One such oppurtunity was provided by our very own MumbaiITPro Usergroup to all the technology lovers- especially the ITPRO’s(who turned out to be the lucky ones indeed).

MITP, for the first time introduced a two-day session/training for the IT Pro’s which was purely certification oriented. The intention of the two-day program was to make people aware and simultaneously expert on one of the hottest and at the same time widely used topic in every IT organization – VIRTUALIZATION.  Its the technology (which many of you might be wondering/might have heard or probably may have worked upon), which has definitely prooved to be a major factor in reducing costs for almost every organization.

This was indeed the luckiest thing for the ITPRO’s to gain the knowledge and simultaneously be certified on one of the hottest booming topic Virtualization. (Paper 70-659 : Microsoft Certified Virtualization Specialist).

This two-day(full-time) event was held on 17th and 18th of December, at Microsoft Office Campus – Santacruz, Kalina and was conducted by the experts in the Virtualization field - Mr. Bharat Gupta(MCT, MCVS), Mr. Shabbir Ahmed(MCT,CCIE,MCVS) and Mr. Muhammed(MCVS)

As the objective of the the session was purely to get people certified on Microsoft’s Virtualization Platform,the whole training plan was divided into two days covering the entire course-ware and core concepts.

Day-1 started with introduction to the core topic-Virtualization, its benefits, why its so powerful and widely used these days. The program clearly focused on the Microsoft’s Virtualization Product- Hyper-V!!

It covered right from the basic concepts as to what is Hyper-V, why is it better than other vendors etc to the actual core technical concepts like architecture, type 1 – type 2, Monolithic and Micro-Kernel, Hyper-V Clusters etc.

Post-Lunch session involved a few demos on the product itself. The speaker had created a small lab set-up for demonstrating the concepts to the audience. The demos actually really helped the participants in grasping and understanding the core concepts of the Hyper-V product.

The agenda for the Day-2 was decided such that after the entire course-ware is covered by our speaker – Mr. Bharat, the participants will be benefitted by a quick walkthrough again at the end by our co-speaker Mr. Shabbir Ahmed.

Day-2 was a more hectic as the participants were emerged in the core concepts involving Hyper-V Clusters, Snapshots, Storage Management etc. The speaker also showed us the usage of one of the products from  Microsoft’s System Center Suite – SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager)

Bharta provided a brief outline as to why SCVMM is required im managing the entire Virtual Machines. Bharat also provided demos on creating Hyper-V Cluster, Taking Snapshots, P2V and V2V implementation, importing and exporting of the Virtual Machines etc.

Post -Lunch demos were pretty interesting and kept the participants on their toes to grasp more.

Finally, our co-speaker Mr. Shabbir Ahmed provided a brief outline on the Licensing Structure of the Microsoft Product along with the walk-through of the course-ware.

Day-2 was concluded by providing the participants with discount coupons for the certification exam.

I would like to conclude by thanking the combined efforts of the whole MITP team for organising such a wonderful technical event and that too within a short-time.

I can’t resist to provide a special thanks to Mr. Vinay Mane for feeding me and the participants with that awesome food for both the days.
Special thanks to the Caterers – again brought.hired by Vinay. Trust me guys the food was really awesome.

All the required resources along with the  photos and videos of the events to be uploaded soon.

P.S : The certification is to be given before 31st December, 2011 by the registered participants.

Thanks,
Harmesh Rohira

• Do I really need a IT certification in addition to the university degree?
• What is the value of an IT Certification in the IT industry?
• I am not an IT graduate, does IT certification help?
• Why not only do a training course?

Further to the new Get Certified initiative by the volunteers of MumbaiITPro, we have a collection of resources from Microsoft that will help with a

Though you get several other options to find your answer, here are some important ones with reference to this certification program:-

Do you really need to get certified in Virtualization technology?

So how do you get started being certified as Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and what is it all about?

Understand the exam policies and for every query, get answers here.

Do you have more resources worth sharing? Do let us know in the comments or on the forum.

In just three short years, Hyper-V market share has grown over 16% (IDC WW Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, March 2011) and in July 2011 Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure placed Microsoft in the Leaders quadrant. This shift to Microsoft Virtualization has been clear the past six months as IT Professionals are flocking to the Hyper-V certification and Microsoft Private Cloud solutions. It’s easy to see that organizations who invest in IT Professionals with proven skills in current virtualization and Private Cloud skills will be a step ahead in this ever-changing cloud world.

Get the right skills to move ahead:

Virtualization helps organizations save costs, increase resource availability, and improve agility. Virtualization is a rapidly growing trend in the IT marketplace and a vital step in moving your IT infrastructure to the cloud. But to get the most value, you need the right skills.

To join the ranks of the most skilled IT virtualization professionals, Microsoft suggests to start with Exam 70-659: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization certification.

MumbaiITPro user group organizes a 2 days virtualization certification training program on Exam 70-659. The event happens on 17th and 18th December, 2011 and it is mandatory to get certified as Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization after you pass the Exam 70-659.

Exam 70-659: TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):

Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator

The certification training program will be held at “Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd., 4th Floor, Windsor, Kalina, Santacruz (East), Mumbai – 400 098, India”

More details about this training program can be found in this Training FAQ and Agenda.

Download Registration Form and get in touch with our volunteers who are available all over Mumbai (Western, Central) and Navi Mumbai. All details are updated on the Training FAQ. In case of any queries, we have the discussions forum open.

Learn more about Microsoft Certifications.

REGISTRATIONS CLOSED

[Update: 12th December, 2011]

Thank You everyone for the overwhelming response. We have reached our registration limit and is the time now we officially close the registrations. Please stay updated with our future events on the website.

Would again like to share my experience and walk-through of the yet another successful event conducted by MITP this season.Must say, inspired by India’s First F1 race held at BIC ( Buddha International Circuit) this year; Yes! MITP is back with a BANG!!! We are back again on track after a short pit-stop moment and accelerating far ahead, attaining greater speeds to beat the fellow user-groups.

And mind you guys, this is not just another false claim / boasting of ourselves. We really are back with a vengeance this time.
To support my statement and analogy, the MITP community yet again successfully finished the next lap this Saturday, 26th November 2011 by conducting a great session on ‘Understanding Cloud Computing’ at Microsoft Office, Mumbai.

This time we had two speakers for the aforesaid event providing their insights on the topic. Our very own Mr. Shabbir Ahmed, who recently was awarded with ‘MVP – Exchange’ award. For those who don’t know, MVP – is a prestigious award by Microsoft for outstanding contribution by individuals pertaining to various microsoft products and technology. Secondly, we had an ex-MSP, Mr Abhay Parekh delivering for the first time with MITP.

Now let me talk about the session itself. Umhh, ‘Cloud’ is the latest buzz word in the tech industry these days. There is a huge interest by various professionals, IT-Pro’s, IT-Evangelist and Experts on this topic called ‘Cloud-Computing’. But the ‘CLOUD’ seems to be too “CLOUDY” for many of us despite knowing and hearing about it. This session as the name suggests “Understanding Cloud Computing” was solely meant to clear-out this cloudy-bubble from the minds of the people and clear various myths associated with the term.

Shabbir Bhai- started with stating the scope of session (which was purely from a cloud service provider and consumer point of view), helping us understand the managerial (rather, non-technical) aspect of Cloud Computing, its benefits and pit-falls, and then giving us a few technical insights about the topic. It started with the basic question of What is Cloud Computing? The answer for which was given at the end of the presentation and this was so wisely done which left the audience to think and kept their right side of the brain functioning. We alos covered the essential characteristics associated with Cloud, Various Cloud Service Models- IaaS, PaaS & SaaS and Cloud Deployment Models which includes builiding a Public, Private or Hybrid(mixture of two) Cloud. We also talked about the associated risks with Cloud Computing- Tech Risks, Market Risks and Economic Risks etc. Lastly, the question was answered to the audience which gave a clear picture of what CLOUD Computing actually is, clearing all their myths and doubts on the topic.

The next topic covered was “Microsoft Azure” – a well-known and widely used product from Microsoft which helps in achieving Cloud Computing for an organization or a SME. By just installing and learning the Azure platform, one can completely move to CLOUD. Wow, isn’t it cool. This alongwith few other tech insights was explained and shared by Mr. Abhay Parekh.

After attending the whole session, i get too learn a key thing with all the doubts cleared in mind that - ‘CLOUD Computing is just a new way of delivering and utilizing IT resources, and not a new Technology’. This is so true. I mean it did persists in the industry from past 6-8 years, but no one was utilizing and using it optimally like it is being used now.

The session concluded with a surprise for the audience. Windows XP Celebration!!!
We, the MITP team celebrated ten years of successful completion of Windows XP after its launch. Aahh, we had a blast really by cutting the cake specially designed to include the Microsoft Logo

Pictures to be uploaded soon….Also expect a separate article on this celebration alonwith loads of pictures.

It was indeed awesome to have Mr. Aviraj Ajgekar, IT-Evangelist from Microsoft to share his experience of his carrer in Microsoft catering to different roles and finally as an evangelist.

The whole event was organized and managed by Mr. Prashant Shetty, MITP Member (a great guy with great tech and managing capabilities, true helper) alongwith the collective efforts of other core members and volunteers of the usergroup. Would like to give special thanks to Vinay, Cyril, Hari, Sreekanth, Jenil, Charles, Hardik etc. for their help and constant support.

Overall, the event was a huge success with around 140 registrations which include IT-PRO’s, Developers and Student Community folks.

Note: The Slides / Presentations of the session will be uploaded shortly.

Cheers!!!!

The Insight of Cloud is a dive into cloud computing with a full suite of offerings spanning across Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Mumbai IT PRO invites you to experience the new technology at Cloud Insight. Through this community event, you will have the chance to gain a first-hand understanding of Cloud Computing been shared by speakers Shabbir Ahmed and Abhay Parekh.

Agenda:

- What Is Cloud Computing?
- What Comprises Cloud Computing?
- Essential Characteristics of Cloud Computing
- Cloud Service Models
- Cloud Deployment Models
- Evaluating initial cloud risks (Customer’s View)
- Security Benefits (Customer & Provider’s view)
- Security Risks (Customer & Provider’s view)

* Registration Closed