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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By : Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By: Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

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 and 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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Virtual machines running on Hyper-V are responsible for all system and Line of Business (LOB) applications for your company. As a virtualization administrator, it is your responsibility to check the host and the virtual machine health with monitoring applications, extract reports to verify workload increases, and then make possible tunings to get incremental performance increases, if needed.

It is highly recommended that you monitor your physical and virtual servers, making sure they are working as expected. Some tools and utilities will also show when something is not behaving as normal, helping you to identify when tuning is necessary or whether a problem exists.

In some cases, errors will occur, and you will have to be prepared to react immediately. Monitoring solutions will allow you to be notified, so that you can start the troubleshooting process to solve problems as soon as possible.

In this chapter, we will see how to use the default tools in Windows Server 2012 to monitor...