[Private Cloud] Microsoft Private Cloud Guided Labs

Microsoft release the followings 14 labs to evaluate the Microsoft private cloud core capabilities of Infrastructure Management, Service Delivery & Automation, and Application Management.

To access to the labs : Microsoft Private Cloud Guided Labs

And here are the different labs subjects :

·         Provide resources through self-service requests :

This demo addresses creating and publishing new requests for cloud capacity resources in a service catalog and requesting new cloud resources with the service request form.

·         Drive consistent service delivery :

This demo addresses showing a request being routed to the Virtual Machine Manager administrator for fulfillment, demonstrating integration to drive systems automation, and showing process management for delivery of service.

·         Provision additional cloud infrastructure :

This demo addresses performing a bare-metal deployment of a Microsoft Hyper-V host, creating a new logical network and IP pool, and adding a new host to an existing cluster.

·         Delegate cloud resources :

This demo addresses creating private cloud resources and creating and modifying a user role.

·         Create consistency through service templates :

This demo addresses creating a virtual machine template, adding an application, and creating a service template with Service Designer, a component of Microsoft System Center 2012.

·         Perform a standardized application deployment to test :

This demo addresses configuring a service deployment and deploying the service.

·         Stage application resources :

This demo addresses using the App Controller component of Microsoft System Center 2012 to manage application resources.

·         Self-service deployment of an application to a production environment :

This demo addresses deploying a new application and exploring dynamic, on-demand configuration options.

·         Gain insight and visibility through reporting :

This demo addresses accessing reports in Service Manager and creating and sharing reports.

·         Monitor infrastructure :

This demo addresses network monitoring and visualization and reporting.

·         Taking corrective actions in the infrastructure :

This demo addresses seeing a holistic view of cloud and network health and performing an automated remediation.

·         Reduce time to resolution with application performance monitoring :

This demo addresses configuring application performance monitoring, creating a dashboard, and gaining deeper application insight.

·         Deploy an update to service instance :

This demo addresses modifying a service template and applying an in-place update.

·         Explore creating dashboards :

This demo addresses creating private cloud resources and creating and modifying a user role.