Pro Microsoft Hyper-V : practical guidance and hands-on labs /

Successfully create and manage your Hyper-V environment without any of the marketing fluff. This book's lab-driven, hands-on approach will get you up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible. Virtualization is the cornerstone of today's data center. As a modern-day IT pro, you ar...

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Main Author: Siron, Eric (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Berkeley, CA] : Apress, [2026]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Professional and Applied Computing Series.
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Summary:Successfully create and manage your Hyper-V environment without any of the marketing fluff. This book's lab-driven, hands-on approach will get you up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible. Virtualization is the cornerstone of today's data center. As a modern-day IT pro, you are required to manage environments that are in a regular state of flux and increasing in both size and complexity. To keep up, you need practical information in a format that is succinct, yet comprehensive and highly applicable. Pro Microsoft Hyper-V breaks down critical and time-saving topics into a series of easy-to-digest chapters, showing you how to perform Hyper-V management tasks using both GUI and PowerShell-based tools. Building on your existing knowledge of Windows Server management, Active Directory, networking, and storage, expert and Microsoft MVP Eric Siron begins with a foundation of why computing workloads are virtualized. This is followed by chapters covering the range of management tasks associated with virtualized environments, including: managing hosts and guest machines; networking, storage, and high availability (host and guest); disaster recovery and virtual machine migration; and monitoring. What You'll Learn Apply practical information to administer your Hyper-V environments Understand multiple administration styles (GUI, command line, and automation) Written by IT pros for IT pros - just the information you really need without the padding Administer and use containers Utilize hands-on labs to learn about storage, networking, and high availability New To This Edition Checkpoints: automatic checkpoints, backup checkpoints Monitoring: SCOM, CIM, third party Security: firewall, antivirus, isolation practices, SMBchanges, virtual machine encryption Azure Stack HCI, Windows Server Azure Edition Management with Azure ARC Storage: ReFS Clustering: cluster-aware updating, dynamic processor capabilities, workgroup clusters, rolling cluster upgrades Configuration: GPU partitioning and Direct Device Assignment Advanced: CIM, nested virtualization Networking: Receive Segment Coalescing, Switch Embedded Teaming, Software Defined Networking.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxvii, 961 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9798868821868 (electronic bk.)