Chapter 6Maintaining a Hyper-V Environment

Once the Hyper-V environment is deployed and virtual machines are created, it is critical to ensure that your Hyper-V environment stays healthy, optimized, and available. In future chapters I will dive into details on technologies such as clustering to provide high availability, but this chapter will look at key processes and technologies that must be implemented to keep the environment running smoothly.

Every environment at some point will have performance challenges, and the final part of this chapter will dive into details of troubleshooting performance problems for the four key resources: computer, memory, network, and storage.

In this chapter, you will learn to

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