Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed

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Pearson Education, Sep 3, 2008 - Computers - 480 pages

Using 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

 

  • Implement best practices for planning, prototyping, and deploying Hyper-V—including strategies, processes, and templates
  • Install and configure Windows 2008 Server with Windows Hyper-V Services
  • Provide guest operating systems ranging from Windows 2003 Server to Linux
  • Administer Hyper-V Host Servers as standalone hosts or in multiple host environments
  • Optimize Hyper-V Host Server and guest sessions, by efficiently allocating memory, processors,
  • disk space, and other resources
  • Move from basic server virtualization to a systematically managed virtual enterprise environment
  • Use Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to centrally monitor all your Hyper-V hosts and guest sessions
  • Quickly provision new guest images wherever and whenever you need them
  • Implement reliable failover processes to overcome failures in guest sessions, host systems, or sites
  • Troubleshoot problems with both Hyper-V hosts and guest operating systems
 

Contents

Introduction
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
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About the author (2008)

Rand Morimoto, Ph.D., MCSE, CISSP, has been in the computer industry for more than 30 years and has authored, co-authored, or been a contributing writer for dozens of bestselling books on Windows 2008, Exchange 2007, Security, BizTalk Server, and remote and mobile computing. Rand is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area that was one of the key early adopter program partners with Microsoft implementing beta versions of Windows Server 2008 in production environments over 3 years before the product release. Rand has spoken at more than 50 conferences and conventions around the world in the past year on tips, tricks, and best practices on planning, migrating, and implementing Windows 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

 

Jeff Guillet, MCITP, MCSE, CISSP, has been in the computer industry for more than 25 years and has been a contributing writer and technical editor for several books on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2007, and Exchange 2003. Jeff is a senior consultant for Convergent Computing and participates in many early adopter beta programs. Jeff holds Charter MCITP: Enterprise Administrator and MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator certifications for Windows Server 2008 and has maintained MCSE certifications since 1999. He maintains a popular technical blog at www.expta.com.

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