Successfully create and manage your Hyper-V environment without any of the marketing fluff. This book's lab-driven, hands-on approach will get you up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible. Virtualization is the cornerstone of today’s data center.  As a modern-day IT pro, you are required to manage environments that are in a regular state of flux and increasing in both size and complexity. To keep up, you need practical information in a format that is succinct, yet comprehensive and highly applicable. Pro Microsoft Hyper-V breaks down critical and time-saving topics into a series of easy-to-digest chapters, showing you how to perform Hyper-V management tasks using both GUI and PowerShell-based tools. Building on your existing knowledge of Windows Server management, Active Directory, networking, and storage, expert and Microsoft MVP Eric Siron begins with a foundation of why computing workloads are virtualized. This is followed by chapters covering the range of management tasks associated with virtualized environments, including: managing hosts and guest machines; networking, storage, and high availability (host and guest); disaster recovery and virtual machine migration; and monitoring.   What You'll Learn - Apply practical information to administer your Hyper-V environments - Understand multiple administration styles (GUI, command line, and automation) Written by IT pros for IT pros – just the information you really need without the padding - Administer and use containers - Utilize hands-on labs to learn about storage, networking, and high availability   New To This Edition - Checkpoints: automatic checkpoints, backup checkpoints - Monitoring: SCOM, CIM, third party - Security: firewall, antivirus, isolation practices, SMBchanges, virtual machine encryption - Azure Stack HCI, Windows Server Azure Edition - Management with Azure ARC - Storage: ReFS - Clustering: cluster-aware updating, dynamic processor capabilities, workgroup clusters, rolling cluster upgrades - Configuration: GPU partitioning and Direct Device Assignment - Advanced: CIM, nested virtualization Networking: Receive Segment Coalescing, Switch Embedded Teaming, Software Defined Networking