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 Hyper-V 2019 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, experts and Microsoft MVPs Syrewicze and Siddaway begin with a foundation of why computing workloads are virtualized. This is followedby 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

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  Apply practical information to administer your Hyper-V environments

  
  


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  Understand multiple administration styles (GUI, command line, and automation)

  
  


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  Written by IT pros for IT pros – just the information you really need without the padding

  
  


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  Administer and use containers

  
  


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  Utilize hands-on labs to learn about storage, networking, and high availability

  
  

Who This Book Is For

IT administrators tasked with implementing Hyper-V environments or migrating from VMware. IT pros joining a team that is responsible for managing Hyper-V and “lone administrators” covering the gamut in smaller organizations will also find this book indispensable.