Equip yourselves with the real-world configurations and best practices of Hyper-V to take full advantage of its virtualization capabilitiesAbout This Book
- Learn how to deploy standardized Hyper-V solutions quickly and effectively
- Leverage all virtualization potential of Hyper-V in production environments
- Use state of the art network and storage options with Hyper-V
Who This Book Is For
This book is intended for those who already have some basic experience with Hyper-V and now want to gain additional capabilities and knowledge of Hyper-V.
If you have used Hyper-V in a lab environment before and now want to close the knowledge gap to transfer your Hyper-V environment to production, this is the book for you!
What You Will Learn
- Install Hyper-V and virtual machines automated through PowerShell
- Create High Availability solutions with failover clustering
- Protect from disasters with Hyper-V Replica
- Utilize the performance and scalability of storage virtualization
- Build a flexible network infrastructure without physical boundaries
- Design performance measurement and tuning action plans
- Manage your Hyper-V stack with System Center
- Move existing virtualization workloads to Hyper-V
In Detail
Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V provide best in class virtualization capabilities. Hyper-V is a Windows-based, very cost-effective virtualization solution with easy-to-use and well-known administrative consoles.
With an example-oriented approach, this book covers all the different guides and suggestions to configure Hyper-V and provides readers with real-world proven solutions. After applying the concepts shown in this book, your Hyper-V setup will run on a stable and validated platform.
The book begins with setting up single and multiple High Availability systems. It then takes you through all the typical infrastructure components such as storage and network, and its necessary processes such as backup and disaster recovery for optimal configuration. The book does not only show you what to do and how to plan the different scenarios, but it also provides in-depth configuration options. These scalable and automated configurations are then optimized via performance tuning and central management.
Benedict Berger
10 years ago, Hyper-V MVP Benedict Berger started working with Microsoft Virtualization Solutions. Especially with the first beta version of Windows Server "Longhorn", there were many new features he wanted to try out immediately. "I was particularly interested in Hyper-V, but at that time, there was hardly any experience on this topic, especially in German-speaking areas. Therefore, I had to work out many solutions on my own, and since then, I have been sharing the knowledge I gained with much more intensity and reach. I founded the German Hyper-V Community together with two friends a couple of years ago to promote this topic in Germany even further," he explains. He currently works as a solution consultant for Elanity Network Partner GmbH. Elanity is an IT-service provider that specializes in cloud enablement in Germany. In this dream job, he helps his customers to adjust their IT solutions to their own business processes and to deploy "real" dynamic private and public clouds instead of just virtualizing some systems. So, the tools of his daily work are Windows Server with Hyper-V, System Center, and Microsoft Azure. Before joining Elanity, he worked for a German financial service provider and the global car giant Volkswagen in similar functions. He is a regular speaker at global conferences such as System Center Universe DACH, E2EVC Virtualization Conference and Microsoft TechEd as well as local conferences such as the TechNet Conference in Berlin, in which more than 500 experts participated. He blogs on the German Virtualization Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/germanvirtualizationblog/) and on his personal blog (http://blog.benedict-berger.de). He is also the creator of the PDT GUI, a graphical user interface for the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit.
