By Aaron Nelson I blog at SCVMM This!

Why Virtualize Four components make virtualization very compelling. * (to me) Live Migration – If you need to switch physical machines you can. Snapshots / Reverts – Oops, that upgrade didn’t work. Let’s undo it. Self Service VM creation – Because waiting is bad Machine Cloning

Setting up on a local machine. Windows Server 2008 R2 Yet another VM that you want to test The Hypervisor My Work VM Windows 7 Ultimate Another VM that you want to test A VM that you want to test

Setting up on a corporate Domain Windows Server 2008 R2 SCVMM Server A VM that you want to test The Hypervisor Your Work VM Windows 7 Ultimate Another VM that you want to test Yet Another VM that you want to test

Setting up on a local machine w/ Domain. Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller & SCVMM A VM that you want to test The Hypervisor My Work VM Windows 7 Ultimate Another VM that you want to test

PowerShell Support! Take a look at last week’s blogs from The Scripting Guys at Microsoft: scripting-guy-march aspx scripting-guy-march aspx Virtual Machine Manager Cmdlets and Windows PowerShell Use VMM Cmdlets to Move Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Hosts? How Can I Create Virtual Machines? Notify a VMM Self-Service User That Their Virtual Machine Is About to Expire?

Installing & Setting Up Add the Hyper-V Server “Role” Add the Wireless Networking “Feature” External Networks for connecting out Internal Networks for containing the mayhem

What’s this Self-Service Business Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) allows a central repository ‘library’ for administrators. It also allows authorized users to snapshot, revert, and even spin up new VMs.

SCVMM You can use SCVMM to P2V existing machines Migrate Storage Duplicate VMs You can also V2V from VMware to Hyper-V – (for example)

Support? Virtualization Team from Microsoft New PowerShell commands allow the ability to automate the recreation /revert /new- creation of not just single machines but entire groups of machines.

Books Exam guides for the old exam that are pretty good Great Resources for doing this This Book Rocks!

Certifications The old one – MCTS The New one. Lots of SCVMM – MCTS – MCITP