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Networking All-in-One For Dummies, 7th Edition
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Networking All-in-One For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Doug Lowe
April 2018
Beginner
992 pages
23h 11m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Hyper-V

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Introducing Hyper-V

check Working with Hyper-V Manager

check Creating a virtual network to support your virtual machines

check Creating virtual machines in Hyper-V

Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that comes as a standard part of all versions of Windows Server since version 2008 and all versions of desktop Windows since Windows 8.

On server versions of Windows, Hyper-V provides an enterprise-grade true Type-1 hypervisor that can manage huge virtualization farms with thousands of virtual machines. The version of Hyper-V that comes with desktop Windows is called Client Hyper-V. Client Hyper-V uses the same Type-1 hypervisor as the server-grade Hyper-V. However, it doesn’t have the same enterprise-level management capabilities, because it’s intended for use on client computers, not for production servers.

In this chapter, I first explain some of the details of how Hyper-V works. Then I show you how to set up virtual machines using the client version of Hyper-V. That way, you can build your own virtual machines to experiment with Hyper-V without the need for expensive ...

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