Index
A
- Active Directory
- virtualization / Active Directory virtualization concepts
- reference link, for virtualization / Virtual DCs and Checkpoints
- Active Directory (AD)
- about / Share Nothing Live Migration
- Active Directory-detached cluster
- reference link / Virtual DCs and Cluster service
- advanced configuration, Hyper-V networking
- Converged Networking / Converged Networking on Hyper-V
- advanced features, Network Adapter
- about / Advanced Features
- MAC address / MAC address
- DHCP guard / DHCP guard and Router guard
- Router guard / DHCP guard and Router guard
- protected network / Protected network
- Port mirroring / Port mirroring
- NIC Teaming / NIC Teaming
- antivirus software
- installing / Antivirus – to be or not to be?
B
- Backup Domain Controllers (BDC)
- ballooning
- about / Dynamic memory
- Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
- BPA
- about / Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
- components / Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
- states, for validation / Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan
- about / Failing over a VM
C
- Checkpoints
- about / Checkpoints
- folder structure / Checkpoints
- creating / Checkpoints, Virtual DCs and Checkpoints
- using / Checkpoints
- cloning, virtual DC
- process / Virtual DC cloning
- permission, granting to source DC / Granting the source DC the permission to be cloned
- Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationList cmdlet, running / Running the Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationList cmdlet
- New-ADDCCloneConfigFile cmdlet, running / Running the New-ADDCCloneConfigFile cmdlet
- export/import process, using / Creating the virtual DC clones using the export/import process
- Cluster service
- working with / Virtual DCs and Cluster service
- Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) / Advanced configuration for Hyper-V networking
- Companion Subscription License (CSL)
- configurations
- Virtual Hard Disks / Hyper-V Manager
- Virtual Machines / Hyper-V Manager
- Physical GPUs / Hyper-V Manager
- NUMA Spanning / Hyper-V Manager
- Live Migrations / Hyper-V Manager
- Storage Migrations / Hyper-V Manager
- Enhanced Session Mode Policy / Hyper-V Manager
- Replication Configuration / Hyper-V Manager
- Connection Broker
- about / VDI overview and comparison
- Converged Networking, on Hyper-V
- about / Converged Networking on Hyper-V
- NIC Teaming, creating / Creating NIC Teaming
- virtual NIC, creating on host / Creating a virtual NIC on the host
- bandwidth management / Bandwidth Management on Hyper-V
- Coreinfo
D
- DAS / Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
- Data Center Bridging (DCB) / Data Center Bridging
- Datacenter Edition, of Windows Server 2008
- Datacenter Edition, of Windows Server 2008 R2
- Datacenter Edition, of Windows Server 2012
- Datacenter Edition, of Windows Server 2012 R2
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
- Differencing disks
- about / Differencing disks
- using / Differencing disks
- Domain Controller
- database, configuring / Domain Controller database configuration
- DSC
- about / PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Push mode / PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Pull mode / PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- reference link / PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Dynamic Memory
- about / Dynamic memory
- configuring / Dynamic memory configuration
- Memory buffer / Memory buffer
- Memory weight / Memory weight
- Smart Paging / Smart Paging
- Dynamic Quorum
- about / Quorum and Node Majority
E
- Enlightened Child Partition
- Execute Disable Bit
- Extensible Storage Engine (ESE)
F
- failover cluster
- overview / Microsoft failover cluster and Hyper-V overview
- installing / Failover cluster installation and configuration
- configuring / Failover cluster installation and configuration
- Failover Clustering
- features
- defining / Hyper-V for Windows
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) / Data Center Bridging
- Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) / Fibre Channel (FC)
- file types, VM
- XML / Antivirus – to be or not to be?
- BIN / Antivirus – to be or not to be?
- VSV / Antivirus – to be or not to be?
- VHDX / VHD / Antivirus – to be or not to be?
- AVHDX / AVHD / Antivirus – to be or not to be?
- Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO)
- Forced Unit Access (FUA)
- Foundation Edition
- Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) / iSCSI
G
- Generation 1 VM
- about / Generation 1 and 2 VMs
- Generation 2 VM
- about / Generation 1 and 2 VMs
- modifications / Generation 1 and 2 VMs
- reference link, for modifications / Generation 1 and 2 VMs
- Group Policy Objects (GPO)
- about / Creating a Pooled VM collection
- guest cluster
- about / Shared VHDX
- shared VHDX, presenting to / Shared VHDX
H
- Hardware Acceleration
- Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) / Virtual Machine Queue
- IPsec task offloading / IPsec task offloading
- SR-IOV / SR-IOV
- HDD
- about / Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD)?
- RAID recommendations, for virtualization / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- highly available VM
- creating / Creating a highly available VM
- managing / Managing a highly available VM
- startup priority, setting / Setting Startup Priority
- host
- backing up / Backing up your host and VMs
- restoring / Restoring your host and VMs
- reference link, for restoring / Restoring your host and VMs
- hosted
- about / Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
- Host Licensing
- with Hyper-V Replica / Host licensing with Hyper-V Replica
- with Linux VMs / Hyper-V licensing with Linux VMs
- Host Storage
- about / Host storage
- HDD / Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD)?
- SSD / Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD)?
- local storage / Local storage or Local disks
- local disks / Local storage or Local disks
- DAS / Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
- SAN / Storage Area Network (SAN)
- NAS / Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Windows Server, as storage option / Windows Server as a storage option
- clustered iSCSI Target / Clustered iSCSI Target and SMB3
- SMB3 / Clustered iSCSI Target and SMB3
- clustered iSCSI Target / Clustered iSCSI Target and SMB3
- implications / Other host storage implications
- virtual Fibre Channel adapter / Virtual SAN Manager and virtual Fibre Channel adapter
- Virtual SAN Manager / Virtual SAN Manager and virtual Fibre Channel adapter
- 4K disk / 4K disk
- Multipath IO (MPIO) / Multipath IO (MPIO)
- Hyper-V
- requirements / Hyper-V requirements and processor features
- processor features / Hyper-V requirements and processor features
- overview / Microsoft failover cluster and Hyper-V overview
- Hyper-V, for Windows
- about / Hyper-V for Windows
- Hyper-V Cluster
- storage, configuring for / Configuring storage for Hyper-V cluster
- Hyper-V cmdlets
- reference link / Replicating a VM
- Hyper-V configuration
- about / Memory weight
- Hyper-V Extensible Switch
- Hyper-V Host installation
- considerations / Considerations before installing a Hyper-V Host
- Hyper-V Limits
- about / Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
- Host configuration / Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
- VM configuration / Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
- URL / Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
- Hyper-V Limits, for host
- defining / Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
- Hyper-V Limits, for VM
- defining / Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
- Hyper-V Manager / Hyper-V Manager
- Hyper-V Manager, for Windows
- Hyper-V networking
- advanced configuration / Advanced configuration for Hyper-V networking
- advanced configuration / Advanced configuration for Hyper-V networking
- Hyper-V Replica
- about / Hyper-V Replica
- architecture / Hyper-V Replica
- configuring / Configuring Hyper-V Replica
- enabling, PowerShell used / Configuring Hyper-V Replica
- reference link, for configuration / Configuring Hyper-V Replica
- VM, replicating / Replicating a VM
- testing / Testing Hyper-V Replica
- VM failover / Failing over a VM
- virtual DC support / Virtual DCs and Hyper-V Replica
- reference link / Virtual DCs and Hyper-V Replica
- Hyper-V role
- enabling / Enabling the Hyper-V role
- Hyper-V Switch
- Private Virtual Switch / Hyper-V Switch basics
- Internal Virtual Switch / Hyper-V Switch basics
- External Virtual Switch / Hyper-V Switch basics
- Hyper-V Virtual Switch, creating / Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch
- Hyper-V Virtual Switch, creating with PowerShell / Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch using PowerShell
- Hyper-V Virtual Switch
- creating / Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch
- creating, with PowerShell / Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch using PowerShell
- hypercalls
- Hypervisor architecture
- about / Hypervisor architecture
- Type 1 Hypervisor / Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
- Type 2 Hypervisor / Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
- Hypervisors
- Windows Server VMs, licensing with / Licensing Windows Server VMs with other Hypervisors
I
- incremental backups, Windows Server Backup
- about / Incremental backups
- Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) / Virtual disk Quality of Service (QoS)
- installing
- failover cluster / Failover cluster installation and configuration
- Internet Information Services (IIS)
- about / Windows Server with a GUI
- iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) / Installing a Windows Server iSCSI Target Server
J
- Jumbo Frame
- URL / Jumbo Frame
K
- 4K disk / 4K disk
- Kerberos authentication
L
- lab environment
- licensing options
- Linux Integration Services (LIS)
- live migration, of VM
- performing / Live migrating a VM
- VM, moving / Move the virtual machine
- reference link / Move the virtual machine
- VM storage, moving / Moving the VM storage
- Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO) / Advanced configuration for Hyper-V networking
M
- management agents
- about / Windows Server with a GUI
- Memory buffer
- about / Memory buffer
- formula / Memory buffer
- memory configuration
- Memory weight / Memory weight
- Microkernel Type 1 Hypervisor
- defining / Microkernel and Monolithic Type 1 Hypervisors
- advantages / Microkernel and Monolithic Type 1 Hypervisors
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- about / Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- and Windows Server, difference between / Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
- about / Hyper-V Manager
- Microsoft VDI
- deploying / Getting started with Microsoft VDI
- deploying, PowerShell used / Getting started with Microsoft VDI
- Monolithic Type 1 Hypervisor
- defining / Microkernel and Monolithic Type 1 Hypervisors
- advantages / Microkernel and Monolithic Type 1 Hypervisors
- Multipath IO (MPIO)
- about / Multipath IO (MPIO)
- URL / Multipath IO (MPIO)
N
- NAS
- about / Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Server Message Block 3 (SMB3) / Server Message Block 3 (SMB3)
- Network Adapter
- Hardware Acceleration / Hardware Acceleration
- advanced features / Advanced Features
- Network File System (NFS) / Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- network implications
- about / Other network implications
- Policy-based QoS / Policy-based QoS
- Data Center Bridging (DCB) / Data Center Bridging
- Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) / Remote Direct Memory Access
- Jumbo Frame / Jumbo Frame
- Windows Firewall / Windows Firewall
- Hyper-V Extensible Switch / Hyper-V Extensible Switch
- Network Interface Cards (NIC)
- about / Enabling the Hyper-V role
- NIC Teaming options
- URL / Creating NIC Teaming
- Node Majority
- NTBackup
- about / Windows Server Backup overview
- NUMA / Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture
O
- Organizational Unit (OU)
- about / Creating a Pooled VM collection
P
- performance counters
- about / Memory buffer
- Performance options
- configuring, for Live Migration / Performance options for Live Migration
- Personal VM
- about / Pooled and Personal VMs
- Personal VM collection
- creating / Creating a Personal VM collection
- Planned Failover
- about / Failing over a VM
- Policy-based QoS
- URL / Policy-based QoS
- Data Center Bridging (DCB) / Data Center Bridging
- Pooled VM
- about / Pooled and Personal VMs
- Pooled VM collection
- creating / Creating a Pooled VM collection
- creating, PowerShell used / Creating a Pooled VM collection
- PowerShell
- used, for creating Hyper-V Virtual Switch / Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch using PowerShell
- used, for configuring Share Nothing Live Migration / Configuring Share Nothing Live Migration with PowerShell
- used, for enabling Hyper-V Replica / Configuring Hyper-V Replica
- used, for installing Microsoft VDI / Getting started with Microsoft VDI
- used, for creating Pooled VM collection / Creating a Pooled VM collection
- User Profile Disk, enabling / User Profile Disks
- Product User Rights (PUR)
Q
- Quality of Service (QoS) / Network Adapter features
- Quorum
- about / Quorum and Node Majority
- configuration, managing / Quorum and Node Majority
R
- RAID recommendations, for virtualization
- about / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- RAID 0 / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- RAID 1 / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- RAID 5 / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- RAID 10 / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- RAID 50 / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- RAID 60 / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- RDS
- RDS CAL
- read-only domain controller (RODC)
- Recovery Points, VM
- about / Replicating a VM
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
- about / VDI overview and comparison
- reference link / Getting started with Microsoft VDI
- Remote Desktop Web Access
- about / VDI overview and comparison
- Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
- about / Remote Direct Memory Access
- URL / Remote Direct Memory Access
- RemoteFX
- Reverse Replication
- about / Reversing the replication
- Rings
- about / Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
- RSAT
S
- SAN
- about / Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Fibre Channel (FC) / Fibre Channel (FC)
- iSCSI / iSCSI
- Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) / Clustered iSCSI Target and SMB3
- SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation / Failover cluster installation and configuration
- Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
- Server Core
- about / Windows Server without a GUI
- Server Message Block (SMB) / Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Server Message Block 3 (SMB3)
- about / Server Message Block 3 (SMB3), Clustered iSCSI Target and SMB3
- SMB Direct / Server Message Block 3 (SMB3)
- SMB Direct, URL / Server Message Block 3 (SMB3)
- SMB Multichannel / Server Message Block 3 (SMB3)
- SMB Multichannel, URL / Server Message Block 3 (SMB3)
- Session Based
- versus VDI / VDI overview and comparison
- Session Host environments
- shared VHDX
- about / Shared VHDX
- presenting, to guest cluster / Shared VHDX
- Share Nothing Live Migration
- about / Share Nothing Live Migration
- enabling / Share Nothing Live Migration
- Kerberos authentication, configuring / Configuring the Kerberos authentication for Live Migration
- Performance options, configuring / Performance options for Live Migration
- configuring, with PowerShell / Configuring Share Nothing Live Migration with PowerShell
- Small Business Server Edition
- Smart Paging
- about / Dynamic memory, Smart Paging
- SSD
- about / Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD)?
- RAID recommendations, for virtualization / RAID recommendations for virtualization
- Standard Edition
- and Enterprise Edition, comparing between / Standard and Enterprise Editions of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
- using / Specific scenarios with Standard Edition
- scenarios / Specific scenarios with Standard Edition
- Standard Edition, of Windows Server 2008
- Standard Edition, of Windows Server 2008 R2
- Standard Edition, of Windows Server 2012
- Standard Edition, of Windows Server 2012 R2
- states, BPA
- information / Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
- warning / Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
- error / Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
- storage
- configuring, for Hyper-V Cluster / Configuring storage for Hyper-V cluster
- Storage replication / Clustered iSCSI Target and SMB3
- Sysinternals tool
- Sysprep
- about / Sysprepped VMs
- Sysprepped VMs
- about / Sysprepped VMs
- creating / Sysprepped VMs
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- about / Hyper-V Manager
T
- Terminal Services (TS)
- about / VDI overview and comparison
- Time synchronization
- Type 1 Hypervisor
- versus Type 2 Hypervisor / Hypervisor architecture
- about / Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
- Type 2 Hypervisor
- versus Type 1 Hypervisor / Hypervisor architecture
- about / Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
U
- Update Sequence Number (USN)
- about / Virtual DCs and Checkpoints
- user configurations
- about / Hyper-V Manager
- User Profile Disk
- about / User Profile Disks
- enabling / User Profile Disks
- enabling, with PowerShell / User Profile Disks
- reference link / User Profile Disks
V
- validation
- situations / Failover cluster installation and configuration
- Validation wizard
- reference link / Failover cluster installation and configuration
- VDI
- overview / VDI overview and comparison
- features / VDI overview and comparison
- architecture / VDI overview and comparison
- versus Session Based / VDI overview and comparison
- characteristics / VDI characteristics
- benefits / VDI characteristics
- limitations / VDI characteristics
- VDI Licensing
- VDI scenarios
- VHD
- about / Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
- limitations / VHD or VHDX?
- virtual disk, associating to VM / Creating a virtual disk and associating it with a VM
- X, resizing / Online VHDX Resize
- Virtual disk Quality of Service (QoS) / Virtual disk Quality of Service (QoS)
- Storage Live Migration / Storage Live Migration
- VHDX
- characteristics / VHD or VHDX?
- virtual DCs
- about / Time synchronization and virtual DCs
- Checkpoint, creating / Virtual DCs and Checkpoints
- Cluster service, working with / Virtual DCs and Cluster service
- cloning / Virtual DC cloning
- Hyper-V Replica / Virtual DCs and Hyper-V Replica
- Virtual Desktop Access (VDA)
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- about / Dynamic memory configuration
- Virtual disk Quality of Service (QoS) / Virtual disk Quality of Service (QoS)
- virtual environment
- licensing, prior to Windows Server 2012 / Licensing a virtual environment prior to Windows Server 2012
- licensing, with Windows Server 2012 / Licensing a virtual environment with Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
- licensing, with Windows Server 2012 R2 / Licensing a virtual environment with Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
- virtual Fibre Channel adapter / Virtual SAN Manager and virtual Fibre Channel adapter
- virtualization, Active Directory
- about / Active Directory virtualization concepts
- Domain Controller database, configuring / Domain Controller database configuration
- Time synchronization / Time synchronization and virtual DCs
- virtual DCs / Time synchronization and virtual DCs
- Virtualization assistance
- Virtualization Assistance (hardware-assisted virtualization)
- about / Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
- Virtualization host
- about / VDI overview and comparison
- Virtualization Host
- licensing / Virtualization host licensing and its impacts
- licensing, impact / Virtualization host licensing and its impacts
- Virtualization Host Licensing
- Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
- about / Hypervisor architecture
- Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) / Virtual Machine Queue
- virtual NUMA (vNUMA)
- Virtual SAN Manager / Hyper-V for Windows, Virtual SAN Manager and virtual Fibre Channel adapter
- Virtual Service Client (VSC)
- Virtual Service Provider (VSP)
- Virtual Switch
- VM, connecting to / Connecting a VM to a Virtual Switch
- VM
- connecting, to Virtual Switch / Connecting a VM to a Virtual Switch
- management / Virtual machine management
- Generation 2 VM / Generation 1 and 2 VMs
- Generation 1 VM / Generation 1 and 2 VMs
- creating / Creating and modifying a VM
- modification / Creating and modifying a VM
- Checkpoints / Checkpoints
- live-migrating / Live migrating a VM
- moving / Move the virtual machine
- replicating / Replicating a VM
- backing up / Backing up your host and VMs
- restoring / Restoring your host and VMs
- importing / Import and export VMs
- exporting / Import and export VMs
- VM configuration
- about / Memory weight
- VM failover, to Hyper-V Replica
- impact / Failing over a VM
- replication, reversing / Reversing the replication
- replication, extending / Extended replication
- VM Limits
- defining / Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
- VM monitoring
- configuring / Configuring VM Monitoring
- VM network
- features / VM network features
- Network Adapter, features / Network Adapter features
- VM storage
- about / VM storage
- physical disk / Physical disk or pass-through disk
- pass-through disk / Physical disk or pass-through disk
- VHD / Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
- moving / Moving the VM storage
- reference link, for moving / Moving the VM storage
- VM Template
- recreating / Recreating the VM template
- VM templates
- using / Virtual machine templates
- Sysprepped VMs / Sysprepped VMs
- Differencing disks / Differencing disks
- DSC / PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
- about / Replicating a VM
W
- WBADMIN command-line tool
- reference link / Restoring your host and VMs
- Windows Client Licensing, on Hyper-V
- about / Windows Client licensing on Hyper-V
- Windows PCs and VDI / Windows PCs and VDI
- company owned Windows RT tablets / Company-owned Windows RT tablets
- user devices / User devices inside or outside the company network
- non-Microsoft smartphones, licensing for VDI / Non-Microsoft smartphone and tablet licensing for VDI
- non-Microsoft tablets, licensing for VDI / Non-Microsoft smartphone and tablet licensing for VDI
- Windows Device Driver Model (WDDN) 1.2
- about / RemoteFX
- Windows RT Companion VDA Rights
- about / Company-owned Windows RT tablets
- Windows Server, as Storage option
- about / Windows Server as a storage option
- Windows Storage Spaces / Windows Storage Spaces
- Windows Server iSCSI Target Server, installing / Installing a Windows Server iSCSI Target Server
- Windows Server SMB3 Server, installing / Installing a Windows Server SMB3 Server
- Windows Server, with GUI
- about / Windows Server with a GUI
- Hyper-V role, enabling / Enabling the Hyper-V role
- Hyper-V Manager / Hyper-V Manager
- Windows Server, without GUI
- about / Windows Server without a GUI
- Windows Server Core / Windows Server Core
- Windows Server MiniShell / Windows Server Minimal Server Interface (MiniShell)
- Windows Server Backup
- overview / Windows Server Backup overview
- installing / Getting started with Windows Server Backup
- incremental backups / Incremental backups
- backup process, starting / Backing up your host and VMs
- reference link / Backing up your host and VMs
- Windows Server Core / Windows Server Core
- Windows Server MiniShell / Windows Server Minimal Server Interface (MiniShell)
- Windows Server VMs
- licensing, with other Hypervisors / Licensing Windows Server VMs with other Hypervisors
- World Wide Names (WWN) / Virtual SAN Manager and virtual Fibre Channel adapter
- World Wide Port (WWP) / Virtual SAN Manager and virtual Fibre Channel adapter