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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

Creating and managing virtual switches


Virtual switches are the components on Hyper-V that are responsible for controlling the network traffic between the virtual machine, the host, and the physical network. Their supporting features and advanced management capabilities limit, secure, isolate, protect, and control the way the VMs send and receive the network data.

The virtual switches on Hyper-V 3.0 come with some interesting features such as private VLANs, bandwidth management, spoofing protection, and other components that we will cover in this recipe.

Before we start with advanced components, you will see the basic switch options, and how to create and add a virtual switch to a virtual machine.

Getting ready

To use the external switches on Hyper-V, make sure that the network drives are installed and the network adapter is enabled on the host computer.

How to do it...

The following steps cover the process of creating a new virtual switch and configuring its common settings.

  1. To create a new...