Study resources 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

NOTE: This is work in progress
Now its a long time made since I made any of these, but been busy
Here is a new exam from Microsoft which just released earlier this november, this is the first Microsoft exam which contains Azure technology from an “it-pro” perspetive and it also contains stuff from the latest 2012 R2 release.
The exam also goes trough stuff like Generation 2 VMs, Hyper-V recovery manager and so on.
You can read more about the exam here –> http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/exam.aspx?ID=74-409 This exam replaces the earlier MCTIP Server Virtualization for Windows Server 2008.

The exam will contain the following. So im addind study resources under each section.

Configure Hyper-V

• Create and configure virtual machine settings.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure dynamic memory; configure smart paging; configure Resource Metering; configure guest integration services; create and configure Generation 1 and 2 virtual machines; configure and use extended session mode, and configure RemoteFX

Dynamic Memory –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831766.aspx
Enable Resource Metering –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848481.aspx
Configure Guest Integration –> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/configure-integration-services-options-for-hyper-v-vms/
Create Gen 2 VMs –>http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/archive/2013/10/24/hyper-v-generation-2-virtual-machines-part-1.aspx
Extended session –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282274.aspx
Configure RemoteFX –> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16652.remotefx-vgpu-setup-and-configuration-guide-for-windows-server-2012.aspx

• Create and configure virtual machine storage.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Create VHDs and VHDx; configure differencing drives; modify VHDs; configure pass-through disks; manage checkpoints; implement a virtual Fibre Channel adapter; configure storage Quality of Service

Create VHD and VHDX –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848503.aspx
Create Differeing disks –> http://lyncdup.com/2012/06/creating-hyper-v-3-differencing-disks-in-server-2012-with-gui-and-powershell/
Pass-trough disks –> http://www.petri.co.il/convert-hyper-v-pass-through-disk-to-a-vhdx.htm
Implement virtual fibre channel –> http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/microsoft-hyper-v-articles/storage-management/first-look-hyperv-vs-virtual-fibre-channel-feature-part2.html
Configure Storage QoS –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282276.aspx
Modify VHD –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282284.aspx

• Create and configure virtual networks.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure Hyper-V virtual switches; optimize network performance; configure MAC addresses; configure network isolation; configure synthetic and legacy virtual network adapters; configure NIC teaming in virtual machines
    

Configure Hyper-V virtual Switches –> http://www.serverwatch.com/server-tutorials/harnessing-the-power-of-hyper-v-network-virtual-switches.html
Optimize network performance –> http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=15414
Configure network isolation –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj679878.aspx#bkmk_pvlan
Configure NIC teaming in virtual machines –> http://www.msserverpro.com/configuring-windows-server-2012-nic-teaming-to-a-hyper-v-virtual-machine/

Configure and Manage Virtual Machine High Availability

• Configure failover clustering with Hyper-V.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure shared storage; configure Quorum; configure cluster networking; restore single node or cluster configuration; implement Cluster Aware Updating; upgrade a cluster; configure and optimize clustered shared volumes; and configure clusters without network names

Configure shared storage –> http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2012/12/12/step-by-step-building-a-free-hyper-v-server-2012-cluster-part-1-of-2.aspx
Configure Quorum –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612870.aspx
Configure cluster networking –> http://www.msserverpro.com/implementing-windows-server-2012-hyper-v-failover-clustering/
Optimizate clustered shared volumes –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612868.aspx
Restore cluster configuration –>
Configure clusters without network names –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265970.aspx
Cluster aware updating –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831694.aspx

• Manage failover clustering roles.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure role-specific settings including continuously available shares; configure VM monitoring; configure failover and preference settings; and configure guest clustering

Configure VM monitoring –> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/04/18/10295158.aspx
Configure guest cluestering –>  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265980.aspx 

• Manage virtual machine movement.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Perform Live Migration; perform quick migration; perform storage migration; import, export, and copy VMs; configure Virtual Machine network health protection; configure drain on shutdown; manage Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migrations; and implement virtual machine migration between clouds

Live Migration –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831435.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj860434.aspx
Virtual Machine network health protection –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265972.aspx#BKMK_VMHealth
Virtual Machine Drain on shutdown –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265972.aspx#BKMK_VMDrain
Physical-to-Virtual –> http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2013/10/03/how-to-perform-a-p2v-in-a-scvmm-2012-r2-environment.aspx
V2V migration –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610672.aspx

Implement a Server Virtualization Infrastructure

• Implement virtualization hosts.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: implement delegation of virtualization environment (hosts, services, and virtual machines) including self-service capabilities; implement multi-host libraries including equivalent objects; implement host resource optimization; integrate third-party virtualization platforms; and deploying Hyper-V hosts to bare metal
    

Bare Metal –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610634.aspx
Host Resource optimization –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg675109.aspx
Selv-service capabilites –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610573.aspx
Integrate third-party virtualization –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610687.aspx

• Implement virtual machines.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Implement highly available VMs; implement guest resource optimization including shared VHDx; configure placement rules; create a Virtual Machine Manager template

• Implement virtualization networking.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure Virtual Machine Manager logical networks including virtual switch extensions and logical switches; configure IP address and MAC address settings across multiple Hyper-V hosts including network virtualization; configure virtual network optimization; plan and implement Windows Server Gateway; implement VLANs and pVLANs; plan and implement virtual machine networks; and implement converged networks
• Implement virtualization storage.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure Hyper-V host clustered storage; configure Hyper-V virtual machine storage including virtual Fibre Channel, Internet SCSI (iSCSI), and shared VHDx; plan for storage optimization; and plan and implement storage by using SMB 3.0 file shares
• Manage and maintain a server virtualization infrastructure.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Manage dynamic optimization and resource optimization; integrate Operations Manager with System Center Virtual Machine Manager and System Center Service Manager; update virtual machine images in libraries; implement backup and recovery of a virtualization infrastructure by using System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

Monitor and Maintain a Server Virtualization Infrastructure

• Plan and implement a monitoring strategy.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: planning considerations including monitoring servers using Audit Collection Services (ACS) and System Center Global Service Monitor, performance monitoring, application monitoring, centralized monitoring, and centralized reporting; implement and optimize System Center 2012 Operations Manager management packs; and plan for monitoring Active Directory
• Plan and implement a business continuity and disaster recovery solution.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan a backup and recovery strategy; planning considerations including Active Directory domain and forest recovery, Hyper-V replica including using Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager, domain controller restore and cloning, and Active Directory object and container restore using authoritative restore and Recycle Bin; and plan for and implement backup and recovery by using System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)