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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

Rolling cluster upgrades

Rolling Cluster Upgrades is a new feature in Windows Server 2016 that enables you to upgrade the operating system of your cluster nodes from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016, without the need to stop the underlying Hyper-V workloads or services.

There are a number of benefits to this approach. It does not require any additional hardware to upgrade, although you can add additional nodes temporarily to the cluster to provide some additional availability during the upgrade process. Failover clusters running Hyper-V virtual machine workloads can be upgraded from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016, without incurring any downtime, that is, the cluster does not need to be stopped or restarted to perform the upgrade procedure.

A new cluster running in parallel is not required. The existing cluster is upgraded a node at a time in a round-robin fashion. In addition, existing cluster objects stored in Active Directory are leveraged. In fact, the upgrade...

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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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