Chapter 13: Working with Hyper-V

Today's server administrators eat, sleep, and breathe Virtual Machines (VMs). They are flooding our computing infrastructure, quickly replacing physical servers in all facets of our technology. Thankfully, entrance into the world of virtualization is quite easy once you know which pieces of the puzzle need to work together in order to start building and hosting VMs. I have worked with many server administrators who manage the VMs themselves once they are online, but in bigger organizations, it is usually someone on the backend who is creating these VMs in the first place. This means that even someone who works with Windows servers every day might not have a lot of experience with using the Hyper-V Management Console, and this is the reason why a chapter about Hyper-V itself is important to include in this book on Windows Server 2019.

When talking about server virtualization, it is important to note the difference between a virtualization host...