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Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By : Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic
Book Image

Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By: Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing and configuring Hyper-V role


After all the design considerations and brainstorming, we are ready to roll out our new Hyper-V host. In this section, we will look at both building a fresh Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 host and options for upgrading the older Hyper-V hosts. The process requires reviewing technical requirements for Hyper-V, which we looked at briefly in Chapter 1, Introducing Release 2.0. We will consider the Hyper-V checklist before installing the Hyper-V role. It is imperative to understand and follow the road map because if any aspect is missed, the admins have to backtrack and understand what the missed points are. Also, we will look at the differences between a full and a Server Core installation and their configuration.

Installing a new Hyper-V host

We will first look at the process of building a fresh Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host. The installation is quite similar to a standard Windows installation and the groundwork done prior to it. Let's look at the...