In this first chapter, we covered the Hyper-V deployment scenario first to get some hot information about where and why to use Hyper-V. This section also provided a great deal of information on how organizations can take advantage of the native hypervisor available in Windows Server, to fulfill their virtualization needs, and how it can also be helpful to set up the disaster recovery and business continuity environments.

In the next section, we moved straight to the Hyper-V architecture to get ourselves familiar with the different types of hypervisors, and see the difference between parent and child partition.

Then, after covering the Hyper-V architecture, we looked closely at the Hyper-V virtual machine service, which is the core engine of Hyper-V, for the management of both parent and child partitions. After discussing VMMS, we discussed the Hyper-V features, where we also compared the features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V with its older versions. And finally, we closed this chapter by discussing a few last topics, including Hyper-V hardware, software, and licensing information. With all of these important topics, we made ourselves fully familiar with what Hyper-V offers and we made ourselves ready to take this journey to the next level, where we will examine each Hyper-V pillar and its major service parts individually in the upcoming chapters.

In the next chapter, we will cover the topics of Hyper-V planning, designing, and implementation. These topics will provide all the information needed for us to plan and design our Hyper-V environment. Once the planning and designing part is done, we will also see how to implement Hyper-V in our organization and take care of its basic configuration.