This is the first book to offer comprehensive, independent, real-world coverage of planning, design, implementation, and support Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization environment. Leverage the experience of hundreds of real-world implementations of Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 in your deployment of a virtual server environment Applying best practices for planning, prototype, and deploy Hyper-V including strategies, processes,? and templates Install and configure Windows 2008 Server with Hyper-V Windows Services Provide guest operating systems ranging from Windows 2003 Server for Linux Administer Hyper-V Host Servers as standalone hosts or in multiple host environments Optimize Hyper-V Host Server and guest sessions, efficiently allocating memory, processors, disk space, and other resources to Move from basic server virtualization to a systematically managed corporate environment virtually Use Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to monitor the center of all your Hyper-V hosts and guest sessions Quickly provision new guest images wherever and Implement failover whenever you need a reliable process to overcome failures in guest sessions, host systems, or site problems Problems with both Hyper-V hosts and guest operating systems