Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed

Rand Morimoto , Ph.D., MCSE, CISSP, has been in the computer industry for more than 30 years and has authored, co-authored, or been a contributing writer for dozens of bestselling books on Windows 2008, Exchange 2007, Security, BizTalk Server, and remote and mobile computing. Rand is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area that was one of the key early adopter program partners with Microsoft implementing beta versions of Windows Server 2008 in production environments over 3 years before the product release. Rand has spoken at more than 50 conferences and conventions around the world in the past year on tips, tricks, and best practices on planning, migrating, and implementing Windows 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.   Jeff Guillet, MCITP, MCSE, CISSP, has been in the computer industry for more than 25 years and has been a contributing writer and technical editor for several books on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2007, and Exchange 2003. Jeff is a senior consultant for Convergent Computing and participates in many early adopter beta programs. Jeff holds Charter MCITP: Enterprise Administrator and MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator certifications for Windows Server 2008 and has maintained MCSE certifications since 1999. He maintains a popular technical blog at www.expta.com.

Part I: Windows 2008 Hyper-V Overview       

1: Windows 2008 Hyper-V Technology Primer

2: Best Practices at Planning, Prototyping, Migrating, and Deploying Windows 2008 Hyper-V  

Part II: Windows 2008 Hyper-V Host and Guest Installation    

3: Installing Windows 2008 Server       

4: Installing and Getting Familiar with Windows Hyper-V Services        

5: Installing a Guest Session on Hyper-V          

Part III: Administering and Maintaining Hyper-V Host Services

6: Managing, Administering, and Maintaining a Hyper-V Host Server    

7: Optimizing the Hyper-V Host Server and Guest Sessions      

Part IV: System Center Virtual Machine Manager Overview     

8: System Center Virtual Machine Manager Technology Primer

9: Installing and Getting Familiar with Virtual Machine Manager

Part V: Managing Guest Sessions with Virtual Machine Manager          

10: Creating Guest Images from Existing Production and Virtual Systems          

11: Using Virtual Machine Manage for Provisioning      

12: Establishing a Failover Process for Hyper-V Guest Recovery          

13: Debugging and Problem Solving the Hyper-V Host and Guest OS