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 server's 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.