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Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By : Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic
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Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By: Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic

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Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Saurabh Grover | Goran Svetlecic
Aug, 2015 | 416 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Introducing Release 2.0
Introducing Release 2.0
An insight into virtualization
Cloud computing – raising the bar for virtualization and automation
Windows Server 2012 – the 2.0 Release
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V (R1/R2) – the challenger or the new champion?
Licensing – Windows Server 2012 / Windows Server 2012 R2
Hypervisors – let's compare again
Summary
2
Planning and Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V
Planning and Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V
Virtualization goals
Design considerations
Installing and configuring Hyper-V role
Upgrading Hyper-V hosts
Hyper-V management
Summary
3
Deploying Virtual Machines
Deploying Virtual Machines
Virtual machine – Generation 1 versus Generation 2
New virtual machine setup
Operating system installation
Virtual machine conversion
Virtual machine capacity and design considerations
Summary
4
Hyper-V Networking
Hyper-V Networking
The Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch
Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC teaming
Quality of Service
Summary
5
Storage Ergonomics
Storage Ergonomics
Virtual storage
VHD and VHDX
Pass-through disks
Virtual fibre channel
Guest cluster setup using shared VHDX
SMI-S
Summary
6
Planning a Virtual Machine's High Availability and Mobility
Planning a Virtual Machine's High Availability and Mobility
Hyper-V failover cluster deployment
A virtual machine's high availability and mobility
Scale-Out File Server (SOFS)
Summary
7
Building a Secure Virtualization Environment
Building a Secure Virtualization Environment
Hypervisor and Management OS security
Securing the virtual network
Protecting the guest machines
Other best practices
Summary
8
Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V Replica overview
Hyper-V Replica setup and configuration
Azure Site Recovery
Summary
9
Backup and Recovery Strategies for Hyper-V Solutions
Backup and Recovery Strategies for Hyper-V Solutions
Hyper-V backup strategies and options
Windows Server Backup
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) 2012 R2
Summary
10
Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Desktop virtualization
Hyper-V for VDI – the engine under the hood
Understanding VDI deployment
Summary
Index
Index

Hyper-V for VDI – the engine under the hood

Hyper-V has had a remarkable evolution, and MS VDI had tagged alongside it for almost the very onset. VDI runs on the Hyper-V platform, Windows Server 2012 R2, or free Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, unlike session desktops on RDS, which is a server role installed on a Windows Server platform. VDI saw the light of the day with Windows Server 2008 R2, and caught the attention with Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 when two interesting features were rolled out, namely RemoteFX and dynamic memory.

Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 added more attributes to the former two features and introduced furthermore to the arsenal feature. We will discuss them briefly and see their value add-ons:

  • RemoteFX: An acquired intellectual property, RemoteFX was put to good use and developed further with VDI. The core idea was to give a superior visual experience via the remote desktop protocol, and render the Aero to virtual desktops similar to physical desktops...

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