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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

VM protection (vTPM)


Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V introduces the ability to create a Shielded Virtual Machine. This new feature adds a vTPM to a Generation 2 VM. The vTPM then enables the use of BitLocker on the boot volume of the VM, to secure data at rest. Adding a vTPM requires Secure Boot. However, a physical TPM v2.0 is not required. This is an important point, as this enhances VM mobility and allows the VM to be migrated between Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V hosts.

While we won't be focusing on Shielded VMs within this specific recipe, VM Protection with a vTPM is the first of three features or components that come together to deliver what Microsoft calls the Shielded VM. For more information on Shielded VMs, please see the Shielded VM recipe.

Getting ready

VM Protection with a vTPM requires a Generation-2 VM and a supported operating system, Windows Server 2012 or above. At the time of writing, further down-level operating systems such as Windows 2008 R2 and non-Windows operating systems...