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Mastering Windows Server 2016

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Server 2016 A comprehensive and practical guide to Windows Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888908
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2016 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER 3. Core Infrastructure Services 4. Certificates in Windows Server 2016 5. Networking with Windows Server 2016 6. Enabling Your Mobile Workforce 7. Hardening and Security 8. Tiny Servers 9. Redundancy in Windows Server 2016 10. Learning PowerShell 5.0 11. Application Containers and Docker 12. Virtualizing Your Datacenter with Hyper-V Index

Managing a virtual server


We have made use of Hyper-V Manager in order to manage our virtual switches, and to create a virtual machine. This tool is all powerful when it comes to manipulating your VMs, and I find myself accessing it frequently in my daily job. Let's take a look at a few of the other things you can do from inside Hyper-V Manager, as well as discuss other methods that can be used in order to work with the new virtual machines that are being created on your Hyper-V Server.

Hyper-V Manager

As you know, Hyper-V Manager is the primary tool for managing a Hyper-V Server. It is a nice console that gives you a quick status on your virtual machines, and allows you to manage those VMs in a variety of ways. Something we did not cover, because I only have one Hyper-V Server running, is that you can manage multiple Hyper-V Servers from a single Hyper-V Manager console. Just like any MMC-style console in the Microsoft world, if you right-click on the words Hyper-V Manager near the top-left...

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