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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By : ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
4.6 (8)
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

4.6 (8)
By: ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Introduction
Introduction
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1
Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V
Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V
Introducing Hyper-V
Hyper-V deployment scenario
Hyper-V architecture
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service
Features of Hyper-V
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Hyper-V version comparison
Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 guest VM support
Licensing
Summary
2
Planning, Designing, and Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V
Planning, Designing, and Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V
Planning and designing Hyper-V infrastructure
Upgrading legacy Hyper-V servers to Windows Server 2012
Installing Hyper-V server role
Configuring basic settings for Hyper-V server role
Summary
3
Setting Up Hyper-V Replication
Setting Up Hyper-V Replication
Introducing Hyper-V replication
Software requirements
Hardware requirements
Deployment scenario for Hyper-V Replica
Technical overview of the Hyper-V Replica feature
Hyper-V Replica best practices
Setting up Hyper-V Replica
Monitoring Hyper-V Replica environment
Summary
4
Understanding Hyper-V Networking
Understanding Hyper-V Networking
Hyper-V virtual switch technical overview
Windows Server 2012 – a cloud-ready platform
Improved Hyper-V virtual network switch
Configuring the Hyper-V extensible virtual network switch
Implementing NIC teaming for Hyper-V host and guest
Configuring NIC teaming for the Hyper-V host
Summary
5
A New World of Hyper-V Automation with PowerShell
A New World of Hyper-V Automation with PowerShell
Introduction to PowerShell
Insight into Windows Server 2012 PowerShell (3.0)
Managing Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V with PowerShell 3.0
Windows PowerShell 3.0 capabilities for Hyper-V
Summary
6
Insight into Hyper-V Storage
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Insight into Hyper-V Storage
Understanding virtual storage
Improved Hyper-V storage
Types of Hyper-V virtual storage
Virtual machine storage settings
Hyper-V storage best practices
Summary
7
Managing Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Managing Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
What's new in SCVMM 2012
Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
Configuring SCVMM basic settings
Creating a virtual machine using the SCVMM console
Access to Self-Service Portal
Summary
8
Building Hyper-V High Availability and Virtual Machine Mobility
Building Hyper-V High Availability and Virtual Machine Mobility
Overview of Hyper-V high availability
Understanding Hyper-V high availability and failover clustering core components
Preparing, creating, and configuring a Hyper-V failover cluster
Managing virtual machine mobility and migration
Summary
9
Hyper-V Security Hardening – Best Practices
Hyper-V Security Hardening – Best Practices
Hyper-V and virtualization security pillars
Summary
10
Performing Hyper-V Backup and Recovery
Performing Hyper-V Backup and Recovery
Hyper-V backup methodologies overview
Hyper-V backup considerations and best practices
Implementing Hyper-V virtual machine backup and recovery
Summary
SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index
Index

Types of Hyper-V virtual storage

In the previous section, we discovered what virtual storage is and how it contributes to the server virtualization architecture. With all the information we got from the previous section about virtual storage, let's now move ahead and see the virtual machine storage options that Hyper-V offers us.

In this section, we will go through different types of virtual machine storage options, such as VHD, VHDX, fixed disk, dynamic disk, differencing disk, and pass-through disk. We will discuss each of them in detail so that you understand all their ins and outs for better planning and sizing.

Each of these virtual storage options has a different set of properties than the others, and the administrator must choose the correct virtual storage that best fits the server operating systems and application needs.

Let's now start by discussing each of these virtual storage options for virtual machines based on Hyper-V.

Virtual disk formats

First we must select the virtual disk...

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