Learning Hyper-V
eBook - ePub

Learning Hyper-V

Vinicius R. Apolinario

Share book
  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Learning Hyper-V

Vinicius R. Apolinario

Book details
Book preview
Table of contents
Citations

Frequently asked questions

How do I cancel my subscription?
Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
Can/how do I download books?
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
What is the difference between the pricing plans?
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
What is Perlego?
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Do you support text-to-speech?
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Is Learning Hyper-V an online PDF/ePUB?
Yes, you can access Learning Hyper-V by Vinicius R. Apolinario in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Entreprise Applications. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Learning Hyper-V


Table of Contents

Learning Hyper-V
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Instant updates on new Packt books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started with Hyper-V Architecture and Components
Hypervisor architecture
Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors
Microkernel and Monolithic Type 1 Hypervisors
Hyper-V requirements and processor features
Memory configuration
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture
Dynamic memory
Dynamic memory configuration
Memory buffer
Memory weight
Smart Paging
Summary
2. Deploying Hyper-V Hosts
Considerations before installing a Hyper-V Host
Windows Server with a GUI
Enabling the Hyper-V role
Hyper-V Manager
Windows Server without a GUI
Windows Server Core
Windows Server Minimal Server Interface (MiniShell)
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) and Hyper-V Manager for Windows
Hyper-V for Windows
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
Antivirus – to be or not to be?
Hyper-V Hosts and VM Limits
Summary
3. Licensing a Virtualization Environment with Hyper-V
Licensing a virtual environment prior to Windows Server 2012
Standard and Enterprise Editions of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
Datacenter Edition of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
Licensing a virtual environment with Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
Virtualizing with Standard or Datacenter Editions
Specific scenarios with Standard Edition
Virtualization host licensing and its impacts
Licensing Windows Server VMs with other Hypervisors
Host licensing with Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V licensing with Linux VMs
Windows Client licensing on Hyper-V
Windows PCs and VDI
Company-owned Windows RT tablets
User devices inside or outside the company network
Non-Microsoft smartphone and tablet licensing for VDI
VDI licensing, RDS, and virtualization host licensing
VDI scenarios and licensing options
Summary
4. Managing Networking
Hyper-V Switch basics
Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch
Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch using PowerShell
Connecting a VM to a Virtual Switch
Advanced configuration for Hyper-V networking
Converged Networking on Hyper-V
Creating NIC Teaming
Creating a virtual NIC on the host
Bandwidth Management on Hyper-V
VM network features
Network Adapter features
Hardware Acceleration
Virtual Machine Queue
IPsec task offloading
SR-IOV
Advanced Features
MAC address
DHCP guard and Router guard
Protected network
Port mirroring
NIC Teaming
Other network implications
Policy-based QoS
Data Center Bridging
Remote Direct Memory Access
Jumbo Frame
Windows Firewall
Hyper-V Extensible Switch
Summary
5. Managing Storage
Host storage
Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD)?
RAID recommendations for virtualization
Local storage or Local disks
Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Fibre Channel (FC)
iSCSI
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Server Message Block 3 (SMB3)
Windows Server as a storage option
Windows Storage Spaces
Installing a Windows Server iSCSI Target Server
Installing a Windows Server SMB3 Server
Clustered iSCSI Target and SMB3
Other host storage implications
Virtual SAN Manager and virtual Fibre Channel adapter
4K disk
Multipath IO (MPIO)
VM storage
Physical disk or pass-through disk
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
VHD or VHDX?
Creating a virtual disk and associating it with a VM
Online VHDX Resize
Virtual disk Quality of Service (QoS)
Storage Live Migration
Summary
6. Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Templates
Virtual machine management
Generation 1 and 2 VMs
Creating and modifying a VM
Checkpoints
Virtual machine templates
Sysprepped VMs
Differencing disks
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Summary
7. Implementing High Availability
Microsoft failover cluster and Hyper-V overview
Failover cluster installation and configuration
Quorum and Node Majority
Configuring storage for Hyper-V cluster
Creating a highly available VM
Managing a highly available VM
Setting Startup Priority
Live migrating a VM
Configuring VM Monitoring
Shared VHDX
Summary
8. Implementing Live Migration and Replica
Share Nothing Live Migration
Configuring the Kerberos authentication for Live Migration
Performance options for Live Migration
Configuring Share Nothing Live Migration with PowerShell
Live migrating a VM
Move the virtual machine
Moving the VM storage
Hyper-V Replica
Configuring Hyper-V Replica
Replicating a VM
Testing Hyper-V Replica
Failing over a VM
Reversing the replication
Extended replication
Summary
9. Virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers
Active Directory virtualization concepts
Domain Controller database configuration
Time synchronization and virtual DCs
Virtual DCs and Checkpoints
Virtual DCs and Cluster service
Virtual DC cloning
Granting the source DC the permission to be cloned
Running the Get-ADDCCloningExcludedApplicationList cmdlet
Running the New-ADDCCloneConfigFile cmdlet
Creating the virtual DC clones using the export/import process
Virtual DCs and Hyper-V Replica
Summary
10. Implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VDI overview and comparison
VDI characteristics
Getting started with Microsoft VDI
Pooled and Personal VMs
Creating a Pooled VM collection
Creating a Personal VM collection
User Profile Disks
RemoteFX
Recreating the VM template
Summary
11. Protecting Your Virtualization Environment
Windows Server Backup overview
Getting started with Windows Server Backup
Incremental backups
Backing up your host and VMs
Restoring your host and VMs
Import and export VMs
Summary
Index

Learning Hyper-V

Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.
Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained...

Table of contents