Chapter 1. Accelerating Hyper-V Deployment

 

"Based on my slogan 'Keep It Smart and Simple (K.I.S.S.),' the planning phase is essential for a successful implementation of a Hyper-V environment."

 
 --Andreas Baumgarten - MVP System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management

This chapter provides an overview of how to automate the installation of the best practice Hyper-V host and its first running virtual machines (VMs). You will learn how to create unattended installations of Hyper-V with minimal effort. All the examples shown in this chapter are proven real-world best practice ones.

This chapter includes the following topics:

  • Planning the Hyper-V host
  • Unattended installation of Hyper-V through XML files
  • Rapid deployment of virtual machines
  • Nano Server

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