Installing and Managing Hyper-V Integration Services — A Short Guide

Quick Bites

• Hyper-V Integration Services enhance Virtual machine performance
• Integration Services are included with Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, and above, providing features like VSS, Data Exchange, Heartbeat, Guest shutdown, etc
• Installing or updating Integration Services is important for optimal performance of virtual machines running on Hyper-V hosts
• Even with running Hyper-V Integration Services on your guest virtual machines, you still need to pay attention to your data. Backups play a key role in your overall data protection strategy for Hyper-V

Introduction

Many best practices exist for managing, administering, and configuring a Microsoft Hyper-V environment.

Windows Server Hyper-V is an enterprise-grade virtualization platform that allows hosting business-critical workloads in a highly available, and resilient platform. When looking at key components of Hyper-V to ensure the guest virtual machines perform as expected, Hyper-V administrators must give proper attention to the Hyper-V Integration Services.

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