Chapter 6. Configuring SBS in Hyper-V

Hyper-V is Microsoft’s hypervisor-based, native Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization solution. Virtualization is one way to simplify and consolidate your Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 server hardware. Using virtualization for your SBS network can be a cost-effective solution that provides an excellent end-user experience while also enabling improved disaster recovery and ease of management. However, virtualization is simply a tool, and one you should choose when it solves a business problem.

When we wrote the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Administrator’s Companion, virtualization was a tiny fraction of the market and almost exclusively the province of very large organizations. Microsoft ...

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