This guide explains how to deploy Microsoft Hyper-V as a hypervisor role on Windows Server 2008, manage the virtual infrastructure with Windows Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, automate tasks, monitor performance, and protect virtual machines. Step-by-step instructions help navigate the wizards for creating templates for common virtual machine images, editing virtual hard disks, migrating physical servers to virtual servers, creating clusters, scheduling the server backup, and selecting recovery points. B&w screenshots are provided. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)