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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


The adoption of and migration to the virtual environment has been implemented by almost all companies nowadays. Virtual servers provide benefits such as lower energy consumption, datacenter space, and costs. On the other hand, it can be very dangerous, since lots of virtual machines running on just one server creates a single point of failure. In this example, if a server with heaps of virtual machines is down, not only is one system affected, but also all VMs running on that server.

The good news is that Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V come with the right tools and high availability solutions for almost all scenarios. In fact, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering are so deeply integrated, that in previous Windows Server versions, some of the features in Failover Clustering were only meant for Hyper-V use. This has also been improved in Windows Server 2012, so that you can take advantage of new features such as Hyper-V over SMB, built upon CSV2.0.

Small offices or huge datacenters...