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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785884313

Pages 524 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Authors (3):

Charbel Nemnom

Patrick Lownds

Leandro Carvalho

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

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Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server

2. Migrating and Upgrading Physical and Virtual Servers

3. Managing Disk and Network Settings

4. Saving Time and Cost with Hyper-V Automation

5. Hyper-V Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks

6. Security and Delegation of Control

7. Configuring High Availability in Hyper-V

8. Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V

9. Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup for Hyper-V

10. Monitoring, Tuning, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V

Hyper-V Architecture and Components

Index

Upgrading the VM configuration version

In the past, Microsoft would automatically upgrade the configuration version of the virtual machine, as part of the Hyper-V host upgrade process. However, Microsoft has now decoupled the upgrade process of the VM in Windows 2016, into a separate manual task, from the upgrade process of the host.

Note

Note, the configuration version represents the versioning of the VMs associated metadata, for example the VMs actual configuration state, any related saved state, and snapshot files.

By not automatically upgrading the configuration version, you can easily move a VM between different versions of Hyper-V. Now, if you need to move a VM bi-directionally between Windows 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016, you can.

Microsoft has committed to ensuring that if you choose not to upgrade the VMs configuration version, everything about the VM remains backwards compatible, including things like saved states and checkpoints. So what compels you to upgrade the VM configuration...

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Authors (3)

Charbel Nemnom

Charbel Nemnom is a Cloud Solutions Architect for itnetX (Switzerland) AG and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for cloud and datacenter management. He has over 17 years of professional experience in IT. He works predominantly with the most recent versions of Windows Server, System Center, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Stack. Charbel has previously contributed to several books, all of which were published by Packt. He is Microsoft-, Cisco-, and PMI- certified and holds the following credentials: MCP, MCSA, MCTS, MCITP, MCS, MCSE, CCNP, ITIL, and PMP. You can follow him on Twitter at @CharbelNemnom.

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Patrick Lownds

Patrick Lownds is a master-level solution architect working for Pointnext Advisory & Professional Services, in the Hybrid IT COE, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and is based in London, UK. He currently works with the most recent versions of Windows Server and System Center and has participated in the Windows Server, System Center, and Microsoft Azure Stack Early Adoption Program. He is a community blogger for HPE and tweets in his spare time. He can be found on Twitter as @patricklownds.

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Leandro Carvalho

Leandro Carvalho works as Microsoft specialist with products such as Windows Server, Hyper-V, Public and Private Cloud, Office 365, Security, System Center, Exchange, Sharepoint, Project Server and client systems, in addition to helping the community constantly with articles, forums, videos and lectures about his passion: Microsoft Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. He has been speaking in large events such as MMS, Teched Australia, MVP Pro Speaker Series and many others and is the author of the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook. Leandro has been working as Microsoft trainer since 2006 and has obtained the certifications Certified Ethical Hacker/MCP/MCSA+M+S/MCSE+S/MCTS/MCITP/MCT and MVP. In 2009 he received the MCT Awards Latin America Trainer of the year and since 2009 the Microsoft MVP as a Virtualisation Specialist.

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