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Scenario
Lab: Implementing and configuring
Objectives virtualization in Windows Server
Estimated time:
60 minutes Scenario
Lab Setup Contoso is a global engineering and manufacturing company with its head office in Seattle, USA. An IT office and
data center are in Seattle to support the Seattle location and other locations. Contoso recently deployed a
Exercise 1:
Creating and Windows Server server and client infrastructure.
configuring VMs
Because of many physical servers being currently underutilized, the company plans to expand virtualization to
Exercise 2: optimize the environment. Because of this, you decide to perform a proof of concept to validate how Hyper-V
Installing and
configuring can be used to manage a virtual machine environment. Also, the Contoso DevOps team wants to explore
containers container technology to determine whether they can help reduce deployment times for new applications and to
simplify moving applications to the cloud. You plan to work with the team to evaluate Windows Server
containers and to consider providing Internet Information Services (Web services) in a container.
Note: An interactive lab simulation is available that allows you to click through this lab at your own pace. You
may find slight differences between the interactive simulation and the hosted lab, but the core concepts and
ideas being demonstrated are the same.
Objectives
After completing this lab, you’ll be able to:
Create and configure VMs.
Install and configure containers.
Estimated time: 60 minutes
Lab Setup
Virtual machines: AZ-800T00A-SEA-DC1, AZ-800T00A-SEA-SVR1, and AZ-800T00A-ADM1 must be running.
Other VMs can be running, but they aren’t required for this lab.
❕ Note: AZ-800T00A-SEA-DC1, AZ-800T00A-SEA-SVR1, and AZ-800T00A-SEA-ADM1 virtual machines are hosting the
installation of SEA-DC1, SEA-SVR1 and SEA-ADM1
1. Select SEA-ADM1.
2. Sign in using the following credentials:
User name: Administrator
Password: Pa55w.rd
Domain: CONTOSO
For this lab, you’ll use the available VM environment.
Exercise 1: Creating and configuring VMs
Scenario
In this exercise, you will use Hyper-V Manager and Windows Admin Center to create and configure a virtual
machine. You will start with creating a private virtual network switch. Next, you decide to create a differencing
drive of a base image that has already been prepared with the operating system to be installed on the VM.
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Finally, you will create a generation 1 VM that uses the differencing drive and private switch that you have
prepared for the proof of concept.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:
1. Create a Hyper-V virtual switch
2. Create a virtual hard disk
3. Create a virtual machine
4. Manage virtual machines using Windows Admin Center
Task 1: Create a Hyper-V virtual switch
1. On SEA-ADM1, open Server Manager.
2. In Server Manager, select All Servers.
3. In the Servers list, select SEA-SVR1 and use its context-sensitive menu to start Hyper-V Manager
targeting that server.
4. In Hyper-V Manager, use the Virtual Switch Manager to create on SEA-SVR1 a virtual switch with the
following settings:
Name: Contoso Private Switch
Connection type: Private network
Task 2: Create a virtual hard disk
1. On SEA-ADM1, in Hyper-V Manager, use the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard to create on SEA-SVR1 a
new virtual hard disk with the following settings:
Disk Format: VHD
Disk Type: Differencing
Name: SEA-VM1
Location: C:\Base
Parent Disk: C:\Base\BaseImage.vhd
Task 3: Create a virtual machine
1. On SEA-ADM1, in Hyper-V Manager, on SEA-SVR1, create a new virtual machine with the following
settings:
Name: SEA-VM1
Location: C:\Base
Generation: Generation 1
Memory: 4096
Networking: Contoso Private Switch
Hard disk: C:\Base\SEA-VM1.vhd
2. Open the Settings window for SEA-VM1 and enable Dynamic Memory with a Maximum RAM value of
4096.
3. Close Hyper-V Manager.
Task 4: Manage Virtual Machines using Windows Admin Center
1. On SEA-ADM1, start Windows PowerShell as Administrator.
❕ Note: Perform the next two steps in case you have not already installed Windows Admin Center on SEA-ADM1.
2. In the Windows PowerShell console, run the following command, and then press Enter to download the
latest version of Windows Admin Center:
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Start-BitsTransfer -Source https://aka.ms/WACDownload -Destination
"$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\WindowsAdminCenter.msi"
3. Enter the following command, and then press Enter to install Windows Admin Center:
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Start-Process msiexec.exe -Wait -ArgumentList "/i
$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\WindowsAdminCenter.msi /qn /L*v log.txt
REGISTRY_REDIRECT_PORT_80=1 SME_PORT=443 SSL_CERTIFICATE_OPTION=generate"
❕ Note: Wait until the installation completes. This should take about 2 minutes.
4. On SEA-ADM1, start Microsoft Edge and connect to the local instance of Windows Admin Center at
https://SEA-ADM1.contoso.com .
5. If prompted, in the Windows Security dialog box, enter the following credentials, and then select OK:
Username: CONTOSO\Administrator
Password: Pa55w.rd
6. In Windows Admin Center, add a connection to sea-svr1.contoso.com and connect to it as
CONTOSO\Administrator with the password of Pa55w.rd.
7. In the Tools list, select Virtual Machines and review the Summary pane.
8. In the Inventory pane open SEA-VM1 and review the Setting.
9. Use Windows Admin Center to create a new disk, 5 GB in size.
10. Use Windows Admin Center to start SEA-VM1, and then display the statistics for the running VM.
11. Use Windows Admin Center to shut down SEA-VM1.
12. In the Tools list, select Virtual switches and identify the existing switches.
Exercise 1 results
After this exercise, you should have used Hyper-V Manager and Windows Admin Center to create a virtual
switch, a virtual hard disk, a virtual machine, and then manage the virtual machine.
Exercise 2: Installing and configuring containers
Scenario
In this exercise, you will use Docker to install and run Windows containers. You will also use Windows Admin
Center to manage containers.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:
1. Install Docker on Windows Server
2. Install and run a Windows container
3. Use Windows Admin Center to manage containers
Task 1: Install Docker on Windows Server
1. On SEA-ADM1, in Windows Admin Center, while connected to sea-svr1.contoso.com, use the Tools
menu to establish a PowerShell Remoting session to that server.
❕ Note: The Powershell connection in Windows Admin Center may be relatively slow due to nested virtualization used
in the lab, so an alternate method is to run Enter-PSSession -ComputerName SEA-SVR1 from a Windows
Powershell console on SEA-ADM1.
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2. In the PowerShell console, run the following commands to force the use of TLS 1.2 and install the
PowerShellGet module:
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[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -
bor [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force
Install-Module PowerShellGet -RequiredVersion 2.2.4 -SkipPublisherCheck
3. After the installation completes, run the following command to restart SEA-SVR1:
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Restart-Computer -Force
4. After SEA-SVR1 restarts, use the PowerShell tool again to establish a new PowerShell Remoting session to
SEA-SVR1.
5. In the Windows PowerShell console, run the following command to install the Docker Microsoft
PackageManagement provider on SEA-SVR1:
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Install-Module -Name DockerProvider -Repository PSGallery -Force
6. In the Windows PowerShell console, run the following command to install the Docker runtime on SEA-
SVR1:
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Install-Package -Name docker -ProviderName DockerProvider
7. After the installation completes, run the following commands to restart SEA-SVR1:
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Restart-Computer -Force
Task 2: Install and run a Windows container
1. After SEA-SVR1 restarts, use the PowerShell tool again to establish a new PowerShell Remoting session to
SEA-SVR1.
2. In the Windows PowerShell console, run the following command to verify the installed version of Docker:
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Get-Package -Name Docker -ProviderName DockerProvider
3. Run the following command to identify Docker images currently present on SEA-SVR1:
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docker images
❕ Note: Verify that there are no images in the local repository store.
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4. Run the following command to download a Nano Server image containing an Internet Information Services
(IIS) installation:
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docker pull nanoserver/iis
❕ Note: The time it takes to complete the download will depend on the available bandwidth of the network
connection from the lab VM to the Microsoft container registry.
5. Run the following command to verify that the Docker image has been successfully downloaded:
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docker images
6. Run the following command to launch a container based on the downloaded image:
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docker run --isolation=hyperv -d -t --name nano -p 80:80 nanoserver/iis
❕ Note: The docker command starts a container in the Hyper-V isolation mode (which addresses any host operating
system incompatibility issues) as a background service ( -d ) and configures networking such that port 80 of the
container host maps to port 80 of the container.
7. Run the following command to retrieve the IP address information of the container host:
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ipconfig
❕ Note: Identify the IPv4 address of the Ethernet adapter named vEthernet (nat). This is the address of the new
container. Next, identify the IPv4 address of the Ethernet adapter named Ethernet. This is the IP address of the host
(SEA-SVR1) and is set to 172.16.10.12.
8. On SEA-ADM1, switch to the Microsoft Edge window, open another tab and go to http://172.16.10.12.
Verify that the browser displays the default IIS page.
9. On SEA-ADM1, switch back to the PowerShell Remoting session to SEA-SVR1 and, in the Windows
PowerShell console, run the following command to list running containers:
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docker ps
❕ Note: This command provides information on the container that is currently running on SEA-SVR1. Record the
container ID because you will use it to stop the container.
10. Run the following command to stop the running container (replace the <ContainerID> placeholder with
the container ID you identified in the previous step):
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docker stop <ContainerID>
11. Run the following command to verify that the container has stopped:
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docker ps
Task 3: Use Windows Admin Center to manage containers
1. On SEA-ADM1, in Windows Admin Center, in the Tools menu of sea-svr1.contoso.com, select
Containers. When prompted to close the PowerShell session, select Continue.
2. In the Containers pane, browse through the Overview, Containers, Images, Networks, and Volumes tabs.
Exercise 2 results
After this exercise, you should have installed Docker on Windows Server, downloaded a Windows container
image containing web services, and verified its functionality.
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