Book description
Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need.
- A complete step-by-step Hyper-V deployment guide, covering all Hyper-V features for configuration and management best practices
- Understand multi-tenancy, flexible architecture, scalability, and high availability features of new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
- Learn Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch, Virtual Machine Migration, Hyper-V Storage, Hyper-V Failover Clustering, and also System Center VMM and DPM for management, backup, and recovery
In Detail
Over a short span of time, server virtualization has been one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in IT business. Microsoft Hyper-V is a hardware-assisted hypervisor product, available as a server role in the Windows Server operating system. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V provides cutting-edge server virtualization features for a scalable, flexible, and highly available virtual machine infrastructure.
"Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform" is a comprehensive guide, which starts itself from basic virtualization and server consolidation concepts, and then goes deeper for discussing advanced topics, such as a Hyper-V scalability, failover, and virtual machine migration. This book is an ideal choice for those who are stepping into Hyper-V world, and also for those who are experts in Hyper-V and want to advance their skills with the new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.
This book contains topics starting from introducing Hyper-V as a hypervisor, and then moves ahead with covering advanced topics, related to Hyper-V configuration and virtual machine management.
The book starts with getting to know Hyper-V, and then we discuss planning, designing, and the implementation of Hyper-V. It then goes with advanced topics such as Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Networking and Storage, Hyper-V High Availability, and so on.
"Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform" is an expert guide for discussing Hyper-V configuration and management topics.
Table of contents
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
- Table of Contents
- Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- Introduction
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1. Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V
- Introducing Hyper-V
- Hyper-V deployment scenario
- Hyper-V architecture
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service
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Features of Hyper-V
- Hyper-V automation with PowerShell
- Hyper-V dynamic memory improvements
- Improved network virtualization and multitenancy
- Hyper-V data offloading improvements
- Hyper-V virtual machine replication
- Resource metering for Hyper-V virtual workloads
- Hyper-V support for large-sector disks
- Virtual Fibre Channel for fabric connectivity
- New virtual hard disk format
- NIC teaming for host and guest machines
- Hyper-V virtual switch improvements
- Scalable virtualization infrastructure
- Live storage migration
- Hyper-V support for SMB
- Hardware requirements
- Software requirements
- Hyper-V version comparison
- Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 guest VM support
- Licensing
- Summary
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2. Planning, Designing, and Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V
- Planning and designing Hyper-V infrastructure
- Upgrading legacy Hyper-V servers to Windows Server 2012
- Installing Hyper-V server role
- Configuring basic settings for Hyper-V server role
- Summary
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3. Setting Up Hyper-V Replication
- Introducing Hyper-V replication
- Software requirements
- Hardware requirements
- Deployment scenario for Hyper-V Replica
- Technical overview of the Hyper-V Replica feature
- Hyper-V Replica best practices
- Setting up Hyper-V Replica
- Monitoring Hyper-V Replica environment
- Summary
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4. Understanding Hyper-V Networking
- Hyper-V virtual switch technical overview
- Windows Server 2012 – a cloud-ready platform
- Improved Hyper-V virtual network switch
- Configuring the Hyper-V extensible virtual network switch
- Implementing NIC teaming for Hyper-V host and guest
- Configuring NIC teaming for the Hyper-V host
- Summary
- 5. A New World of Hyper-V Automation with PowerShell
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6. Insight into Hyper-V Storage
- Understanding virtual storage
- Improved Hyper-V storage
- Types of Hyper-V virtual storage
- Virtual machine storage settings
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Hyper-V storage best practices
- Dynamic disks are not good candidates for high disk I/O activity
- Differencing disks can lead to data loss
- Creating a production virtual machine's snapshot with caution
- Pass-through disks are recommended for databases
- Frequently merging a virtual machine's snapshot
- Including virtual machine RAM for storage sizing
- External storage migration and Hyper-V pass-through disk availability for VM
- Virtual machine application and server role placement – best practices
- Summary
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7. Managing Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- What's new in SCVMM 2012
- Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
- Configuring SCVMM basic settings
- Creating a virtual machine using the SCVMM console
- Access to Self-Service Portal
- Summary
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8. Building Hyper-V High Availability and Virtual Machine Mobility
- Overview of Hyper-V high availability
- Understanding Hyper-V high availability and failover clustering core components
- Preparing, creating, and configuring a Hyper-V failover cluster
- Managing virtual machine mobility and migration
- Summary
- 9. Hyper-V Security Hardening – Best Practices
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10. Performing Hyper-V Backup and Recovery
- Hyper-V backup methodologies overview
- Hyper-V backup considerations and best practices
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Implementing Hyper-V virtual machine backup and recovery
- Hyper-V backup and recovery with the Windows Server Backup feature
- Hyper-V backup and recovery with System Center Data Protection Manager
- Summary
- A. SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
- B. SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
- Index
Product information
- Title: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849688345
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