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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

You're reading from   Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need.

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Published in Mar 2013
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ISBN-13 9781849688345
Length 410 pages
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
1. Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning, Designing, and Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V 3. Setting Up Hyper-V Replication 4. Understanding Hyper-V Networking 5. A New World of Hyper-V Automation with PowerShell 6. Insight into Hyper-V Storage 7. Managing Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 8. Building Hyper-V High Availability and Virtual Machine Mobility 9. Hyper-V Security Hardening – Best Practices 10. Performing Hyper-V Backup and Recovery SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index

Upgrading legacy Hyper-V servers to Windows Server 2012


In this section we will be covering the upgrading path of the existing legacy Hyper-V server operating system to the latest Windows Server 2012. Let's say in your organization you have two sets of Hyper-V servers. In the first set you have five standalone Windows Server 2008 R2 based Hyper-V hosts, and in the other set of servers, you have a five node Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V failover cluster hosts.

Now your company is planning to move forward with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V servers, to take advantage of numerous new features added into the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V version. To continue this section, we have divided this into two parts; in the first part we will see how we can upgrade the standalone Hyper-V hosts to Windows Server 2012 operating system, and in the second part we will see how to upgrade the Hyper-V cluster servers.

Upgrading Hyper-V standalone server

We will see the steps for performing the in-place upgrade of...

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