In Chapter 1, Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V, we covered the fundamental concepts of Hyper-V, where we discussed Hyper-V as a hypervisor for your server virtualization needs. Then we moved on with the discussion of Hyper-V deployment scenarios, for example server consolidation, physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration, research and development, business continuity planning and disaster recovery, and cloud computing. With this information, we became familiar with the usage of Hyper-V as a product, and then we moved forward with discussing Hyper-V architecture.

After going through the long journey of introducing Hyper-V as a hypervisor, now in this chapter, we will move forward with the step-by-step phase of planning and designing best practices for a Hyper-V infrastructure. This section will cover all the areas of Hyper-V core components, and will help you plan and design the Hyper-V environment that will best cater to your server...