This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design a complex data center and desktop architecture using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), System Center Suite, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Application Virtualization 4.6 (APP-V), as well as supporting applications and utilities. The information included in this class will provide students with a solid baseline of technology solutions, architecture considerations, and management requirements that can be integrated to build a successful virtualization infrastructure.

• After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Evaluate benefits of implementing virtualization technologies
• Understand how virtualization technology can be used to create more flexible and dynamic data center and desktop infrastructures
• Understand the selection process for local desktop or central VDI environments
• Design virtualization solutions for datacenter and desktop infrastructures
• Plan virtualization services such as Hyper-V, RDS,MED-V, and APP-V
• Integrate System Center Suite into a virtualization infrastructure to provide an end-to-end management strategy
• Understand and plan virtual machine conversion and deployment options
• Plan enterprise storage solutions to support virtualization infrastructures
• Design high-availability virtualization solutions
• Plan an enterprise backup and recovery strategy
   

This course is intended for Infrastructure Architects and Virtualization Specialists who are responsible for designing, deploying, and managing one or more data center or desktop virtualization environments.
 

Module 1: Planning a Virtualization Strategy
Module 2: Designing a Virtualization Platform Infrastructure and High-Availability Strategy
Module 3: Designing a Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure
Module 4: Designing an Application Virtualization Infrastructure
Module 5: Designing a Virtualization Infrastructure Management Strategy

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 knowledge and experience
• Fundamental knowledge of Hyper-V
• Fundamental knowledge of Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
• Fundamental knowledge of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
• Fundamental knowledge of Application Virtualization (APP-V)
• Fundamental knowledge of System Center products including System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and System Center Data Protection Manager