I had it up and running in a couple of hours with my first VM running in less than 30 minutes after that. The VM speed was due to my having a couple of VM's built in Virtual Server I could use. That was without a lot of documentation of Hyper-V. This was in late June early July 2008. There is a lot more documentation available now but Hyper-V is very easy and just doing the reading and playing a bit will teach you what you need. The SCVMM would in my opinion need/desire training as would SCCM and SCOM.
I would not recommend taking a Virtual Server machine and just using it in Hyper-V even though you can. I liked the ease of building machines in Hyper-V and just keeping a couple of "base" machines in storage so I could do fast builds. Jon On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Stephen Wimberly <[email protected]>wrote: > You bring good points and I should have mentioned that due to our > Microsoft Licensing agreement the cost difference between Hyper-V and > VMWare makes Hyper-V a 'no brainer'. To that end we already use SCCM > and have a license for SCVMM but have not deployed it yet. (It was > part of the System Center package we bought.) > > SO: no training on Hyper-V? Of course we are looking into SCVMM > training as well. > > Instead of instructor lead training like New Horizons I prefer CBT > based training which is often more thorough and even "replayable". > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Depending on which VM manager product you are going with will decide if > you > > really need training or not. The Microsoft Hyper-V product by itself > needs > > little training but the VMWare will cost you more in time and training. > If > > you are going with some of the Microsoft add on stuff like SCCM/SCVMM > etc. > > then you would be best to get training on their product as well. > MyITForum > > would be a good place to start for the System Center line of product and > > asking about training. I would think that VMWare has forums that could > > direct you to semi-local training on their product. > > > > Jon > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stephen Wimberly <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> What training would you consider 'recommended' for a server admin > >> going into virtual servers for the first time? We have used Microsoft > >> Virtual Server 2005 before, but did not care for the setup. We are > >> currently looking at a recommendation from Dell which covers two > >> server host boxes, one storage box and one management switch. I > >> currently manage about 20 physical servers, so what I would need would > >> be specific to the differences to virtual servers rather than physical > >> servers. All I need to do is add a line item for "training costs" and > >> go for funding options! How much do you think training for virtual > >> environments could be worth? > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
