Sybex, the publisher of Mastering Hyper-V Deployment, have posted some excerpts from the book. One of them is from Chapter 1, written by the excellent Patrick Lownds (Virtual Machine MVP from the UK). As you’ll see from the table of contents, this book is laid out kind of like a Hyper-V project plan, going from the proposal (Chapter 1), all the way through steps like assessment, Hyper-V deployment, System Center deployment, and so on:
Part I: Overview.
- Chapter 1: Proposing Virtualization: How to propose Hyper-V and virtualisation to your boss or customer.
- Chapter 2: The Architecture of Hyper-V: Understand how Hyper-V works, including Dynamic Memory (SP1 beta).
Part II: Planning.
- Chapter 3: The Project Plan: This is a project with lots of change and it needs a plan.
- Chapter 4: Assessing the Existing Infrastructure: You need to understand what you are converting into virtual machines.
- Chapter 5: Planning the Hardware Deployment: Size the infrastructure, license it, and purchase it.
Part III: Deploying Core Virtualization Technologies.
- Chapter 6: Deploying Hyper-V: Install Hyper-V.
- Chapter 7: Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Get VMM running, stock your library, enable self-service provisioning. Manage VMware and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
- Chapter 8: Virtualization Scenarios: How to design virtual machines for various roles and scales in a supported manner.
Part IV: Advanced Management.
- Chapter 9: Operations Manager 2007 R2: Get PRO configured, make use of it, alerting and reporting.
- Chapter 10: Data Protection Manager 2010: Back up your infrastrucuture in new exciting ways.
- Chapter 11: System Center Essentials 2010: More than just SCE: Hyper-V, SBS 2008 and SCE 2010 for small and medium businesses.
Part V: Additional Operations.
- Chapter 12: Security: Patching, antivirtus and where to put your Hyper-V hosts on the network.
- Chapter 13: Business Continuity: A perk of virtualisation – replicate virtual machines instead of data for more reliable DR.