Following the recent success of a well attended online training, my team has started enhancing the content and publishing it to the Microsoft Virtual Academy. The first course, Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – The Platform, is now available for online learning. The new course contains four modules:
- Virtualization Overview
- Differentiating Microsoft and VMware
- Hyper-V Deployment Options and Architecture
- High-Availability and Clustering
The course title may be a bit misleading. The content is certainly highly relevant not just for individuals with VMware background. From the course description:
Virtualization has become a key component of any modern datacenter, offering such advantages as easier deployment, resource pooling, server consolidation, application compatibility, high-availability, reduced costs and centralized management. The Platform course offers a deep-dive into the important technologies that contribute to the core virtualization infrastructure, and is the first track in the three track program covering Microsoft Virtualization. Learn about Microsoft’s virtualization offerings and strategy, datacenter planning, Hyper-V architecture, VM management, virtualized networking and storage, numerous other Hyper-V features, as well as advanced management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Understand high-availability and disaster recovery considerations to keep your VMs up and running using Windows Server Failover Clustering. Explore how Hyper-V is both different and similar to VMware virtualization through technical and terminology comparisons. By the end of this track you will have the tools you need to plan, design and deploy your virtualized datacenter or Private Cloud infrastructure.
More courses in the “… for the VMware Professional” series are coming soon. Among them are the following:
- Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – Management
- Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – VDI
