Book description
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About This Book
This book helps you gain a fresh perspective through a recipe-based approach on the new Microsoft Server 2016 Hyper-V
Over 80 recipes to help you master the administrative tasks of Hyper-V and get to grips with advanced solutions and techniques for virtualization
These hands-on advanced recipes will help you deploy, maintain, and upgrade Hyper-V virtual machines
Who This Book Is For
This book is for Hyper-V administrators who are looking to take advantage of all exciting new features that Microsoft Server 2016 Hyper-V has to offer.
What You Will Learn
Installing and managing Hyper-V Server in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server
Migrating and upgrading physical and virtual machines
Configuring network, memory, security, and auditing settings for virtual machines
High availability and disaster recovery
Saving time and money with PowerShell automation
The new features around network and nested virtualization, distributed storage QoS, Hyper-V Replica, and much more
Monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting with Hyper-V 2016 best practices
Deploying and automating multiple VMs and support Windows Hyper-V 2016 clusters through different installation methods
In Detail
Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you'll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager.
This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
This advanced-level book provides step-by-step recipes on real-world examples so you can get practical, hands-on experience of the subjects.
Table of contents
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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
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1. Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server
- Introduction
- Verifying Hyper-V requirements
- Enabling the Hyper-V role
- Installing Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, and Nano Server
- Managing a Server Core installation using sconfig
- Remotely managing a Nano Server installation
- Managing Nano Server using PowerShell
- Managing Nano Server using Server Management Tools – SMT
- Configuring Hyper-V post-installation settings
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2. Migrating and Upgrading Physical and Virtual Servers
- Introduction
- Performing an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016
- Exporting and importing virtual machines
- Migrating virtual machines and updating their Integration Services
- Migrating virtual machine using Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration
- Migrating virtual machine storage using Storage Migration
- Converting VHD files to VHDX
- Upgrading the VM configuration version
- Converting physical computers to virtual machines
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3. Managing Disk and Network Settings
- Introduction
- Creating and adding virtual hard disks
- Configuring IDE and SCSI controllers
- Configuring the Storage Quality of Service
- Configuring and adding Virtual Fibre Channel storage
- Creating resource pools
- Enabling and adding NIC teaming
- Creating and managing virtual switches
- Using advanced virtual machine network settings
- Adding and removing vmNICs
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4. Saving Time and Cost with Hyper-V Automation
- Introduction
- Creating virtual machine templates
- Learning and utilizing basic commands in PowerShell
- Using PowerShell commands for daily tasks
- Enabling and working with remote connection and administration through PowerShell
- Managing virtual machines with PowerShell Direct
- Hyper-V management and PowerShell improvements
- 5. Hyper-V Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks
- 6. Security and Delegation of Control
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7. Configuring High Availability in Hyper-V
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring block and file storage in Windows Server 2016
- Installing and configuring the Windows Failover Clustering feature
- Enabling cluster shared volumes
- Rolling cluster upgrades
- Configuring Cluster-Aware Updating for cluster nodes
- Using Live Migration in a cluster environment
- Configuring VM Priority for clustered virtual machines
- VM Load Balancing
- VM Compute Resiliency
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8. Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V
- Introduction
- Backing up Hyper-V and VMs using Windows Server Backup
- Restoring Hyper-V and VMs using Windows Server Backup
- Configuring Hyper-V Replica between three Hyper-V hosts using HTTP authentication
- Configuring Hyper-V Replica Broker for a Failover Cluster
- Configuring Hyper-V Replica to use certificate-based authentication using an Enterprise CA
- Using checkpoints in VMs
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9. Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup for Hyper-V
- Introduction
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Enabling Hyper-V virtual machines protection to Azure with Azure Site Recovery and Microsoft Azure Backup Server
- Getting ready
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How to do it...
- Step 1: Create an Azure Site Recovery vault
- Step 2: Prepare Infrastructure - Protection Goal
- Step 2: Prepare Infrastructure – Prepare Source
- Step 2: Prepare infrastructure – Prepare Target
- Step 2: Prepare infrastructure – replication settings
- Step 2: Prepare infrastructure – capacity planning
- Step 3: Replicate the application
- Step 4: Manage Recovery Plans - Create Recovery Plan
- Step 4: Manage Recovery Plans - Customize Recovery Settings
- Step 5: Run a test failover
- Step 6: Monitoring Azure Site Recovery - Jobs, Alerts and Events
- Step 6: Monitoring Azure Site Recovery - General Monitoring
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- 10. Monitoring, Tuning, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V
- A. Hyper-V Architecture and Components
- Index
Product information
- Title: Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785884313
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