Securing Hyper-V host

With server virtualization becoming more and more the norm, managing groups of Hyper-V Servers can be simplified by using VM groups. VM Groups are a new feature in Windows Server 2016 that allows you to create and use groups of servers. Server 2016 supports two different types of VM Groups: VM collection groups and management collection groups. A VM collection group is a collection of Hyper-V VMs. You can carry out tasks on the groups rather than on each individual VM. A management collection group is a collection of VM collection groups and other nested management collection groups. VM groups are especially useful for backups and for VM replication. In backup situations, a number of VMs making up a multi-tier application need to be backed up together.

In this recipe, you create a VM collection group containing two servers. Then you set the MAC addresses used by the two servers and you enable host resource protection.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes you have two servers...