Instructor-led, 2-days
Day 1 — Platform Strategy, Cost Modeling & Architecture
- Hyper-V vs. VMware: Executive Comparison Licensing, Windows ecosystem integration, SCVMM, Failover Clustering. “Microsoft Hyper-V architecture vs. VMware vSphere/ESXi infrastructure models.”
- Infrastructure Readiness Assessment S2D, CSV, SET networking, AD integration.
- Migration Strategy Overview Azure Migrate, MVMC, StarWind V2V pipelines. “Automated discovery… VMDK to VHDX conversion pipelines.”
- Risk & Compliance Considerations Integration Services, driver remediation, rollback planning.
Day 2 — Governance, Operations & Organizational Change
- Migration Program Leadership Wave planning, downtime management, change control. “Execute a multi-VM migration wave… track conversion times and downtime.”
- Operationalizing Hyper-V HA, Live Migration, Replica, DPM/Azure Backup.
- Security & Automation Strategy Shielded VMs, HGS, JEA, DSC, Azure Arc.
- Team Skills & Resourcing PowerShell automation, Windows Server expertise.
- Executive Reporting & Go-Live Performance benchmarks, storage savings, compliance validation.
