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