Chapter 12

Security

Securing your Hyper-V infrastructure will be an important step to achieving reliability and stability. The steps taken can start with the placement and architecture of the Hyper-V host servers. Some choose the rather extreme step of placing them in secure networks as workgroup members. Others simply choose to place them in the normal server network and just lock down access to them.

One of the first pieces of software we place onto any Windows computer is antivirus software. We will cover the merits and risks of doing this with Hyper-V host servers. If you do choose to install antivirus software onto the parent partitions, then you will need to know exactly how to configure it. Failing to do this correctly can have massive ...

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