Expert3 to 5 days / 20+ guided hourspublished

SCVMM + SCOM Infrastructure Lab: Expert

Operate a production-style private cloud lab with failure simulation, rollback, monitoring, and recovery reporting.

Start lab Open in lab portal

Audience

Self-paced technical learners
Instructor-led cohorts
Enterprise teams preparing staff for hands-on operations

Prerequisites

Intermediate course or equivalent production experience
Comfort with troubleshooting and design tradeoffs

Outcomes

Provision an isolated scvmm + scom infrastructure lab lab from template metadata.
Use snapshots, rollback, validation checks, and teardown safely.
Explain how Microsoft, System Center, Hyper-V fit into an enterprise training environment.
Produce evidence that an instructor or admin can review.

Course plan

Modules and labs

Each module maps to provisioned lab work, validation evidence, reset/rollback policy, and instructor visibility.

Module 1

Production architecture

SCVMM + SCOM Infrastructure Lab Expert lab 1

Module 2

Failure simulation and hardening

SCVMM + SCOM Infrastructure Lab Expert lab 2

Module 3

Automation, DR, and capstone

SCVMM + SCOM Infrastructure Lab Expert capstone

Required templates

Windows Server 2022 base

defined

Windows Server 2022 evaluation or licensed ISO

TODO: Build golden image from valid Microsoft evaluation or customer-licensed media.

Domain Controller template

defined

Windows Server 2022 base

TODO: Automate forest creation and safe random lab password rotation in lab-api worker.

SQL Server template

defined

Windows Server 2022 plus SQL Server Developer/Evaluation media

TODO: Attach approved SQL Server media and create sysprepped image.

SCVMM template

blocked

Windows Server 2022 plus System Center Virtual Machine Manager media

TODO: Blocked until valid System Center installation media and licensing/evaluation rights are supplied.

SCOM template

blocked

Windows Server 2022 plus System Center Operations Manager media

TODO: Blocked until valid System Center installation media and licensing/evaluation rights are supplied.

Hyper-V nested host template

defined

Windows Server 2022 Datacenter or evaluation ISO

TODO: Validate nested virtualization support on each production Proxmox node class before publishing.

Windows Admin Center template

defined

Windows Server 2022 base plus Windows Admin Center installer

TODO: Create gateway certificate automation and student-friendly URL handoff.

Validation checks

AD DS and DNS healthy

Directory services, DNS, and LDAP checks pass inside the tenant network.

SQL reachable

The SQL endpoint accepts a least-privilege validation login.

SCVMM service running

SCVMMService is running and the VMM console endpoint responds.

SCVMM host added

The nested Hyper-V host is present, responding, and not in Needs Attention state.

SCOM agent reporting

Agent heartbeat is current and the computer object is monitored.

Nested virtualization available

A nested workload VM can power on and report guest tools status.

Snapshot created

A named checkpoint exists before the exercise stage.

Rollback tested

The instance returns to the expected baseline state.