9 Jan 2013 6:00 AM
The latest edition of the new Exam Ref series, Exam Ref 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 (ISBN 9780735673168) by Craig Zacker, is available for purchase. Use this book as an aid in your studies to take the Microsoft Exam 70-410.
The contents and information about the book are on this previous blog post.
Chapter 3 Configure Hyper-V (excerpt)
The concept of virtualizing servers has, in the past several years, grown from a novel
experiment to a convenient lab and testing tool to a legitimate deployment strategy for
production servers. Windows Server 2012 includes the Hyper-V role, which enables administrators
to create virtual machines (VMs), each of which runs in its own isolated environment.
VMs are self-contained units that administrators can easily move from one physical
computer to another, greatly simplifying the process of deploying network applications and
services.
This chapter covers some of the fundamental tasks that administrators perform to create
and deploy Hyper-V servers and VMs.
Objectives in this chapter:
■ Objective 3.1: Create and configure virtual machine settings
■ Objective 3.2: Create and configure virtual machine storage
■ Objective 3.3: Create and configure virtual networks
Objective 3.1: Create and configure virtual machine settings
Server virtualization in Windows Server 2012 is based on a module called a hypervisor.
Sometimes called a virtual machine monitor (VMM), the hypervisor is responsible for
abstracting the computer’s physical hardware and creating multiple virtualized hardware
environments, called VMs. Each VM has its own (virtual) hardware configuration and can
run a separate copy of an operating system (OS). Therefore, with sufficient physical hardware
and the correct licensing, a single computer running Windows Server 2012 with the
Hyper-V role installed can support multiple VMs, which administrators can manage as if
they were standalone computers.
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