Successfully create and manage your Hyper-V environment without any of the marketing fluff. This book's lab-driven, hands-on approach will get you up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible. Virtualization is the cornerstone of today's data center. As a modern-day IT pro, you are required to manage environments that are in a regular state of flux and increasing in both size and complexity. To keep up, you need practical information in a format that is succinct, yet comprehensive and highly applicable.

Pro Microsoft Hyper-V breaks down critical and time-saving topics into a series of easy-to-digest chapters, showing you how to perform Hyper-V management tasks using both GUI and PowerShell-based tools. Building on your existing knowledge of Windows Server management, Active Directory, networking, and storage, expert and Microsoft MVP Eric Siron begins with a foundation of why computing workloads are virtualized. This is followed by chapters covering the range of management tasks associated with virtualized environments, including: managing hosts and guest machines; networking, storage, and high availability (host and guest); disaster recovery and virtual machine migration; and monitoring.

What You'll Learn

Apply practical information to administer your Hyper-V environments

Understand multiple administration styles (GUI, command line, and automation)

Written by IT pros for IT pros - just the information you really need without the padding

Administer and use containers

Utilize hands-on labs to learn about storage, networking, and high availability

Who This Book Is For

IT administrators tasked with implementing Hyper-V environments or migrating from VMware. IT pros joining a team that is responsible for managing Hyper-V and "lone administrators" covering the gamut in smaller organizations will also find this book indispensable.

New To This Edition

Checkpoints: automatic checkpoints, backup checkpoints

Monitoring: SCOM, CIM, third party

Migration: Compare VM, remove instructions for MSVMC but leave references (it is long out of support and may cause problems)

Security: firewall, antivirus, domain membership, workgroup, isolated, SMB: auth rate, SMB: signing, SMB: disable NTLM, SMB: dialect control, shielded VMs replaced with Azure Confidential Computing, secure boot

Azure Stack HCI, Azure Edition

Management: add ARC

Storage: ReFS

Clustering: cluster-aware updating, dynamic processor capabilities, workgroup clusters, rolling cluster upgrades

Configuration: GPU partitioning and Direct Device Assignment

Advanced: CIM, nested virtualization

Networking: Receive Segment Coalescing, Switch Embedded Teaming, Software Defined Networking