In this seminar, Rand Morimoto, author of dozens of books on Microsoft technologies, shares best practices on Windows server virtualization built-in to Windows Server 2008, called Hyper-V.  Server virtualization has gone from being a solution to build out test images to one where organizations are building out their entire datacenters on virtual guest sessions.  It only makes sense when virtual sessions have proven to be easy to build, easy to manage, reliable in operations, and quick to failover for recovery!

In this session, Rand discusses (and demonstrates):

 *  Windows 2008 Hyper-V: what it is, how it works

 *  How Windows 2008 Hyper-V compares to VMWare

 *  Best practices at creating a virtualized server environment to consolidate physical systems

 *  Strategies on using server virtualization to consolidate physical sites

 *  How Hyper-V compares with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, and where Hyper-V greatly expands on the capabilities of Windows Virtualization beyond VS/2005 features and functions

 *  Standard practices for choosing which technology for high availability and disaster recovery (SAN snapshots?, server clustering?, virtual server replication?, application data replication?, etc)

 *  How System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) provides added capabilities for server to server failover

 *  Utilizing Hyper-V for remote site disaster recovery and how it compares with other DR solutions commonly used today

 *  Converting physical servers and virtual images into Hyper-V guest images

 *  Using Hyper-V to host non-Windows images like Linux

 *  Mounting VMWare images on a Hyper-V host server

 *  Etc, etc, etc

Rand’s company, Convergent Computing has been on the early adopter programs for every major Microsoft product shipped in the past couple decades, and has helped some of the largest organizations in the world plan and implement the technologies covered in this seminar.  This seminar is based on tips, tricks, and best practices at leveraging these technologies in a manner that helps organizations lower costs of IT operations, improve disaster recovery capabilities, and enable better supportability of Microsoft and non-Microsoft virtual guest sessions.

You should download and print the slide deck that will be used throughout this session

Video #1 (1-hr 21-min): What is Hyper-V, How it Compares with other Virtualization Technologies, Leveraging Built-in Technologies to Applications than Virtualization tools

Video #2 (31-min): Planning to Virtualize, Deploying a Virtual Environment, Leveraging Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Tools

Convergent Computing is a technology consulting firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps organizations plan, implement, and support their networking environments. If your organization can use assistance implementing, supporting, or just getting better use of your Windows Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, or other network or application technologies, please contact our organization for assistance mailto:sales@cco.com