Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V: Monitoring and Managing Environments

Overview/Description
As a system administrator, it is important to be able to monitor and manage the virtual environments. The System Center family of products can be used to manage and monitor medium- to large-scale Windows client and server products, including virtualized environments. System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) can monitor hosts and VMs against a set of performance metrics and raised issues and actions in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) in the form of Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) tips. PRO is a feature of System Center VMM which monitors and optimizes application performance in a virtualized environment. PRO links SCOM 2007 alerts with remedial actions in VMM. This course covers the mechanisms available to resource pool administrators to delegate control of their Hyper-V resources based upon roles within their organizations.

Target Audience
The Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization with Hyper-V learning path is developed for system administrators who want to learn how to implement and manage Microsoft’s server virtualization technologies on their network. Individuals researching, implementing, or are currently responsible for virtualization. Anyone wishing to obtain the 70-659 TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization exam which is one of the qualifying exams for the MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Virtualization Configuration certification. Individuals with familiarity with; Windows networking, especially Active Directory Directory Services, modern storage technologies such as SAN, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, and Direct Attached Storage (DAS), and with Windows Server 2008 failover clustering.

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V: Monitoring and Managing Environments

recognize how to integrate SCOM with VMM

identify the benefits of implementing performance and resource optimization

recognize how SCOM 2007 R2 is used to monitor and manage environments

identify the characteristics of Authorization Manager

assign a role definition to a group of users

describe how SCVMM implements role-based delegation