three different sections & I am going to take reference from tech-net, MS blogs & you-tube channel, which I find appropriate in the respective of the content we are going to discuss here.

The latest Version of Hypervisor(Hyper-V) available is;

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter/Standard
Version: 6.3.9600 N/A Build 9600

Topics which I’ll  trying to cover is ;

1) Hyper-V
2) Windows fail-over clustering with Hyper-V
3) System Center Virtual Machine Manager. 

You can start with following post of mine which outlines the key Windows Virtualization components, Windows Virtualization components.
There is a free online course available form Microsoft Virtual Academy which is dedicated to server virtualization. “Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center”.

The same content can be accessed on Channel 9 “Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center”

Full course outline:

Mod 01: Evaluating the Environment for Virtualization

Mod 02: Installing and Configuring the Hyper-V Server Role

Mod 03: Creating and Managing Virtual Hard Disks, Virtual Machines, and Checkpoints

Mod 04: Creating and Configuring Virtual Machine Networks

Mod 05: Virtual Machine Movement and Hyper-V Replica

Mdd 06: Implementing Failover Clustering with Hyper-V

Mod 07: Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

Mod 08: Managing the Networking and Storage Infrastructure in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

Mod 09: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines by Using Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

Mod 10: Configuring and Managing the System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine

Mod 11: Managing Clouds in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

Mod 12: Managing Services in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager and App Controller

Mod 13: Protecting and Monitoring Virtualization Infrastructure

There is another Interesting TechNet Radio available on channel9 about building your Hybrid cloud , though they are discussing about the windows 2012 R2 Storage foundation but they cover the aspects off windows virtualization. 

Modules Outline

• (Part 1) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation
• (Part 2) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Hyper-V Enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2
• (Part 3) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Networking Enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2
• (Part 4) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Managing Cloud Foundations with Windows Server 2012 R2
• (Part 5) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Windows Server 2012 R2
• (Part 6) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Networking in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
• (Part 7) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Managing Storage with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
• (Part 8) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Build Your Compute Fabric with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
• (Part 9) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Getting Started with the Windows Azure Pack
• (Part 10) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Windows Azure Pack Remote Console Support
• (Part 11) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Service Management Automation
• (Part 12) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Windows Azure Pack and the Virtual Machine Role Gallery
• (Part 13) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Cross-Premises Virtual Networking with Site-to-Site VPN and ExpressRoute
• (Part 14) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Disaster Recovery to the Cloud with Azure Site Recovery
• (Part 15) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Getting Started with Automating the Hybrid Cloud using PowerShell
• (Part 16) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Migrating Applications to Microsoft Azure from Hyper-V, VMware, Amazon AWS & Physical Servers
• (Part 17) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - End-to-End IaaS Workload Provisioning in the Cloud with Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC
• (Part 18) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Automated Provisioning for Linux in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure
• (Part 19) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Monitoring and Alerting for Azure Workloads
• (Part 20) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Protecting Data with Encryption – Part 1
• (Part 21) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Protecting Data with Encryption – Part 2
• (Part 22) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Orchestrating a Hybrid Cloud with Chef and Azure
• (Part 23) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Azure Key Vault
• (Part 24) Getting Started with Azure Resource Manager
• (Part 26) Delegating Management in the Cloud with Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• (Part 27) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Nested Virtualization in Windows Server 2016