Prepare for the 74-409 exam

On the moment I’m preparing for the 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center  exam. The exam is an replacement for the  Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Virtualization 70-659 exam.  To prepare for the 74-409 exam I use the following resources:

  • Exam information: 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Associated. Link
  • Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center free training. Link
  • 74-409 Study WIKI. Link.
  • Claim a free voucher for the 74-409 exam. Link
  • Bjorn Houben preparing links for the 74-409 exam. Link
  • Lab environment for Hands-on experience

The most important piece is to get hands-on experience. To get hands-on I build a Hyper-V 2012 R2 lab environment. The lab environment is build on a single whitebox ESXi server. The lab environment contains the following components:

  • VMware ESXi server with an Intel-i7-3820 CPU,32 GB memory and 1TB local storage. Link
  • HP ProCurve  1018G-8 port switch.
  • 4 x Windows Server 2012 VMs with the Hyper-V role enabled. The 4 Hyper-V VMs are divided over two clusters. Each cluster runs 2 VMs (nested).
  • 1 x Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller with iSCSI target enabled. The nested VM’s inside the Hyper-V VMs are stored on the iSCSI target.
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 VM for the management of both Hyper-V clusters

Here is an overview of the Hyper-V 2012 R2 lab environment:

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