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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


In today's cloud world, it's very important to work more effectively and to be able to automate processes to act more like a service provider. In daily administration, tasks such as creating a new virtual machine or changing their settings, can take time and resources that could be used in other tasks. With Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell together, you can do almost everything using automated tasks, commandlets, and scripts to save time, thus making them your allies in cutting manual processes and costs. However, people think that scripts and command lines are complex and difficult to be adopted.

PowerShell is necessary for the IT professional today. You should invest in learning it to advance in your career, as more and more Microsoft products will be managed by PowerShell in the future. PowerShell is here to stay and is your friend who will help you to achieve automation in your environment.

The main idea of this recipe is to show how easy and user-friendly PowerShell Version...