Pro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019: Practical Guidance and Hands-On Labs

by Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway

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 followed by chapters covering the range of management tasks associated with virtualized environments, 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



Apply practical information to administer your Hyper-V environmentsUnderstand multiple administration styles (GUI, command line, and automation)Written by IT pros for IT pros – just the information you really need without the paddingAdminister and use containersUtilize 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.

500 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2018

Reviews

[Eddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not terrible, but not great either. I think it gives a decent overall understanding of the topic, but I feel the writing is a little casual. This is for version 2019 and today is 2025, but the really the technology hasn't changed a lot, so at this point it's still pretty relevant. Would recommend.