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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


Microsoft has done a very good job with Windows 2012 and its new version of Hyper-V. Most of the new and cool features such as Storage Migration, Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Extensible Switch, and many more, focus on virtualization, increasing mobility, scalability, and reliability of your datacenters. With all of them together, we can now say that Windows Server 2012 provides the ultimate private cloud operating system. This means that you will have more flexibility, automation, and better management of virtual and physical servers, in creating your local private cloud infrastructure.

Having said that, the migration plan of the existing environment will still happen. You will probably want to start using all these features. However, the upgrade process needs attention, planning, and special configurations.

With Hyper-V 3 virtual machines, upgrades, and migrations are easier than never before. You can migrate the Virtual Machine (VM) from old Hyper-V versions using the Export/Import...