Pro Microsoft Hyper-V

Successfully create and manage your Hyper-V environment without any of the marketing fluff.

This book's lab-driven, hands-on approach will get you up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible. Virtualization is the cornerstone of today's data center.

As a modern-day IT pro, you are required to manage environments that are in a regular state of flux and increasing in both size and complexity. To keep up, you need practical information in a format that is succinct, yet comprehensive and highly applicable.

Pro Microsoft Hyper-V breaks down critical and time-saving topics into a series of easy-to-digest chapters, showing you how to perform Hyper-V management tasks using both GUI and PowerShell-based tools. Building on your existing knowledge of Windows Server management, Active Directory, networking, and storage, expert and Microsoft MVP Eric Siron begins with a foundation of why computing workloads are virtualized. This is followed by chapters covering the range of management tasks associated with virtualized environments, including: managing hosts and guest machines; networking, storage, and high availability (host and guest); disaster recovery and virtual machine migration; and monitoring.

What You'll Learn

Apply practical information to administer your Hyper-V environments

Understand multiple administration styles (GUI, command line, and automation)

Written by IT pros for IT pros

Just the information you really need without the padding

Administer and use containers

Utilize hands-on labs to learn about storage, networking, and high availability

Who This Book Is For

IT administrators tasked with implementing Hyper-V environments or migrating from VMware. IT pros joining a team that is responsible for managing Hyper-V and lone administrators covering the gamut in smaller organizations will also find this book indispensable.

New To This Edition

Checkpoints: automatic checkpoints, backup checkpoints

Monitoring: SCOM, CIM, third party

Migration: Compare VM, remove instructions for MSVMC but leave references (it is long out of support and may cause problems)

Security: firewall, antivirus, domain membership, workgroup, isolated, SMB: auth rate, SMB: signing, SMB: disable NTLM, SMB: dialect control, shielded VMs replaced with Azure Confidential Computing, secure boot

Azure Stack HCI, Azure Edition

Management: add ARC

Storage: ReFS

Clustering: cluster-aware updating, dynamic processor capabilities, workgroup clusters, rolling cluster upgrades

Configuration: GPU partitioning and Direct Device Assignment

Advanced: CIM, nested virtualization

Networking: Receive Segment Coalescing, Switch Embedded Teaming, Software Defined Networking