Course 10939: High Availability, Monitoring, and Reporting

Introduction One benefit of implementing server virtualization is the opportunity to provide higher availability, both for applications or services that have built-in, high-availability functionality, and for applications or services that do not provide high availability in any other way. With the Windows® Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ technology and Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (VMM 2008 R2), you can configure high availability by using several different options. This course briefly describes the options available for enabling high availability, and then focuses on how you can provide high availability for virtual machines by implementing failover clustering. VMM also integrates with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (Operations Manager 2007) to provide a complete monitoring and optimization solution. By integrating Operations Manager 2007 with VMM, you can use the reporting capabilities in Operations Manager 2007 to create reports in VMM. Additionally, VMM provides the Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) feature for helping you manage the virtual environment. This course also describes how to configure monitoring and reporting for a virtualized environment. This course is a subset of the content offered in the Microsoft Learning Collection 10215A: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Server Virtualization, and it can help prepare learners for the Microsoft Learning certification exam 70-659 TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization. Objectives At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• In this course, you will implement high availability for virtual machines by using failover clustering. as well as configure monitoring and reporting for a virtualized environment.

Modules & Lessons Implementing High Availability for Server Virtualization Lesson Introduction Overview of Failover Clustering Implementing Failover Clustering with Hyper-V Implementing High Availability with VMM 2008 R2 Lesson Follow Up Monitoring and Reporting Virtualization Lesson Introduction Monitoring Jobs in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Integrating Operations Manager 2007 with VMM 2008 R2 Configuring Performance and Resource Optimization Lesson Follow Up System Requirements To view this course, you need:

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