Pro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019: Practical Guidance and Hands-On Labs

Description

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 Hyper-V 2019 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, experts and Microsoft MVPs Syrewicze and Siddaway begin 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction to Hyper-V (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 1-16 Configuring Hyper-V Host Settings (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 17-29 Creating Your First Hyper-V Virtual Machine (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 31-49 Configuring Basic Virtual Machine Resources and Settings (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 51-67 Managing and Maintaining Hyper-V Integration Services (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 69-84 Managing and Modifying Virtual Machine Files (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 85-106 Utilizing Hyper-V Checkpoints for Software Upgrades (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 107-121 Connecting Virtual Machines to the Physical Network (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 123-136 Connecting Hyper-V Hosts to Storage Infrastructure (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 137-147 Providing High Availability for Hyper-V Virtual Machines (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 149-178 Using Failover Cluster Manager to Manage Hyper-V Clusters (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 179-202 Clustering Hyper-V Guests (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 203-233 Monitoring Hyper-V and Associated Guest VMs (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 235-249 Migrating Virtual Machines Between Hosts (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 251-271 Moving Existing Workloads to Hyper-V (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 273-284 Preparing for Disaster with Hyper-V Replica (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 285-299 Containers (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 301-362 Managing VMs with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 363-374 Continue Learning (Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway)....Pages 375-379 Back Matter ....Pages 381-388