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Learning Hyper-V

Learning Hyper-V

Overview of this book

This book focuses on readers starting their journey with Hyper-V, and assumes they have minimal or no knowledge of virtualization.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with Hyper-V Architecture and Components

1. Getting Started with Hyper-V Architecture and Components

Hypervisor architecture

Microkernel and Monolithic Type 1 Hypervisors

Hyper-V requirements and processor features

Memory configuration

Dynamic memory

Summary

2. Deploying Hyper-V Hosts

2. Deploying Hyper-V Hosts

Considerations before installing a Hyper-V Host

Windows Server with a GUI

Windows Server without a GUI

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) and Hyper-V Manager for Windows

Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)

Summary

3. Licensing a Virtualization Environment with Hyper-V

3. Licensing a Virtualization Environment with Hyper-V

Licensing a virtual environment prior to Windows Server 2012

Licensing a virtual environment with Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2

Virtualization host licensing and its impacts

Hyper-V licensing with Linux VMs

Windows Client licensing on Hyper-V

VDI licensing, RDS, and virtualization host licensing

VDI scenarios and licensing options

Summary

4. Managing Networking

4. Managing Networking

Hyper-V Switch basics

Connecting a VM to a Virtual Switch

Advanced configuration for Hyper-V networking

VM network features

Other network implications

Summary

5. Managing Storage

5. Managing Storage

Host storage

VM storage

Summary

6. Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Templates

6. Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Templates

Virtual machine management

Virtual machine templates

Summary

7. Implementing High Availability

7. Implementing High Availability

Microsoft failover cluster and Hyper-V overview

Summary

8. Implementing Live Migration and Replica

8. Implementing Live Migration and Replica

Share Nothing Live Migration

Live migrating a VM

Hyper-V Replica

Summary

9. Virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers

9. Virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers

Active Directory virtualization concepts

Summary

10. Implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

10. Implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

VDI overview and comparison

Getting started with Microsoft VDI

Pooled and Personal VMs

Creating a Pooled VM collection

Creating a Personal VM collection

User Profile Disks

RemoteFX

Recreating the VM template

Summary

11. Protecting Your Virtualization Environment

11. Protecting Your Virtualization Environment

Windows Server Backup overview

Backing up your host and VMs

Restoring your host and VMs

Import and export VMs

Summary

Index

Index

Virtual machine templates

If you think about it, it is a repetitive task every time you create a VM. After creating the VM, you have to boot from a CD or DVD, or even from the network to start the guest OS installation. The time you have to wait for the installation to finish is another pain. How do management tools make this task easier? They do so by using VM templates.

A template is nothing more than a collection of disk images, VM profiles, and configurations on the VM that will be used to configure VM with minimum interaction and administrative effort. As said before, System Center Virtual Machine Manager has this management out-of-the-box. Now, you will learn how to create your own VM template using all the native tools of Hyper-V and Windows Server.

Sysprepped VMs

It all starts by creating an OS template. What we need is a configuration of a Windows Server as the base for our template. This consists of installing a regular Windows Server, applying the updates, installing the applications...

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