Manage virtual machines

At a glance

Learn how to manage Hyper-V and guest virtual machines, including configuration, networking, replication, and high availability, and manage Windows Server virtual machines on Azure, including storage, capacity, availability, and network configuration.

Prerequisites

  • Experience administering Windows Server operating systems
  • Familiarity with Hyper-V and Azure virtual machines
  • Basic knowledge of PowerShell

Modules in this learning path

Learn about configuring and managing Hyper-V virtual machines in Windows Server.

Learn about virtualization and the Microsoft Hyper-V role with Windows Server. Learn about best practices for preparing Hyper-V hosts, in addition to Hyper-V networking features and implementing nested virtualization.

Learn about securing Hyper-V workloads in Windows Server, installing and configuring the Host Guardian Service (HGS), the attestation modes available with the HGS, and the creation and deployment of shielded virtual machines (VMs).

Learn about the core functionality, benefits, use cases, and implementation of highly available Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) in Windows Server.

You're able to describe Azure compute and storage in relation to Azure VMs, and deploy Azure VMs by using the Azure portal, Azure CLI, or templates.

Learn how to implement scaling for virtual machine scale sets and load-balanced VMs. Also learn how to implement Azure Site Recovery.

In this module, you'll learn how to manage Microsoft Azure virtual networks (VNets) and IP address configuration for Windows Server infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machines (VM)s.

In this module, you'll focus on how to improve the network security for Windows Server infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machines (VMs) and how to diagnose network security issues with those VMs.

You're able to use suitable tools and techniques to manage Windows IaaS VMs remotely. You'll also be able to restrict administrative connections to those VMs.