The bulk of this book covers practical implementation, configuration, and maintenance operations. This introductory chapter lays the groundwork with conceptual, architectural, and engineering guidance. If you have experience with other hypervisors, then the first bit will serve as a quick refresher. After that, we talk about the reasons that a business would choose Hyper-V. An explanation of Hyper-V’s internal architecture follows. The material then explains the requirements for running Hyper-V and the operating systems that include it. The chapter closes with exercises for you to test your knowledge by planning Hyper-V deployments.