Hello, Cloud Gurus,
and welcome back for this brand new section
on Managing Hyper-V virtual Machines. Let's
take a look at what we're going to cover in this section.
First up, we'll do a lesson where we'll take a moment
to introduce Hyper-V.
Then we'll dive a little bit deeper
into managing Hyper-V Networking.
Next up we'll explore Hyper-V Virtual Machine Storage.
And then we'll take a moment to understand
how we can manage our Hyper-V Virtual Machines.
And then we'll wrap up this section
by taking a look at enabling nested virtualization.
But before we jump into all of those topics
there's just one more question I want to answer,
and that is why learn Hyper-V?
Now I know what some of you might be thinking,
oh, why do I have to cover this?
Come on, everyone uses VMware on-prem,
don't waste my time with this Hyper-V nonsense.
Well, let me try and convince you why Hyper-V
is worth learning.
Back in the early 2010s when everyone else
was doubling down on VMware virtualization,
I decided to take what appeared to be a career limiting path
and invested all of my learning potential in Hyper-V.
The photo shown here is one of my many home lab PCs
that I built to learn Hyper-V.
This one is over 10 years old and it still runs today.
I loaded up this PC with all of the memory I could
just so I could run more VMs and learn Hyper-V.
And a lot of people thought I was mad.
But learning Hyper-V has served me very well.
Not only have I used Hyper-V in multiple roles,
across a wide variety of businesses,
but I continue to still use Hyper-V today
when learning new operating systems.
I can easily spin up the latest version of Windows Server
or Windows Client on my laptop and test something out.
And don't forget, Azure VMs and the new Azure Stack
and Azure Stack HCI all run on Hyper-V.
So when you start to understand Hyper-V better,
you will also understand those technologies better.
So I hope you don't feel this will be
a waste of your very precious learning time,
because learning Hyper-V, at least at a very high level,
will serve you well now and into the future
on the Microsoft Hybrid Cloud.
All right, I hope I've convinced you,
let's jump into this section.