Chapter 6
Maintaining a Hyper-V Environment
Once the Hyper-V environment is deployed and virtual machines are created, it is
critical to ensure that your Hyper-V environment stays healthy, optimized, and
available. In future chapters, I dive into details on technologies such as clustering to
provide high availability, but this chapter presents key processes and technologies that
must be implemented to keep the environment running smoothly.
At some point, every environment has performance challenges, and the final part of
this chapter dives into details of troubleshooting performance problems for the four
key resources: computer, memory, network, and storage.
In this chapter, you will learn to:
Explain how backup works in a Hyper-V environment.
Identify where to use checkpoints and where not to use them.
Understand the benefits of service templates