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Have your students gain the in-depth skills and hands on experience of Virtual Iron today! Rock Solid Technical Services brings 17 years of proven experience into the classroom to give students a solid understanding of Virtual Iron Enterprise.

Solutions. In class we give students a full set of tools to learn how to install, support, and troubleshoot a Virtual Iron environment.

Here’s some of what we cover:

Complete Configuration of Virtual Iron from ground up
  • Configuring Virtual Machines
  • Configuring a Virtual Hard Disk
  • Installing an Operating System
  • Configuring Virtual Networks
  • Increasing the Security of Virtual Machines and Files
 Here’s what the students have access to: Each student will setup their own Virtual Iron use a variety of tools to support the Microsoft Virtual Enterprise. This course offers students to build, support, and troubleshoot their own server. Below are the chapters we cover in class:
  • Module 1: Configuring Virtual Iron
  • Module Introduction 
  • Introduction to Virtual Server
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • What Is Virtual Server ?        
  • Uses for Virtual Server          
  • How Virtual Server Works    
  • Virtual Server File Types       
  • Explore a Virtual Machine     
  • Self Test         
Module 2: Installing Virtual Iron
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • System Requirements
  • Software Requirements         
  • Licensing Requirements         
  • Planning Considerations        
  • How to Install Virtual Server            
  • Self Test         
Module 3: Administering Virtual Iron  and Virtual Machines
  • Lesson Introduction               
Module 4: Configuring Virtual Server  Security
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Default Virtual Server  Security Configuration         
  • Virtual Server  Security Considerations        
  • Best Practices for Virtual Server  Security    
  • What Is Constrained Delegation?      
  • How to Configure Constrained Delegation   
  • Self Test         
Lab: Configure Virtual Server
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Scenario         
  • Exercise: Installing Virtual Server                 
  • Exercise: Configuring Search Paths   
  • Lab Review    
  • Module Summary      
Module 5: Configuring Virtual Machines
  • Module Introduction 
  • Creating a Virtual Machine
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Virtual Machine Requirements          
  • Multiple Virtual Machines     
  • How to Create a Virtual Machine      
  • Self Test         
Module 6: Configuring a Virtual Hard Disk
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • What Is a Virtual Hard Disk?
  • Types of Virtual Hard Disks  
  • How to Create a Virtual Hard Disk   
  • Self Test         
Module 7: Managing Virtual Hard Disks
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Self Test         
Module 8: Virtual Iron Resource Center
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Emulated Hardware   
  • Hardware Limitations
  • Component Types      
  • How to Add Components     
  • Self Test         
Module 9: Installing an Operating System
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Installation Methods  
  • How to Install an Operating System 
  • How to Copy and Move Virtual Hard Disks
  • How to Update the Virtual Machine Operating System       
  • How to Install Virtual Machine Additions    
  • Self Test         
Module 10: Configuring Virtual Networks
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • What Is a Virtual Network?  
  • How to Create a Virtual Network     
  • How to Configure Virtual Network Adapters          
  • Using Microsoft Loopback Adapter  
  • Self Test         
Module 11: Increasing the Security of Virtual Machines and Files
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Guidelines for Virtual Machine Security       
  • Increasing the Security of Virtual Server Files          
  • Increasing the Security of Virtual Machine Files      
  • Increasing the Security of Virtual Hard Disk Files   
  • Self Test         
Module 12: Optimizing Performance – Live Capacity
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Counters for Performance Monitoring           
  • Improving Virtual Server Performance          
  • CPU Capacity
  • How to Allocate CPU Resources to Virtual Machines         
  • How to Allocate Memory to a Virtual Machine        
  • Optimizing Disk Performance           
  • Self Test         
Lab: Configure a Virtual Machine
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Scenario         
  • Exercise: Allocating Resources to a Virtual Machine
  • Lab Review    
  • Module Summary      
  • Module 13: Virtual Iron Accelerated drivers
  • Module Introduction 
  • Self Test         
Module 14: Selecting a Migration Method
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Migration Methods    
  • Comparing Migration Methods         
  • System Requirements for Migration  
  • Self Test         
Module 15: Planning for Migration
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Migration Goals and Objectives        
  • Current Environment 
  • Migration Sequence   
  • Change and Release Management     
  • Service Operations     
  • Service Optimization 
  • Self Test         
Module 16: Virtual Iron JObs
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Self Test         
Module 17: Designing the Consolidated Virtual Server Environment
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Domain Infrastructure           
  • Server Size and Performance 
  • Virtual Machine Design         
  • Server Mapping          
  • Self Test         
Module 18: Live Migration
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Migration Requirements
  • Performing a Live Migration
  • Self Test         
Module 19: Virtual Iron Policies and Reports
  • Lesson Introduction   
  • Module Summary