Exam 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/exam.aspx?id=74-409

More on NVGRE: Hyper-V Network Virtualization technical details
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134174.aspx
Hyper-V Network Virtualization Gateway Architectural Guidehttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj618319.aspx

Why is the “Hyper-V Replica Broker” required?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2012/03/27/why-is-the-quot-hyper-v-replica-broker-quot-required.aspx?Redirected=true
Hyper-V Virtual NUMA Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282282.aspx

How to batch create virtual machines in Windows Server 2012(PowerShell)
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-batch-create-9efd1811

Using Hyper-V with a Wireless Network Adapter
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/01/09/using-hyper-v-with-a-wireless-network-adapter.aspx

System Requirements: VMM Database

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610574.aspx

Replication with Hyper-V Replica – Part I – Replication Considerations Made Easy Step-By-Step
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tommypatterson/archive/2012/10/10/replication-with-hyper-v-replica-part-i-replication-considerations-made-easy-step-by-step.aspx

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/11/03/windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx

VMware or Microsoft? Comparing vSphere 5.5 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V At-A-Glance
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/10/15/vmware-or-microsoft-comparing-vsphere-5-5-and-windows-server-2012-r2-at-a-glance.aspx#.UpSYuZBgWM8

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/10/15/vmware-or-microsoft-comparing-vsphere-5-5-and-windows-server-2012-r2-at-a-glance.aspx

Study resources 74-409

Study resources 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center


Test Lab Guides
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1262.test-lab-guides.aspx

Windows Server 2012 Licensing In Detail
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13042

Windows Server 2012 Virtualisation Licensing Scenarios
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13090

What’s New in Hyper-V for Windows Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282278.aspx

Download Microsoft System Center 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205295

Download Windows Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205286.aspx

Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205299.aspx

Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205299.aspx

Download Windows Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205286.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home

How to perform a P2V in a SCVMM 2012 R2 environment
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2013/10/03/how-to-perform-a-p2v-in-a-scvmm-2012-r2-environment.aspx

Why you want to be using VHDX in Hyper-V whenever possible and why it’s important to know your baselines
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/09/09/why-you-want-to-be-using-vhdx-in-hyper-v-whenever-possible-and-why-it-s-important-to-know-your-baselines.aspx

Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Dynamic Quorum
http://blogs.technet.com/b/aevalshah/archive/2012/08/21/windows-server-2012-failover-clustering-dynamic-quorum.aspx

Cluster Resource Anti-Affinity
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=10716

TechNet Virtual Labs
https://vlabs.holsystems.com/vlabs/technet?eng=VLabs&auth=none&src=microsoft.holsystems.com&altadd=true&labid=10843

Microsoft Virtual Academy
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/#?fbid=VyhOfRqR_Tz

How to perform a P2V in a SCVMM 2012 R2 environment
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2013/10/03/how-to-perform-a-p2v-in-a-scvmm-2012-r2-environment.aspx

Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center and Windows Azure
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/hybridcloud

How to add your virtualization gateways to SCVMM 2012 R2
http://kristiannese.blogspot.nl/2013/06/how-to-add-your-virtualization-gateways.html

What’s New in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn283323.aspx

Application Management – Service Models Web Platform Installer Gallery
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/10/25/application-management-service-models-web-platform-installer-gallery.aspx

Disk2vhd v1.64
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

System Center 2012 SP1 Explained: Managing Hybrid Cloud with App Controller – See more at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/archive/2013/04/30/system-center-2012-sp1-explained-managing-hybrid-cloud-with-app-controller.aspx#sthash.8QrkLguC.dpuf
http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/archive/2013/04/30/system-center-2012-sp1-explained-managing-hybrid-cloud-with-app-controller.aspx

Network Interface Card (NIC) Teaming
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh997031.aspx

Why R2? Software Defined Networking with Hyper-V Network Virtualization
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/11/13/why-r2-software-defined-networking-with-hyper-v-network-virtualization.aspx#.UpSP-5BgWM8

Layer 1 or Layer 2 Hypervisor? A common misconception of Hyper-V, and a brief explanation of the Parent Partition

Layer 1 or Layer 2 Hypervisor? A common misconception of Hyper-V, and a brief explanation of the Parent Partition

MAT (Powered by Project Shift)
http://migrate.azurewebsites.net/?loc=zTS2z&prod=zWSz&tech=zvirtz&prog=zOTprogz&type=zOTtypez&media=zVidz&country=zUSz

Hyper-V Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/pl-PL/library/hh831531.aspx

Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592

System Center 2012 R2 VHDs Download
http://cloudadministrator.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/system-center-2012-r2-vhds-download/

Cmdlet Reference for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh801697.aspx

Can your hardware run Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows 8 and Server 2012?
http://www.fishbrains.com/2012/09/10/can-your-hardware-run-hyper-v-3-0-in-windows-8-and-server-2012/

Get Microsoft Silverlight
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx

Understanding High-End Video Performance Issues with Hyper-V
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/11/16/understanding-high-end-video-performance-issues-with-hyper-v.aspx

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh967435.aspx

http://www.ironnetworks.com/
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit for Hyper-V
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd537570

Ben Armstrong’s Virtualization Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/

Why Hyper-V? (pdf document)
http://aka.ms/WhyHyper-V

Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Jump Start
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/microsoft-virtualization-for-vmware-professionals-jump-start#?fbid=VyhOfRqR_Tz

System Requirements: VMM Management Server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610562.aspx

Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 (word document)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/0/B/00BE76AF-D340-4759-8ECD-C80BC53B6231/performance-tuning-guidelines-windows-server-2012.docx

Virtual Machine Connection – Enhanced Session Mode Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282274.aspx

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6416

Hyper-V generation 2 virtual machines – part 1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/archive/2013/10/24/hyper-v-generation-2-virtual-machines-part-1.aspx

Virtual Machine Connection – Enhanced Session Mode Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282274.aspx

Build and Restore Snapshots in Hyper-V with Windows PowerShell
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/06/07/build-and-restore-snapshots-in-hyper-v-with-windows-powershell.aspx

Why R2? Step-by-Step: Automated Tiered Storage with Windows Server 2012 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/10/23/step-by-step-build-an-automated-storage-tiers-lab-with-windows-server-2012-r2-and-powershell.aspx#.UpR5XJBgWM8

Step-by-step for Storage Spaces Tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2013/08/28/step-by-step-for-storage-spaces-tiering-in-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx

Support Matrix for DPM Protection
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj860400.aspx

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/