Free Microsoft Virtualization E-learning courses.

Posted by DH on 20th April 2009

Microsoft App-V

This online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Microsoft Application Virtualization. Topics covered in the clinic include:

  • Features and functionalities of Application Virtualization
  • Deployment and maintenance of Application Virtualization
  • Management of Application Virtualization by using the Application Virtualization Management console

 
Exploring Microsoft Application Virtualization

SCVMM 2008

This online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Topics covered in the clinic include:

  • Features and functionalities of VMM
  • Implementation and management of VMM
  • Management of VMM library
  • Management of hosts by using VMM
  • Implementation of virtual machine Self-Services

Exploring Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
 
Terminal Services in Server 2008

This online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008. Topics covered in the clinic include:

  • Implementation of Terminal Services
  • Working with Terminal Services RemoteApp, Terminal Services Web Access, Terminal Services Gateway, Terminal Services Session Broker, and Terminal Services Licensing

 
Exploring Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Hyper-V

This 2-hour online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Hyper-V in an IT environment. Topics covered in the course include:

  • Features of Hyper-V
  • Features of server consolidation
  • Hyper-V implementation
  • Creation of virtual machines
  • Dynamic datacenters
  • Clustering in virtual environments

 
Introducing Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008

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KB961983: Hotfix rollup package for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Posted by DH on 16th April 2009

List of issues that are fixed:

Issue 1

When you migrate VMware virtual machines, the resource pools that are associated with the virtual machines are changed.

Issue 2

Hyper-V virtual machines have a status of “unsupported cluster configuration” if a node in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster does not respond or has been restarted.

Issue 3

Differencing disks are lost when the following conditions are true:

  • You migrate a virtual machine from a Virtual Server host.
  • Multiple virtual machines share the same parent virtual hard disk file.

Issue 4

The agent status is not updated for Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster nodes.

Issue 5

Hyper-V virtual machines in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster have a status of “unsupported cluster configuration” if the cluster has a resource that has an MSCluster_Property_Resource_Cluster_Extension_XP_Type type. This resource type is typically used by storage replication software.

Issue 6

If you add a Virtual Center server by using an account that is a member of the Enterprise Admins group, you receive the following error message when the refresh host job runs:

Error (2951) Virtual Machine Manager cannot complete the VirtualCenter action on server servername.domainname.com because of the following error: Login failed due to a bad username or password. (InvalidLogin).

This hotfix rollup also includes the fixes that are documented in the following Virtual Machine Manager 2008 update:

959596  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959596/ ) Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 update to address physical to virtual (P2V) issues

This hotfix rollup is available on the following Microsoft Update Web site:

http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate

KB961983: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961983

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SCVMM 2008 Resources (cont. updated)

Posted by DH on 15th April 2009

Windows PowerShell Virtual Machine Manager Cmdlet Reference: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=643C96AC-AB5C-4470-BD03-F32981BC3013&displaylang=en

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