
Master Hyper-V virtualization through a structured nine-hour course covering installation, configuration, virtual machine management, networking, and storage, with high-availability clustering and hands-on exercises.
Explore virtualization concepts, types, and benefits, including server, application, network, desktop, and storage virtualization, and gain an overview of Hyper-V and its hypervisor role.
Explore Hyper-V overview: Microsoft's virtualization platform with bare metal and hosted hypervisors, and learn management via Hyper-V Manager, PowerShell, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, plus virtual switches and VHD storage.
Review the hypervisor layer between hardware and the operating system, recap virtualization types, and outline benefits, hypervisor types, management tools, virtual switches, and virtual disk formats.
Identify the system requirements for Hyper-V installation, including 64-bit SLAT, VM monitor mode extensions, DEP, and 4 GB RAM; understand host versus guest concepts and supported OS.
Install Hyper-V via Server Manager by adding the role and management tools, configure virtual switches and live migration, then verify the Hyper-V host with Hyper-V Manager.
Uninstall hyper-v via the gui, then reinstall it with PowerShell, including management tools and a reboot. Validate the installation with Get-WindowsFeature and Hyper-V status, and open Hyper-V Manager to confirm.
Explore Hyper-V manager to control hosts and virtual machines, manage checkpoints, virtual switches, and settings, and learn exporting, importing, and replication basics.
Distinguish host and guest concepts, enable Hyper-V on hardware, meet 64-bit with SLAT requirements, and install or uninstall the Hyper-V role via GUI or PowerShell.
Compare generation one and generation two Hyper-V virtual machines, detailing boot methods, legacy vs standard network adapters, VHD and ISO disk usage, secure boot, and guest OS compatibility.
Explore Hyper-V dynamic memory and its startup, minimum, maximum memory settings, memory buffer, and memory wait. Learn the advantages, disadvantages, and practical configuration considerations for efficient memory allocation.
Explore practical best practices for Hyper-V dynamic memory, including enabling integration services, monitoring memory usage, and tuning startup memory, memory buffer, and min/max limits for high performance.
Use the Hyper-V manager to create a new virtual machine, choose generation two, enable dynamic memory, attach a dynamically expanding VHD, and install Windows Server 2022 from an ISO.
Connect a host VM to another VM on an internal virtual switch, verify domain controller connectivity with ping, then configure a manual 192.168.1.x IP and join contoso.com.
Discover how to manage virtual machine operations, including saving and restoring VMs, pausing to conserve ram, and the differences between shut down and turn off, plus hard resets.
Learn how hyper-v snapshots capture a running virtual machine state as a checkpoint, enabling revert to a previous point in time and safe testing with creation, application, and deletion workflows.
Compare generation one and generation two Hyper-V VMs to choose OS support and boot method, including secure boot and boot volumes. Learn to manage memory, save and pause, and checkpoints.
Learn to create and attach virtual hard disks in Hyper-V, compare VHD and VHD set formats, and choose fixed, dynamic, or differencing disks for performance, space, and checkpoints.
Explore passthrough disks in Hyper-V, presenting a physical or SAN LUN as a VHD or VHDX, formatted as GPT and offline with dynamic, expanding storage, for single virtual machine access.
Learn to configure iSCSI storage on Hyper-V by installing an iSCSI target on the domain controller and connecting an initiator to present a virtual disk to multiple VMs.
Explore storage spaces theory and practice: pool disks into a storage pool, create virtual disks with simple, mirror, or parity resiliency, and provision thin or fixed. OS cannot boot.
Create a storage pool from iSCSI virtual disks, then configure virtual disks and volumes with storage spaces using the server manager wizard.
Learn to create and manage storage pools with PowerShell, including selecting physical disks, creating a pool, adding a virtual disk, and forming volumes with drive letters.
Review VHD, VHDX, and VHD set formats, storage spaces pools, the creation sequence from pools to virtual disks and volumes, and iSCSI target, initiator, connection basics including pass-through disks.
Implement high availability with failover clustering using two cluster nodes with shared storage and automatic failover. Learn about cluster shared volume and separate networks to minimize downtime.
Practice high availability with two-node failover clustering in a Hyper-V environment, configuring domain controller storage networks, iSCSI targets, and validating the cluster after installing failover clustering.
Validate the failover cluster by using Failover Cluster Manager to run configuration tests across servers and storage, ensuring network, storage, and hardware meet requirements before creating the cluster.
Recap of module five on failover clustering for high availability with two nodes. Review how to install, validate, and manage clusters, networks, and cluster shared volumes.
Create a two-node failover cluster with the Failover Cluster Manager, validate hardware, configure cluster name and IP, and attach a shared disk as the quorum (disk witness) for high availability.
Explore failover clustering components in Hyper-V, including cluster nodes, cluster groups, and shared storage with disk witness. Understand how cluster networks, votes, and heartbeats keep the cluster up.
Host a hyper-v virtual machine on a two-node failover cluster, configure cluster shared volumes, test automatic failover, live migration, and nested virtualization on both nodes.
Explore how to manage Hyper-V failover clusters and drain roles using PowerShell, including live migration, pausing and resuming cluster services, and moving virtual machines between nodes while monitoring resources.
Answer questions on Hyper-V replication, enabling replica servers, and diagnosing processor, memory, network, and storage bottlenecks using key performance counters.
Hyper-V replication enables disaster recovery by transferring a virtual machine from the primary to a replica host, with change tracking, initial copy, and planned failover options.
Monitor processor performance using the Performance Monitor, focusing on Hyper-V hypervisor logical processor, virtual processor, and root virtual processor counters to detect bottlenecks and guide resource scaling in nested virtualization.
Explore memory, network, and storage bottlenecks in Hyper-V performance monitoring using counters like available bytes, available memory, dynamic memory balancer, and network interface bytes per second.
Celebrate completing the mastering Hyper-V virtualization course and apply practical skills for managing and optimizing virtual environments, including failover, clustering, and virtual hard disks.
Become a Microsoft Hyper-V professional and learn one of employer's most requested skills nowadays!
This comprehensive course is designed so IT Professionals, System Administrators, Network Engineers, Virtualization Specialists, Cloud Administrators, Students... can learn HyperV from scratch to use it in a practical and professional way. Never mind if you have no experience in the topic, you will be equally capable of understanding everything and you will finish the course with total mastery of the subject.
After several years working in IT, we have realized that nowadays mastering Hyper-V for efficiently create and manage virtual machines, is very necessary in cloud environments. Knowing how to use this tool can give you many job opportunities and many economic benefits, especially in the world of Virtualization.
The big problem has always been the complexity to perfectly understand Hyper-V requires, since its absolute mastery is not easy. In this course we try to facilitate this entire learning and improvement process, so that you will be able to carry out and understand your own projects in a short time, thanks to the step-by-step, detailed and hands-on examples of every concept.
With more than 8 exclusive hours of video, this comprehensive course leaves no stone unturned! It includes both practical exercises and theoretical examples to master Hyper-V. The course will teach you how to consolidate multiple virtual machines (VMs) onto fewer physical servers in a practical way, from scratch, and step by step.
We will start with the setup and installation of Hyper V and the needed work environment on your computer, regardless of your operating system and computer.
Then, we'll cover a wide variety of topics, including:
Introduction to Hyper V and course dynamics
Understand virtualization concepts and the role of Hyper V in modern IT infrastructures
System requirements, installation methods (GUI and PowerShell), and initial setup for Hyper-V
VM creation, management, and configuration including Gen 1 and Gen 2 VMs
Configure virtual networks, VLANs, and integrate with physical networks for seamless connectivity
Manage virtual hard disks (VHDs), VHDX files, and implement storage spaces for efficient data management
Implement failover clustering, manage cluster resources, and ensure continuous service availability
Set up and manage VM replication for disaster recovery and business continuity
Monitor and optimize host and VM performance using performance counters and tools
Implement backup strategies and restore VMs to ensure data protection and quick recovery.
Secure Microsoft Hyper-V environments, manage access control, and ensure compliance with organizational policies.
Mastery and application of absolutely ALL the functionalities of Hyper-V
Quizzes, Practical exercises, complete projects and much more!
In other words, what we want is to contribute our grain of sand and teach you all those things that we would have liked to know in our beginnings and that nobody explained to us. In this way, you can learn to build and manage a wide variety of projects and make versatile and complete use of Microsoft Hyper V. And if that were not enough, you will get lifetime access to any class and we will be at your disposal to answer all the questions you want in the shortest possible time.
Learning Hyper-V has never been easier. What are you waiting to join?