Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform. Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need - Ebook - ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH - Modern learning platform

E-book details

Log in, If you're interested in the contents of the item.

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform. Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need

ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH

Ebook

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
- Table of Contents
- Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
- Credits
- 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
- Introduction
  - What is virtualization?
  - Why virtualization?
  - Types of virtualization
    - Server virtualization
    - Network virtualization
    - Storage virtualization
  - Server consolidation
  - Cloud computing
- 1. Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V
  - Introducing Hyper-V
  - Hyper-V deployment scenario
    - Server consolidation
    - Physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual conversions
    - Research and development
    - Business continuity and disaster recovery
    - Cloud computing
  - Hyper-V architecture
    - Hypervisor
      - Type 1 (bare metal) hypervisors
      - Type 2 (hosted) hypervisors
      - Monolithic hypervisors
      - Microkernel hypervisors
    - Insight into Hyper-V architecture
      - Parent partition
      - Child partition
      - Understanding Hyper-V parent partition
  - Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service
    - Virtual devices
      - Core devices (emulated devices)
      - Core devices (synthetic devices)
      - Plugin devices
      - Virtual machine bus
  - Features of Hyper-V
    - Hyper-V automation with PowerShell
    - Hyper-V dynamic memory improvements
    - Improved network virtualization and multitenancy
    - Hyper-V data offloading improvements
    - Hyper-V virtual machine replication
    - Resource metering for Hyper-V virtual workloads
    - Hyper-V support for large-sector disks
    - Virtual Fibre Channel for fabric connectivity
    - New virtual hard disk format
    - NIC teaming for host and guest machines
    - Hyper-V virtual switch improvements
    - Scalable virtualization infrastructure
    - Live storage migration
    - Hyper-V support for SMB
  - Hardware requirements
    - Processor
    - Storage
      - Disk types
        
        SATA disks
        
        SAS disks
        
        Fibre Channel disks
      - Memory
      - Networking
  - Software requirements
    - Operating system version
    - Memory
    - Disk space
      - Physical servers paging file requirements
      - Guest virtual machine's paging file requirements
  - Hyper-V version comparison
  - Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 guest VM support
    - Guest server operating systems
    - Guest client operating systems
  - Licensing
  - Summary
- 2. Planning, Designing, and Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V
  - Planning and designing Hyper-V infrastructure
    - Microsoft Solution Accelerators
    - Hyper-V infrastructure planning and designing solution accelerators
  - Upgrading legacy Hyper-V servers to Windows Server 2012
    - Upgrading Hyper-V standalone server
    - Upgrading Hyper-V cluster servers
  - Installing Hyper-V server role
    - Hyper-V server role installation requirements
    - Installing a fresh Hyper-V server
      - Server Manager
      - Installing Hyper-V role using Server Manager
    - Installing Hyper-V with Windows Server Core
      - Introducing Windows Server Core
      - Benefits of using Windows Server Core Edition
      - Installing and managing Windows Server Core
      - Configuring and managing Windows Server 2012 Server Core
      - Adding Hyper-V server role for Windows Server Core
  - Configuring basic settings for Hyper-V server role
    - Hyper-V settings
      - Virtual hard disks
      - Virtual machines
      - Physical GPUs
      - NUMA spanning
      - Live migrations
      - Storage migrations
      - Replication configuration
    - Virtual Switch Manager
      - Creating a virtual machine
        
        Memory
        
        Processor
        
        Hard drive
  - Summary
- 3. Setting Up Hyper-V Replication
  - Introducing Hyper-V replication
    - Hyper-V Replica terminologies
  - Software requirements
  - Hardware requirements
  - Deployment scenario for Hyper-V Replica
    - Head office and branch office
    - Geographically dispersed datacenters
    - Managed services and hosting provider
    - Cloud service provider
  - Technical overview of the Hyper-V Replica feature
    - Replication Engine
    - Change tracking
    - Network module
    - Hyper-V Replica broker
  - Hyper-V Replica best practices
    - Security
    - Networking
    - Storage
  - Setting up Hyper-V Replica
    - Enabling Hyper-V replication
      - Enabling Hyper-V replication for standalone Hyper-V servers
      - Enabling Hyper-V replication for clustered Hyper-V servers
    - Configuring Hyper-V Replica
      - Configuring Hyper-V Replica for standalone virtual machines
      - Configuring Hyper-V Replica for a highly available virtual machine using Failover Cluster Manager
        
        Hyper-V Failover Replication broker architecture
      - Configuring Hyper-V Replica for reverse replication
  - Monitoring Hyper-V Replica environment
    - Hyper-V virtual machine replication health checking
      - Performance monitoring for Hyper-V Replica virtual machines
      - Reviewing Microsoft Hyper-V VMMS logs for Hyper-V Replica
  - Summary
- 4. Understanding Hyper-V Networking
  - Hyper-V virtual switch technical overview
  - Windows Server 2012 a cloud-ready platform
  - Improved Hyper-V virtual network switch
    - Load balancing and failover (NIC teaming)
    - Quality of service and bandwidth management
    - Single root I/O
    - Extensible Hyper-V virtual switch
    - ARP/ND poisoning (spoofing) protection
    - DHCP guard
    - Port access control lists (ACLs)
    - Trunk mode to a VM
    - Network traffic monitoring
  - Configuring the Hyper-V extensible virtual network switch
    - Configuring the Hyper-V host virtual network switch
      - Types of Hyper-V virtual network switches
        
        External
        
        Internal
        
        Private
    - Configuring Hyper-V virtual machine network settings
      - Virtual network adapter types
        
        Synthetic network adapter
        
        Legacy network adapter
      - Configuring advanced network settings
        
        Bandwidth management
        
        Hardware acceleration
        
        Virtual machine queue
        
        IPSEC task offloading
        
        Single root I/O virtualization
        
        Failover TCP/IP
        
        Advanced features of the virtual machine network adapter
        
        MAC address spoofing
        
        DHCP guard
        
        Router guard
        
        Port mirroring
        
        NIC teaming
  - Implementing NIC teaming for Hyper-V host and guest
    - Native OS NIC teaming feature the most awaited feature
    - NIC teaming requirements
    - NIC teaming architectural consideration
  - Configuring NIC teaming for the Hyper-V host
    - NIC teaming advanced settings
      - NIC teaming mode
        
        Switch independent
        
        Switch dependent
        
        Static teaming
        
        Dynamic teaming
      - Load-balancing mechanisms
        
        Address hash
        
        Hyper-V port
    - Configuring NIC teaming for Hyper-V guest virtual machines
  - Summary
- 5. A New World of Hyper-V Automation with PowerShell
  - Introduction to PowerShell
    - Technical overview
    - Cmdlets
    - Cmdlets pipelining
    - PowerShell scripting
    - PowerShell Version 3.0 overview
  - Insight into Windows Server 2012 PowerShell (3.0)
    - PowerShell OS support
    - System requirements
      - Windows Management Instrumentation 3.0
      - Common Language Runtime 4.0
      - .NET Framework
      - WS-Management 3.0
    - Installing PowerShell 3.0
  - Managing Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V with PowerShell 3.0
    - PowerShell usage scenarios for Hyper-V management and automation
      - Research and development environments
      - Virtualized datacenter management
      - Cloud management and automation
  - Windows PowerShell 3.0 capabilities for Hyper-V
    - Example 1 creating a new virtual machine
    - Example 2 creating a new virtual network switch
    - Example 3 configuring and attaching a virtual network switch to a virtual machine
    - Example 4 shutting down all virtual machines
    - Example 5 starting all virtual machines in one step
  - Summary
- 6. Insight into Hyper-V Storage
  - Understanding virtual storage
  - Improved Hyper-V storage
    - Virtual Fibre Channel connectivity for virtual machines
    - Working of Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel
    - Larger virtual hard disk support (up to 64 TB)
    - SMB-based virtual machine storage
    - Virtual machine live storage migration
  - Types of Hyper-V virtual storage
    - Virtual disk formats
      - Virtual hard disk (VHD)
      - Virtual hard disk (VHDX)
    - Virtual disk types
      - Dynamic disk
      - Fixed disk
      - Differencing disk
      - Pass-through disk
      - Virtual Fibre Channel SAN
  - Virtual machine storage settings
    - Virtual machine hard disk settings
      - IDE controller
      - SCSI controller
    - Hyper-V virtual hard disk utilities
      - Edit disk
        
        Compact
        
        Convert
        
        Expand
      - Inspect disk
  - Hyper-V storage best practices
    - Dynamic disks are not good candidates for high disk I/O activity
    - Differencing disks can lead to data loss
    - Creating a production virtual machine's snapshot with caution
    - Pass-through disks are recommended for databases
    - Frequently merging a virtual machine's snapshot
    - Including virtual machine RAM for storage sizing
    - External storage migration and Hyper-V pass-through disk availability for VM
    - Virtual machine application and server role placement best practices
  - Summary
- 7. Managing Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  - Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
    - The VMM management server
    - The VMM console
    - Self-Service Portal
    - The VMM database
    - The VMM library
  - What's new in SCVMM 2012
  - Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
    - System and hardware requirements
      - System requirements
      - Hardware requirements
    - Installing SCVMM management server, management console, and Self-Service Portal server
  - Configuring SCVMM basic settings
    - Creating and managing host groups
      - Creating a host group
      - Customizing host group properties
        
        General
        
        Placement Rules
        
        Host Reserves
        
        Dynamic Optimization
        
        Network
        
        Storage
        
        Custom Properties
    - Adding a Hyper-V host into SCVMM
    - Creating and managing private cloud with SCVMM
      - Assigning a cloud to a group of users
  - Creating a virtual machine using the SCVMM console
    - Creating a virtual machine template
  - Access to Self-Service Portal
    - Delegation of SSP rights
    - Creating and managing virtual machines with SSP
  - Summary
- 8. Building Hyper-V High Availability and Virtual Machine Mobility
  - Overview of Hyper-V high availability
    - Challenges in Hyper-V high availability with Windows Server 2008 R2
      - Unavailability of flexible virtual machine storage migration
      - Restrictions on adding more Hyper-V cluster nodes
      - Virtual machine live migration limitation
      - Manual patch management for Hyper-V host nodes
      - Network-attached storage (NAS) or File Server-based storage for virtual machines
    - What's new in Windows Server 2012 for Hyper-V HA and VM mobility
      - Guest machine clustering capabilities with V-Fibre Channel
      - Enhanced live migration for mobility of virtual machines
      - Bigger clusters with more Hyper-V nodes
      - Up-to-date Cluster Shared Volumes and encrypted volumes
      - Virtual machine failover and management rules
  - Understanding Hyper-V high availability and failover clustering core components
    - Server hardware
    - Cluster storage
      - Windows failover cluster shared storage
      - Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
        
        How CSV works
        
        Summary of new features added in Windows Server 2012 CSV
        
        CSV requirements
        
        Server requirements
        
        Networking requirements
        
        Storage requirements
    - Cluster networking
      - Hyper-V Cluster Public Network
      - Hyper-V Cluster Private Network
      - Hyper-V Live Migration Network
  - Preparing, creating, and configuring a Hyper-V failover cluster
    - Preparing Hyper-V failover cluster nodes
      - Preparing cluster nodes
        
        Installing the Windows Failover Clustering feature
        
        Installing the Hyper-V role
      - Preparing Hyper-V failover cluster networks
        
        Creating a cluster public network as a Hyper-V virtual network switch
        
        Creating an external Hyper-V virtual switch as a cluster public network
        
        Configuring cluster private and live migration networks
        
        Configuring external SAN storage connectivity
      - Preparing Hyper-V failover cluster disks
    - Creating a Hyper-V failover cluster
      - Cluster configuration validation
        
        Cluster validation requirement for cluster support
        
        Enhanced Windows Server 2012 cluster validation utility
        
        Performing cluster validation tests
      - Creating a Hyper-V failover cluster
    - Configuring a Hyper-V failover cluster
    - Adding CSV storage
      - Creating a highly available virtual machine
      - Creating Hyper-V replica broker cluster resources
  - Managing virtual machine mobility and migration
    - Virtual machine live migration
      - Working of live migration
      - Requirements for live migration
        
        Enabling live migration on a Hyper-V server
      - Live migration with shared storage
      - Shared nothing live migration
      - Live migration with SMB shared storage
    - Virtual machine quick migration
      - How quick migration works
      - Steps to perform quick migration
    - Live storage migration
  - Summary
- 9. Hyper-V Security Hardening Best Practices
  - Hyper-V and virtualization security pillars
    - Securing Hyper-V base operating system
      - Minimizing attack surfaces
      - Hyper-V management network isolation
      - Patch management
      - Antivirus protection and exclusions
      - Best Practice Analyzer for Hyper-V host
    - Securing Hyper-V virtual network switch
      - ARP spoofing protection
      - DHCP Guard
      - Router Guard
      - Port mirroring
      - Port ACL for network isolation
    - Delegating rights for Hyper-V management
      - Authorization Manager
        
        Authorization Manager for Hyper-V delegation of authority
      - Hyper-V delegation of authority with SCVMM 2012
    - Securing virtual machine storage
      - Specifying the default path for virtual machine storage
      - Encrypting virtual machine storage with BitLocker
    - Safeguarding guest virtual machines
      - Filesystem security for accessing virtual machines
      - Auditing for virtual machine resource access
      - Backing up virtual machines
  - Summary
- 10. Performing Hyper-V Backup and Recovery
  - Hyper-V backup methodologies overview
    - Copying VHD/VHDX files
    - Exporting the virtual machine
    - Virtual machine snapshot
    - The Windows Server Backup feature
    - VSS-aware Hyper-V backups
      - Virtual machine online backups using Hyper-V integration services
      - Virtual machine save-state backups without Hyper-V integration services
  - Hyper-V backup considerations and best practices
    - Hyper-V backup networking considerations
    - Hyper-V backup software considerations
      - Hyper-V integration services
    - Storage considerations
      - Guest virtual machine storage
  - Implementing Hyper-V virtual machine backup and recovery
    - Hyper-V backup and recovery with the Windows Server Backup feature
      - What's new in Windows Server 2012 for the Windows Server Backup feature
        
        Selective backup and restoration of individual virtual machines
        
        Backup support for CSVs
        
        Larger disk volume backup possibility
        
        Backup retention and backup versioning
      - Installing the Windows Server 2012 Backup feature
      - Configuring virtual machine backups with the Windows Server Backup feature
      - Performing virtual machine recovery using the Windows Server Backup feature
    - Hyper-V backup and recovery with System Center Data Protection Manager
      - DPM technical overview
      - What's new in System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager
      - Setting up DPM base infrastructure
        
        Installing System Center Data Protection Manager 2012
        
        Adding disks in the Data Protection Manager for disk-based protection groups
        
        Installing a DPM agent on a Hyper-V host
      - Configuring Hyper-V backup with DPM protection groups
        
        Protecting Hyper-V highly available virtual machines
        
        Protecting Hyper-V standalone virtual machines using SMB storage
        
        Protecting Windows Server 2012 CSV 2.0
      - Performing Hyper-V recovery with System Center Data Protection Manager
        
        Recovering a virtual machine to an original location
        
        Recovering a virtual machine to an alternate location
        
        ILR of a virtual machine
  - Summary
- A. SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
- B. SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
- Index

Title: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform. Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need
Author: ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
Original title: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform. Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need.
ISBN: 9781849688352, 9781849688352
Date of issue: 2013-03-25
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3d1c
Publisher: Packt Publishing

select a language

Categories

E-book details