Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Malware Configurations I briefly touched on antivirus recommendations in previous chapters, and there are two main ...

cons. If you have great processes in place to patch your systems regularly, if they are running Server ...

Backup Planning When virtualization is used in an environment, there is often a decision to be made ...

5 . The Backup integration service for each VM tells the Hyper-V VSS writer that it is ready for a snapshot t ...

ready for a backup. If you have guest operating systems that can’t use the Hyper-V pass-through VSS capabili ...

Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Backups taken at the Hyper-V host call the VSS writers within the virt ...

The second change affects the backup application vendors, and it has no direct end- user impact at all. There ...

Defragmentation with Hyper-V On a physical system that uses hard disk drives (HDDs), it is common to ...

The final type of defragmentation is performing a defragmentation within the actual virtual machine for its filesyste ...

Free space: Free space count = 6505 Average free space size = 219.19 MB Large ...

Using Checkpoints One fairly overlooked feature of Hyper-V is the checkpoint feature, which prior to Windows Server 2012 R ...

very different from restoring an application-consistent backup. Production checkpoints are a new type of check ...

Figure 6.5 Checkpoint configuration for a VM To configure the checkpoint type using PowerShell, set the Checkpoin ...

Entire hierarchies of checkpoints can be created, and each checkpoint can be custom named, making it easy to u ...

action. What happens when you delete a checkpoint depends on where it is in the hierarchy of checkpoints and ...

Figure 6.7 Example of a checkpoint life cycle Checkpoints can also be managed from PowerShell, but the naming is ...

Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced two useful updates to checkpoints, which continue in Windows Server 2016. Fi ...

customers. Even though it’s stated in many articles never to use snapshots with domain controllers, it ...

Using Service Templates In previous chapters, I talked about the idea of virtual machine templates, which enab ...

Figure 6.9 The default tiering options for a new service template. You’ll see that a three-tier application is also ...