What this book covers

Chapter 1 , Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full or Server Core Mode, provides all the necessary information that you need to know before, during, and after the Hyper-V installation, to make sure that you can save time and solve any problems that you may face.

Chapter 2, Migrating and Upgrading Physical and Virtual Servers, covers tasks that will help you to have an easy and a successful upgrade to the new Windows and Hyper-V versions. You will see how to export and import virtual machines, convert VHD files to VHDX files, migrate virtual machine storage using Storage Migration, and so on.

Chapter 3 , Managing Disk and Network Settings, covers recipes that will help you to manage disk and network settings efficiently.

Chapter 4 , Saving Time and Cost with Hyper-V Automation, highlights the importance of PowerShell. This chapter will help you to learn and utilize basic commands in PowerShell and also to use them for daily tasks.

Chapter 5 , Hyper-V Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks, will show you some best practices for Hyper-V and how they can easily be identified and implemented. By using best practices, you can enhance performance, increase security, and improve Hyper-V administration.

Chapter 6 , Security and Delegation of Control, shows how to use configuration options such as access control using Authorization Manager and Simple Authorization, network protection with Port ACLs, and Hyper-V auditing, to enforce a safer environment for virtual and host computers.

Chapter 7 , Configuring High Availability in Hyper-V, will show you how to create an iSCSI Target server for low-cost storage, how to prepare and configure a failover cluster for Hyper-V, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), and other interesting things, to provide a high availability Hyper-V environment.

Chapter 8 , Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V, will walk you through the most important process for setting up disaster recovery for your virtual machines running on Hyper-V.

Chapter 9 , Monitoring, Tuning, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V, shows how to use the default tools in Windows Server 2012 to monitor physical and virtual servers, how to troubleshoot, and how to tune Hyper-V servers.

Appendix A, Hyper-V Architecture and Components, includes well-explained topics with the most important Hyper-V architecture components compared with other versions.