Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V UnleashedUsing the Hyper-V virtualization capabilities built into Windows Server 2008, organizations can slash costs for power, space, and maintenance, and dramatically improve IT flexibility at the same time. This is the first book to offer comprehensive, independent, real-world coverage of planning, designing, implementing, and supporting Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization environments. Authored by Rand Morimoto and Jeff Guillet—top consultants of Microsoft technologies with unsurpassed experience deploying Hyper-V in enterprise organizations—this book delivers start-to-finish guidance for every facet of your virtualization initiative.
Leverage the experience from hundreds of real world implementations of Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 in your deployment of a virtualized server environment
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Contents
Whats New in HyperV | |
Understanding the Administration of Virtual Guest Sessions | |
Ensuring High Availability of a HyperV Host Server | |
Best Practices at Planning Prototyping Migrating and Deploying | |
Understanding the Existing Environment | |
Documenting the Vision and the Plan | |
Creating and Testing the Plan | |
Managing Backups Using the CommandLine Utility Wbadmin | |
Performing Management Tasks with Server Manager | |
Using CapacityAnalysis Tools | |
Optimizing the Performance of HyperV Host Servers and Guest Sessions | |
Optimizing Performance by Server Roles | |
Summary | |
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 in a HyperV Environment | |
Consoles in | |
Conducting the Migration | |
Planning Sizing and Architecting a HyperV Environment | |
Choosing Servers to Virtualize | |
Analyzing the Workload Demands of Existing Servers | |
Best Practices | |
Windows 2008 HyperV Host and Guest Installation | |
Entering the Product | |
Installing the HyperV Server Role | |
Performing Common Server Tasks with Server Core | |
Summary | |
Installing a LinuxBased Guest Operating System Session | |
Launching a HyperV Guest Session | |
Using Snapshots of Guest Operating System Sessions | |
Creating Guest Images from Existing Production and Virtual Systems | |
Administering and Maintaining HyperV Host Services | |
Managing Windows Server 2008 Remotely | |
Managing Host Server Virtual Switch and Disk Settings | |
Using Common Practices for Securing and Managing a HyperV Host Server | |
Keeping Up with Service Packs and Updates | |
Backing Up the HyperV Host and Guests | |
Who Needs VMM 2008? | |
Installing and Getting Familiar with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 | |
Installation | |
Understanding the VMM Administrator Console | |
Creating a Virtual | |
Best Practices | |
Managing User Roles | |
Deploying Virtual Machines | |
Summary | |
Choosing the Best FaultTolerance and Recovery Method | |
Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 | |
Deploying a Failover Cluster for HyperV Hosts | |
Summary | |
Using Event Viewer for Logging and Debugging | |
Performance and Reliability Monitoring | |
Setting Baseline Values | |
Common Problems Found in HyperV | |
Summary | |