This scenario-focused title provides concise technical guidance and insights for troubleshooting and optimizing storage with Hyper-V. Written by experienced virtualization professionals, this little book packs a lot of value into a few pages, offering a lean read with lots of real-world insights and best practices for Hyper-V storage optimization.

• Focused guide extends your knowledge and capabilities with Hyper-V storage in Windows Server 2012
• Shares hands-on insights from a team of Microsoft virtualization experts
• Provides pragmatic troubleshooting and optimization guidance from the field

The author team includes Mitch Tulloch, series editor, and various individuals at Microsoft including Support Escalation Engineers, Premier Field Engineers, and experts from Microsoft Consulting Services.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Hyper-V storage fundamentals
• Chapter 2: Storage sizing
• Chapter 3: Pass-through disks
• Chapter 4: Virtual machine snapshots
• Chapter 5: File system alignment
• Chapter 6: Virtual disk fragmentation
• Chapter 7: Migrating VHD to VHDX
• Chapter 8: Monitoring storage performance
• Chapter 9: Cluster Shared Volumes
• Chapter 10: Live Migration
• Chapter 11: Virtual Fibre Channel
• Chapter 12: Event logs
• Chapter 13: SMB storage
• Chapter 14: SMB Multichannel
• Chapter 15: Online backup
• Chapter 16: Antivirus exclusions
• Chapter 17: Windows PowerShell tips
• Chapter 18: Best Practices Analyzer
• Chapter 19: Storage Spaces
• Chapter 20: Building a demo environment