Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Chapter 3

Managing Virtual Machines

The purpose of Hyper-V is to allow us to create and run virtual machines that will run business services. This chapter focuses on the subject of virtual machine management. You will start by looking at the processes of creating virtual machines. You will then learn how to manage the settings of virtual machines, starting with some of the basics and then delving deeper with subjects such as Dynamic Memory.

A virtual machine with no operating system or application is pretty useless. In the next part of the chapter, you will look at installing operating systems, including Windows and Linux, and deploying many virtual machines. Then you will read about the often overlooked subject of application compatibility with ...