Learning Hyper-V

Vinicius R. Apolinario

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784399863
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Entreprise Applications

Learning Hyper-V

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Table of Contents

Learning Hyper-V

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

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