What this book covers
Chapter 1, Accelerate Hyper-V Deployment, starts with pointing out the ideal installation method of Hyper-V hosts and then goes on to introduce automatic VM models.
Chapter 2, High Availability Scenarios, covers the creation of a Hyper-V Failover Cluster and configuration of its best practices.
Chapter 3, Backup and Disaster Recovery, starts with the backup methods of Hyper-V hosts and VMs, and continues with Hyper-V Replica as a disaster recovery component in Hyper-V.
Chapter 4, Storage Best Practices, details the different storage scenarios possible with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V.
Chapter 5, Network Best Practices, covers the different network virtualization scenarios possible with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V.
Chapter 6, Hyper-V Performance Tuning, explains the fundamentals of performance management and tuning in Hyper-V.
Chapter 7, Management with System Center, describes the management of Windows Server with Hyper-V through various System Center components.
Chapter 8, Migration to Hyper-V 2012 R2, covers the migration to Hyper-V 2012 R2 from other hypervisors or earlier Hyper-V versions.