Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage resources
- Manage virtual machines
- Use migration tools to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine
- Select the appropriate deployment methods for a virtual machine
- Create and deploy a virtual machine, using installation media
- Create and deploy a virtual machine, using automated templates
- Use virtual machine snapshots to reverse, or implement, changes to a virtual machine
- Ensure high availability
- Plan and design a strategy, to ensure high availability of the virtual environment
- Identify and select suitable resources for high availability implementation, according to the enterprise requirements
- Configure the virtual machine environment to ensure high availability
- Configure the virtual machine environment to provide live migration
- Plan and design a backup strategy
- Back up, and recover, a virtual machine using and integrating third-party tools