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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Enabling nested virtualization


This has been one of the most requested features for Hyper-V for many years. This is because Hyper-V did not support nested virtualization. In Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added support for Nested Virtualization.

This feature has been around on other Type 1 hypervisors for a while now, but until recently, Microsoft showed little interest in providing the same functionality. This is because the only real use cases were home lab and training environments.

However, Microsoft went beyond the basic use of Nested Virtualization, and they have added containers into Windows Server 2016. This is the real reason why Microsoft took the time to enable nested virtualization. In the event this topic is new for you, think of a container as a type of mini VM, simply with applications in mind. Instead of virtualizing the entire OS, a container focuses on providing an isolated environment for an application to reside in without the overhead of a full VM. Microsoft...