Pro Hyper-V (eBook)

Harley Stagner graduated from ECPI Technical College with a bachelor's degree in management information systems and later graduated from Strayer University with an master's degree in business management. His industry certifications include MCSE on Windows Server 2000 and 2003, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Windows Server Virtualization. He is a seasoned IT professional who enjoys sharing his server virtualization experience through his writing. He has published many virtualization articles for SearchSystemsChannel.com, SearchServerVirtualization.com, SearchVMware.com, SearchOpenSource.com, and SearchStorage.com. He also maintains his own blogs at HarleyStagner.com and SearchMarked.com.

Contents at a Glance 5
Contents 6
About the Author 11
About the Technical Reviewers 12
Acknowledgments 13
Introduction 14
Chapter 1 Hyper-V and the Tools of the Trade 18
Getting Started with Hyper-V 18
Management Automation: PowerShell, WMI, and Other Goodies 31
Summary 39
Chapter 2 Automating Hyper-V Deployment 40
Installing WDS for HyperV 40
Configuring the WDS and DHCP Servers 43
Preparing the Hyper-V Installation Image 45
Creating Answer Files 52
Deploying the Hyper-V Image 70
Summary 72
Chapter 3 Managing Virtualization with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 73
VMM Components 74
Touring the VMM Administrator Console 90
Performing Tasks in VMM 118
Enabling PRO Tips and Reporting 153
Using the VMM Self-Service Portal 164
Summary 171
Chapter 4 Migrating Physical and Virtual Machines to Hyper-V 172
Selecting Migration Candidates 172
Migrating Physical Servers 184
Automating Migration Tasks 230
Summary 239
Chapter 5 Automating Hyper-V 241
PowerShell and WMI 241
VMM 2008 and PowerShell 281
Summary 288
Chapter 6 Monitoring Hyper-V and VM Performance 289
Using the Reliability and Performance Monitoring Tool 290
Creating a Baseline of Your Virtual Environment 296
Summary 304
Chapter 7 Creating Highly Available Hyper-V Systems 305
Server Hardware 305
Server Application Availability with Failover Clustering 307
Geographically Dispersed Clusters for Disaster Recovery 334
Summary 335
Chapter 8 Protecting Your Virtual Machines 336
Virtual Machine Backup Strategies 336
Anatomy of a Virtual Machine 337
Backing Up Virtual Machines with Hyper-V Manager 338
How the Volume Shadow Copy Service Works 346
Backing Up Virtual Machines with Windows Server Backup 347
Backing Up Virtual Machines with Data Protection Manager 2007 361
Summary 380
Chapter 9 Securing Your Virtual Infrastructure 381
Hyper-V Host Setup 381
Hyper-V Network Security 395
Summary 408
Appendix A Preview of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with Live Migration 409
Live Migration 410
PowerShell and Failover Clustering 415
Summary 417
Index 418