Virtualization has proved that it can help organizations to reduce costs, and the Private Cloud has created a revolution in the way we manage and control our servers with centralization and elasticity. The new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V release from Microsoft comes with a myriad of improvements in areas such as mobility, high availability, and elasticity, bringing everything you need to create, manage, and build the core components of a Microsoft Private Cloud for virtualized workloads.
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook is the perfect accompaniment for Hyper-V administrators looking to take advantage of all the exciting new features the release has to offer. Through practical recipes, you'll master Hyper-V deployment, migration, and management.
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook is an essential resource for any Hyper-V administrator looking to migrate, install, or manage their virtual machine efficiently.
With all the features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V covered, you will learn everything from installation to disaster recovery, security, high availability, configuration, automation, architecture, and monitoring, all in a practical recipe format. The book also includes new features such as Storage and Shared Nothing Live Migration, Hyper-V Replica and Network Virtualization, and much more.
With Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook in hand, you'll be equipped to manage your private cloud with ease.
Chapter 1 , Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full or Server Core Mode, provides all the necessary information that you need to know before, during, and after the Hyper-V installation, to make sure that you can save time and solve any problems that you may face.
Chapter 2, Migrating and Upgrading Physical and Virtual Servers, covers tasks that will help you to have an easy and a successful upgrade to the new Windows and Hyper-V versions. You will see how to export and import virtual machines, convert VHD files to VHDX files, migrate virtual machine storage using Storage Migration, and so on.
Chapter 3 , Managing Disk and Network Settings, covers recipes that will help you to manage disk and network settings efficiently.
Chapter 4 , Saving Time and Cost with Hyper-V Automation, highlights the importance of PowerShell. This chapter will help you to learn and utilize basic commands in PowerShell and also to use them for daily tasks.
Chapter 5 , Hyper-V Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks, will show you some best practices for Hyper-V and how they can easily be identified and implemented. By using best practices, you can enhance performance, increase security, and improve Hyper-V administration.
Chapter 6 , Security and Delegation of Control, shows how to use configuration options such as access control using Authorization Manager and Simple Authorization, network protection with Port ACLs, and Hyper-V auditing, to enforce a safer environment for virtual and host computers.
Chapter 7 , Configuring High Availability in Hyper-V, will show you how to create an iSCSI Target server for low-cost storage, how to prepare and configure a failover cluster for Hyper-V, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), and other interesting things, to provide a high availability Hyper-V environment.
Chapter 8 , Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V, will walk you through the most important process for setting up disaster recovery for your virtual machines running on Hyper-V.
Chapter 9 , Monitoring, Tuning, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V, shows how to use the default tools in Windows Server 2012 to monitor physical and virtual servers, how to troubleshoot, and how to tune Hyper-V servers.
Appendix A, Hyper-V Architecture and Components, includes well-explained topics with the most important Hyper-V architecture components compared with other versions.
You should be comfortable with virtualization concepts and practices, and knowledge of previous versions of Windows Server would be an advantage.
If you are an administrator who wants to master Microsoft Server Virtualization with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, this book is for you.
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Code words in text are shown as follows: "After its download, copy it to the chosen directory, then access it through the command prompt and run the command coreinfo –v."
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netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 1
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