<p>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. &#xa0;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.</p><p><strong><em>Pro Microsoft Hyper-V </em></strong>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, expert and Microsoft MVP Eric Siron begins with a foundation of why computing workloads are virtualized. This is followed by 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.</p><p>&#xa0;</p><p><strong>What You'll Learn</strong></p><ul> <li>Apply practical information to administer your Hyper-V environments</li> <li>Understand multiple administration styles (GUI, command line, and automation)</li> <li>Written by IT pros for IT pros – just the information you really need without the padding</li> <li>Administer and use containers</li> <li>Utilize hands-on labs to learn about storage, networking, and high availability</li></ul><p>&#xa0;</p><p><strong>Who This Book Is For</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>&#xa0;</p><p><strong>New To This Edition</strong></p><ul> <li>Checkpoints: automatic checkpoints, backup checkpoints</li> <li>Monitoring: SCOM, CIM, third party</li> <li>Migration: Compare VM, remove instructions for MSVMC but leave references (it is long out of support and may cause problems)</li> <li>Security: firewall, antivirus, domain membership, workgroup, isolated, SMB: auth rate, SMB: signing, SMB: disable NTLM, SMB: dialect control, shielded VMs replaced with Azure Confidential Computing, secure boot</li> <li>Azure Stack HCI, Azure Edition</li> <li>Management: add ARC</li> <li>Storage: ReFS</li> <li>Clustering: cluster-aware updating, dynamic processor capabilities, workgroup clusters, rolling cluster upgrades</li> <li>Configuration: GPU partitioning and Direct Device Assignment</li> <li>Advanced: CIM, nested virtualization</li> <li>Networking: Receive Segment Coalescing, Switch Embedded Teaming, Software Defined Networking</li></ul>