Module 1: Evaluating the Environment for Virtualization Lab: Evaluating the Environment for Virtualization Exercise 1: Selecting the Appropriate Virtualization Method > Task 1: Design a virtualization solution to resolve a remote worker application scenario ‘A Datum has just passed a remote worker policy that allows up to an additional 50 people to work remotely. Until now, only a few designated on-call T staff were approved to work remotely, and they all have fixed lines and secure virtual private networks (VPN), Remote workers will be required to use their own devices, although they should run the company's applications, and ideally keep data such as documents, reports, and spreadsheets within the company network. 1. Which vitualization technology can assist with the remote worker requirements? ‘Answer: Presentation virtualization: Remote Desktop Services is the best candidate for tis solution 2. What are three of the components required to deliver the remote worker solution? ‘Answer: Any three of the following components can deliver a remote worker solution. © Remote Desktop Session Broker Remote Desktop Gateway © Remote Desktop Session Host © Remote Desktop Licensing Manager 3. Approximately four months after A, Datum has gone live with the remote worker solution, users begin to complain they cannot access the company systems from home, What could be a likely problem? Answer: The problem could be any (or a combination) of the following: © The evaluation licenses have expired, © Fither no licenses or the wrong or licenses are configured on the Remote Desktop Licensing Manager. © The Remote Desktop Session Host servers are not configured, of are not able to communicate with the Remote Desktop license server, 4. When designing the virtualization solution, you must be able to accommodate a physical server failure by providing reasonable fast recovery. What are the options to achieve a fast recovery? Answer: Option 1 You can build more than one Remote Desktop Session Host server, and incoming users will be load- balanced by the session broker, During a hardware failure, some of the users will lose their remote session, but when they attempt to connect again they will be directed to working servers.1-2 _fvahting the Ervonnent for Vituaeaton Option 2 You can build a virtual server that runs Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop. You can then place this server on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host cluster, which would permit hardware failure. ‘While users will lose their remote session when the server fails, when reconnecting they should be able to use the virtual machine that has started on another cluster node > Task 2: Design a solution to for a Microsoft Office upgrade A. Datum urgently needs to upgrade from Microsoft Office 2007 to Office 2010 for all employees. However, the remote workers, some senior managers, and most the IT staff should be piloting Office 2013 at the same time, Remote workers will need to have access to both Office 2010 and Office 2023, Providing separate computers is not an option, and you have heard about application compatibility issues, between different versions of Microsoft Office. 1. Which virtualization technology could help you with these requirements? Answer: Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Application Virtualization (App-V) can help deliver the required solution, 2. You create packages for the following products © Microsoft Office 2010 o Office 2013, © Windows 7 Professional © Windows 8 Professional For which other operating system do you need to create packages? Answer: You should create packages for Windows Server 2012 so that the remote workers can access both versions of Microsoft Office from the same servers > Task 3: Design a solution for the development team A Datum developers use Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server extensively. They frequently need hardware, more disk space, and extra memory for their computers that are running client hhypervisors. Developers also frequently contact the helpdesk with requests for restores, or to confirm that their databases are backed up. You have some additional budget that you could use for hardware and software to help the development team, and to reduce the administrative and operation task load that they create. 1. Which virtualization and management technology could you implement to improve the development department infrastructure? Answer: You can implement server virtualization using Hyper-V. 2. What tool can you use to find out how big the Hyper-V hosts must be to accommodate the developers’ current systems? Answer: You can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP), 3. Which System Center 2012 R2 component could help you delegate some virtual machine administration, and provide some elements of self-service to the developers? ‘Answer: You can use System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMI) to provide delegated administration and self-serviceServer Vivketon ith Wieden Server Hype-V# ane Sytem Center_L1-3 > Task 4: Respond to the CEO's green initiative enquiry The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of A. Datum has asked you to provide some feedback on how your new: virtualization project will meet the company's green initiatives. Your predecessor had already obtained quotes for more power and cooling feeds to each of the company’s five data centers, to accommodate high-density blade centers that would provide the core virtualization infrastructure + Lista few suggestions that could form part of a report to the CEO, Answer: © Migrating from physical to virtual machines for most of the company’s server workloads should be a key factor in the green initiative. ‘9. Selecting low-power processors and memory in some, or all virtualization hosts will help with energy consumption. ‘9 Windows Server 2012 R2 deduplication could help reduce the storage footprint, in turn making the company greener, ‘© Consolidate some of the data centers. You could reduce the data centers from five to three by Using one subsidiary as secondary data center to the head office main data center © Use shared storage, Results: After completing this exercise, you should have evaluated a given scenario and selected the appropriate virtualization method for that scenario. Exercise 2: Assessing the Environment by Using MAP D> Task 1: Install MAP 1. From LON-CL1, move the pointer to the bottom left of the screen, right-click the Windows icon, and then click Run 2. Inthe Run text box, type \\lon-del\eS\labfiles\mapsetup.exe, and then click OK. 3. In the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Setup Wizard, on the Welcome page, click Next. 4. On the License Agreement page, review the license agreement, click I accept the terms of the license agreement, and then click Next. 5. On the Installation Folder page, review the installation path, and then click Next. 6. On the Customer Experience Improvement Program page, click I don’t want te join the program at this time, and then click Next 7. On the Ready to Install page, click Install 8. On the Installation Successful page, ensure the Open the Microsoft Assessment and Planning and Toolkit check box is selected, and then click Finish. 9. On the Datasaurce page, in the Create or select a database section, in the Name text box, type Demo, and then click OK, 10. Leave the MAP console open for the next task