Chapter 2

Deploying Hyper-V

Virtualization brings many benefits to your business, such as increasing its flexibility, increasing its availability, and improving its cost-efficiency. You may already know that Hyper-V is strong in terms of cost, but what about features and functions? With all the improvements in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, organizations can leverage an operating system that has been built for cloud computing.

In this chapter, you’ll learn about

• What needs to be prepared for a Hyper-V deployment
• How to install and configure Hyper-V
• How to leverage some of the new features
• How a Hyper-V host can be migrated