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

Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need.

Overview

• A complete step-by-step Hyper-V deployment guide, covering all Hyper-V features for configuration and management best practices.
• Understand multi-tenancy, flexible architecture, scalability, and high availability features of new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.
• Learn Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch, Virtual Machine Migration, Hyper-V Storage, Hyper-V Failover Clustering, and also System Center VMM and DPM for management, backup, and recovery.

In Detail

Over a short span of time, server virtualization has been one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in IT business. Microsoft Hyper-V is a hardware-assisted hypervisor product, available as a server role in the Windows Server operating system. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V provides cutting-edge server virtualization features for a scalable, flexible, and highly available virtual machine infrastructure.

"Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform" is a comprehensive guide, which starts itself from basic virtualization and server consolidation concepts, and then goes deeper for discussing advanced topics, such as a Hyper-V scalability, failover, and virtual machine migration. This book is an ideal choice for those who are stepping into Hyper-V world, and also for those who are experts in Hyper-V and want to advance their skills with the new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

This book contains topics starting from introducing Hyper-V as a hypervisor, and then moves ahead with covering advanced topics, related to Hyper-V configuration and virtual machine management.

The book starts with getting to know Hyper-V, and then we discuss planning, designing, and the implementation of Hyper-V. It then goes with advanced topics such as Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Networking and Storage, Hyper-V High Availability, and so on.

"Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform" is an expert guide for discussing Hyper-V configuration and management topics.

What you will learn from this book

• Plan, design, and implement Hyper-V.
• Set up Hyper-V Replication.
• Understand Hyper-V Extensible virtual network switch.
• Get insight about Hyper-V virtual machine storage.
• Understand System Center Virtual Machine Manager for Hyper-V and private cloud fabric management.
• Master building Hyper-V high availability and understand virtual machine mobility.
• Learn Hyper-V backup and recovery methodologies for the Windows server backup feature and System Center Data Protection Manager.
• Consider Hyper-V security hardening best practices.

Approach

This books takes a comprehensive tutorial approach with plenty of screenshots and detailed step-by-step instructions.

Who this book is written for

This book is for Windows server administrators, who may not necessarily be familiar with Hyper-V, and also for existing Hyper-V administrators who want to advance their skills in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

Zahir Hussain Shah

Zahir Hussain Shah, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, has worked with businesses from small to medium sized organizations to gigantic multi-national companies, providing IT consultancy and solution delivery. He has been in the IT industry for over 7 years now. Currently he is working with UAEs prestigious oil and gas sector for providing solution designing and delivery for Microsoft Hyper-V, Clustering, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Lync Server, and System Center.

He has also been honored with the industry's most prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award in the year of 2011/2012, for his excellent contribution to the Microsoft Server Systems Technical Communities. Apart from the daily office life, Zahir is an author, public speaker, and a blogger, who owns a successful blog (http://zahirshahblog.com) focusing on Microsoft Private Cloud, Messaging, Unified Communications, and Systems Infrastructure solutions. He is also certified for CISSP, MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, and CCNA certifications.