Deploying virtual servers, or virtualization, lets you make more effective use of available hardware and gives you increased productivity and flexibility, higher availability, and lower costs. Virtualization is changing the IT management landscape and system administrators need to keep up. Microsoft's virtualization offering, Hyper-V, is gaining ground against VMware and companies are making the switch to Hyper-V for cost savings and feature enhancements that Hyper-V and System Center VMM provide.

Learn Hyper-V in a Month of Lunches is a super-practical guide designed to make you immediately productive in administering Hyper-V environments. Just set aside one hour a day lunchtime would be perfect for each self-contained lesson. You'll start by gaining an understanding of why you virtualize computing workloads and what benefits come from that process. Next, you'll learn how to manage Hyper-V hosts and the associated virtual machines. Finally, you'll learn to manage networking and storage in your Hyper-V environment. Additionally, this book also teaches you how to run and manage containers directly on Hyper-V or inside of a virtual machine. By the end, you'll have the skills and knowledge to successfully manage and maintain a Hyper-V environment and its resources.