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- What is virtualization (in general)?
- What are the 4 major virtualization areas?
- Describe the major benefits of Server Virtualization.
- What is the difference between hosted virtualization and hypervisor-based virtualization?
- What's the idea behind Type 1 and Type 2 methods of virtualization?
- Talk briefly about the history of Microsoft-based virtualization products.
- What is Hyper-V?
- Name a few competitive products that can be compared (even roughly) with Hyper-V.
- What are the major differences between Hyper-V RTM and Hyper-V R2? Name some of the major differences.
- What are the hardware requirements for Hyper-V?
- How many logical CPUs does Hyper-V R2 support?
- How much RAM can be assigned to VMs in Hyper-V R2?
- What's Microsoft Hyper-V Server?
- Describe the process of installing Hyper-V from scratch on a brand new Dell R710 machine.
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- What types of network connections does Hyper-V allow?
- When building a new Hyper-V host, what would your networking considerations be?
- Why is it important to leave one physical NIC for the host OS?
- Talk about MAC address ranges and potential issues with Hyper-V RTM. How was this solved in R2?
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- What are the different virtual disk options in Hyper-V?
- When considering performance, what type 0f virtual disk would you use?
- What are pass-through disks?
- Talk about hot adding and hot removing disks in Hyper-V R2.
- What are VM snapshots?
- Talk about performance considerations and other "issues" with VM snapshots.
- What's the difference between applying, deleting and reverting to snapshots?
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- Describe the process of creating a new VM from scratch.
- Where does Hyper-V place the files and settings for VMs, by default? How do you change that?
- What are synthetic drivers?
- What are emulated drivers?
- When creating a new VM that'll run Windows Server 2008, what type of NIC would you create?
- Following the previous question, what type of NIC would you create for a WIN PE-based VM? Why?
- Migrating a Windows Server 2003 VM from Virtual Server 2005, what type of NIC would you need to use?
- Creating a new VM, what type of disk controller would you need to use for the VM's system disk?
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- What are Integration Components?
- Talk about certain issues with hosting DCs virtually.
- What are "Enlightened Partitions"?
- What OSs are supported on Hyper-V?
- What types of backups can you use for VMs?
- Talk about performing backups of VMs and VSS.
- How do you export a VM? Mention a couple of methods.
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- Talk about domain membership considerations for Hyper-V hosts.
- Where can you manage Hyper-V hosts from?
- What is RSAT?
- How would you manage Hyper-V from a Windows 7-based machine?
- Talk about permission issues in regards of managing Hyper-V hosts.
- What is AZMAN?
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- Talk about the licensing benefits of Hyper-V under the various editions of Windows Server 2008.
- Wanting to create a failover cluster on 2 Hyper-V nodes in Windows
Server 2008 R2, what edition of Windows would you prefer? Why?
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- Talk about Hyper-V-based high availability.
- What's Quick Migration?
- What's Live Migration?
- Talk about downtime issues with Quick Migration vs. Live Migration.
- Talk about the steps needed to be taken in order to setup a Live Migration setup.
- What is CSV?
- Can you create a Live Migration setup without CSV? Explain.
- Mention a few methods for initiating a Live Migration movement of VMs between one host and another.
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- How do you monitor the performance of your VMs?
- How do you know how much memory a specific VM uses?
- How do you know what's the I/O used on a Hyper-V host?
- How do you monitor the bandwidth used by a specific VM?
- Talk about SCVMM, SCOM, SCCM and Hyper-V.
- Talk about WMI and Hyper-V.
