Index

A

• -AllowManagementOS $true / The external vSwitch
• AC
  • URL / System Center App Controller
• Active Directory domain / Advanced networking options
• Active Directory domains
  • Hyper-V hosts, using / Hyper-V hosts in Active Directory domains
• additional hosts
  • preparing / Preparing additional hosts
• address hashing / NIC Teaming
• advanced networking options
  • about / Advanced networking options
• AllowManagementOS parameter / The private vSwitch
• antivirus
  • installing, on Hyper-V host / Antivirus on a Hyper-V host
• Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) / Creating unattended installation files
• Automatic System Center deployment / Automatic System Center deployment
• Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) / Which edition to install
• Azure Site Recovery
  • about / Azure Site Recovery
  • Replica workloads / Replica workloads
• Azure Site Recovery Vault
  • URL / Azure Site Recovery
  • references / Azure Site Recovery

B

• Backup-systems
  • references / Azure Site Recovery
• basic components
  • adding / Adding basic components

C

• CAU, guest cluster
  • about / Cluster-Aware Updating
  • URL / Cluster-Aware Updating
• checkpoints
  • about / Checkpoints
  • creating / Checkpoints
  • best practices / Checkpoints
• client network / Network design for a guest cluster
• cloud management / Cloud management
  • about / Cloud management
  • for servers / Cloud management
  • for storage / Cloud management
  • for network / Cloud management
• cluster network / Network design for a guest cluster
• Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs)
  • about / Storage design
  • utilizing / Storage design
• combinations, real-world scenarios
  • about / NIC Teaming
  • Switch Independent configuration / Dynamic distribution / NIC Teaming
  • Switch Independent configuration / Address Hash distribution / NIC Teaming
• command-line interface (CLI) / Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
• Configuration Management Database (CMDB) / System Center Service Manager
• converged networking
  • about / The external vSwitch, Converged networking
• Copy Cluster Roles Wizard
  • about / The Copy Cluster Roles Wizard
• CPU instruction sets
  • URL / Hardware
• cross-version live migration
  • about / Cross-version Live Migration
• CSVs
  • about / Cluster Shared Volumes
  • enabling / Cluster Shared Volumes

D

• Datacenter Bridging (DCB) / Post-installation tasks
• Datacenter edition / Which edition to install
• data deduplication
  • about / Data deduplication
• DHCP Guard / Advanced networking options
• differencing disks / Virtual disks
• Direct Memory Access (DMA) / Single Root IO Virtualization
• Disc2VHD / Physical to Virtual conversions
• disk performance / Disk performance
• domain controllers
  • virtualizing / Virtualizing domain controllers
  • URL / Virtualizing domain controllers
• dynamic disks / Virtual disks
• Dynamic Virtual Machine Queue (D-VMQ) / Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

E

• edition, Windows Server
  • installing / Which edition to install
  • Datacenter edition / Which edition to install
• environment
  • planning / Planning your environment
• Error Checking and Correction (ECC) / Planning your environment
• Extended Page Tables (EPT) / Hardware-tuning options
• external vSwitch / The external vSwitch

F

• Failover Cluster
  • overview / Overview of the Failover Cluster
  • pre-requirements / Failover Cluster prerequirements
  • implementing / Implementing Failover Clusters
• Failover Cluster, pre-requirements
  • hardware / Hardware
  • network design / The network design
  • storage design / Storage design
  • server requirements / Server and software requirements
  • software requirements / Server and software requirements
• failover types
  • URL / Hyper-V Replica testing and failover
• Fibre Channel Infrastructure / Storage network
• first host
  • preparing / Preparing the first host
• fixed disks / Virtual disks

G

• green IT / Hyper-V power options and green IT
• guest cluster
  • network design / Network design for a guest cluster
  • storage design / Storage design for a guest cluster
  • CAU / Cluster-Aware Updating
• guest clustering
  • about / Guest clustering
• guest cluster networking / The private vSwitch
• GUI
  • managing / To GUI or not to GUI

H

• HA
  • preparing for / Preparing for High Availability
  • environment, planning / Planning a HA environment
  • Failover Cluster, overview / Overview of the Failover Cluster
  • Failover Cluster, pre-requirements / Failover Cluster prerequirements
  • Failover Cluster, implementing / Implementing Failover Clusters
  • Quorum configuration / Quorum configuration
  • Live Migration configuration / Live Migration configuration
  • guest clustering / Guest clustering
• HA environment
  • planning / Planning a HA environment
• hardware, Failover Cluster / Hardware
• hardware-tuning options
  • about / Hardware-tuning options
  • network-hardware-tuning options / Network-hardware-tuning options
• host systems
  • preparing / Preparing your host systems
• Hybrid Cloud scenario
  • URL / Azure Site Recovery
• Hyper-V
  • URL / Preparing your host systems
  • IPv6, using with / Using IPv6 with Hyper-V
  • benchmarking / Hyper-V benchmarking
  • for virtual desktops / Hyper-V for virtual desktops
• Hyper-V, for virtual desktops
  • RemoteFX, using / Using RemoteFX
• Hyper-V environment
  • protecting / Protecting a Hyper-V environment
• Hyper-V features
  • activating / Activating Hyper-V features
• Hyper-V host
  • antivirus, installing on / Antivirus on a Hyper-V host
• Hyper-V hosts
  • used, in Active Directory domains / Hyper-V hosts in Active Directory domains
  • upgrading / Upgrading single Hyper-V hosts
  • virtual machines, importing / Importing virtual machines
  • virtual machines, exporting / Exporting virtual machines
  • cross-version live migration / Cross-version Live Migration
  • Copy Cluster Roles Wizard / The Copy Cluster Roles Wizard
• Hyper-V Hypervisor Root Virtual Processor - % Total Run Time / Processor performance
• Hyper-V installation media
  • URL / Preparing your host systems
• Hyper-V management packs
  • URL / System Center Operations Manager
• Hyper-V port / NIC Teaming
• Hyper-V power options / Hyper-V power options and green IT
• Hyper-V projects
  • deploying / Why Hyper-V projects fail
• Hyper-V Replica
  • about / Hyper-V Replica
  • enabling / Enabling Hyper-V Replica
  • monitoring / Monitoring Hyper-V Replica
  • testing / Hyper-V Replica testing and failover
  • failover / Hyper-V Replica testing and failover
• Hyper-V Replica, enabling
  • first host, preparing / Preparing the first host
  • additional hosts, preparing / Preparing additional hosts
  • VM replication, activating / Activate VM replication
  • Hyper-V Replica, monitoring / Monitoring Hyper-V Replica
  • Hyper-V Replica, testing / Hyper-V Replica testing and failover
  • failover / Hyper-V Replica testing and failover
• Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • URL / Preparing your host systems
• Hyper-V Teaming properties
  • about / NIC Teaming

I

• in-place upgrade
  • about / Upgrading single Hyper-V hosts
• InfiniBand
  • about / SMB Direct
  • URL / SMB Direct
• internal vSwitch / The internal vSwitch
• IPAM
  • about / IPAM
  • URL / IPAM
• IPv6
  • used, with Hyper-V / Using IPv6 with Hyper-V
• iSCSI / Storage design for a guest cluster
• iSCSI communication
  • references / Storage network
• iSCSI target
  • about / The iSCSI target
• item level recovery (ILR) / System Center Data Protection Manager
• iWARP
  • about / SMB Direct

J

• Jumbo frames
  • about / Other offload capabilities
• just a bunch of disks (JBOD) / Storage overview

L

• LACP / NIC Teaming
• legacy network adapter / The virtual interface
• Live Migration configuration / Live Migration configuration
• Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO) / NIC Teaming
• load balancing modes
  • about / NIC Teaming
  • Hyper-V port / NIC Teaming
  • dynamic / NIC Teaming
• Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) / Storage overview
• Login VSI benchmark
  • URL / Hyper-V benchmarking

M

• MAT
  • about / Microsoft Automation Toolkit
  • URL / Microsoft Automation Toolkit, MAT powered by Project Shift
  • Project Shift, powered by / MAT powered by Project Shift
• maximum, Storage QoS / Storage Quality of Service
• memory performance
  • about / Memory performance
  • \Memory\Available Mbytes / Memory performance
  • \Memory\Pages/sec / Memory performance
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP Toolkit) / Planning your environment
• Microsoft MSDN
  • URL / Adding basic components
• Microsoft Pinpoint
  • URL / Why Hyper-V projects fail
• Microsoft System Center
  • about / Microsoft System Center
  • advantages / Microsoft System Center
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) / System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • System Center App Controller (SCAC) / System Center App Controller
  • System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) / System Center Operations Manager
  • System Center Service Manager (SM) / System Center Service Manager
  • System Center Orchestrator (SCOR) / System Center Orchestrator
  • System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) / System Center Data Protection Manager
  • Automatic System Center deployment / Automatic System Center deployment
• minimum, Storage QoS / Storage Quality of Service
• Multipath I/O (MPIO) / Post-installation tasks
  • about / Multipath I/O
  • enabling, via PowerShell / Multipath I/O
• MVMC
  • about / Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
  • URL / Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

N

• Nested Page Tables (NPT) / Hardware-tuning options
• network-hardware-tuning options
  • about / Network-hardware-tuning options
  • Receive Side Scaling (RSS) / Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
  • SR-IOV / Single Root IO Virtualization
  • other offload capabilities / Other offload capabilities
  • IPv6, used with Hyper-V / Using IPv6 with Hyper-V
• network adapters
  • first NIC / The network design
  • second NIC / The network design
  • third NIC / The network design
  • fourth NIC / The network design
  • fifth NIC / The network design
  • sixth NIC / The network design
  • legacy network adapter / The virtual interface
  • synthetic network adapter / The virtual interface
• network design, Failover Cluster / The network design
• network design, guest cluster / Network design for a guest cluster
• networking
  • about / Networking overview
  • Virtual Switch / The Virtual Switch
  • virtual interface / The virtual interface
• networking features
  • URL / The Virtual Switch
• Network Interface Card (NIC) / Preparing your host systems, Post-installation tasks
• Network Interface Cards (NICs) / The network design
• network performance
  • about / Network performance
  • \Network Interface(*)\Bytes Total/sec / Network performance
  • \Network Interface(*)\Output Queue Length / Network performance
• network types
  • client network / Network design for a guest cluster
  • cluster network / Network design for a guest cluster
  • storage network / Network design for a guest cluster
• NIC Teaming
  • about / NIC Teaming
  • modes / NIC Teaming
• NIC Teaming modes
  • switch independent / NIC Teaming
  • static Teaming / NIC Teaming
  • LACP / NIC Teaming
• NTFS
  • versus ReFS / NTFS versus Resilient File System

O

• ODX / Offloaded Data Transfer
• offloaded data transfer (ODX) / SANs versus SOFS
• OM
  • URL / System Center Operations Manager
• OM Servers
  • URL / System Center Operations Manager
• Operating System Environments (OSEs) / Which edition to install
• other offload capabilities / Other offload capabilities
• OVF format / Other V2V scenarios

P

• Pagefile
  • setting / Setting the Pagefile
• PDT
  • about / Automatic System Center deployment
  • features / Automatic System Center deployment
  • URL / Automatic System Center deployment
• Perfmon / Processor performance
• performance
  • measuring / Measuring performance
  • counter / The performance counter
• performance counter
  • about / The performance counter
  • disk performance / Disk performance
  • memory performance / Memory performance
  • network performance / Network performance
  • processor performance / Processor performance
• performance tuning
  • about / Performance tuning
  • Hyper-V power options / Hyper-V power options and green IT
  • green IT / Hyper-V power options and green IT
  • hardware-tuning options / Hardware-tuning options
  • storage-tuning options / Storage-tuning options
  • shutdown-tuning options / Shutdown-tuning options
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversions
  • about / Physical to Virtual conversions
• Physical to Virtual conversions
  • URL / Physical to Virtual conversions
• ping command / Other offload capabilities
• post-installation tasks
  • about / Post-installation tasks
• PowerShell script
  • URL / Cluster Shared Volumes
• private vSwitch / The private vSwitch
• processor performance
  • about / Processor performance
  • \Processor(*)\% Processor Time / Processor performance
  • \Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor(_Total) / Processor performance
• Project Shift
  • MAT, powered by / MAT powered by Project Shift

Q

• QoS
  • about / Storage Quality of Service
• QoS configuration
  • about / The virtual interface
• QoS settings
  • about / The virtual interface
• Quality of Service (QoS) / Networking overview, The virtual interface
• Quorum configuration / Quorum configuration

R

• RDMA
  • about / SMB Direct
• RDMA types
  • ROCE / SMB Direct
  • iWARP / SMB Direct
  • InfiniBand / SMB Direct
• Receive-Segment Coalescing (RSC) / Other offload capabilities
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS) / Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
• Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) / Backup of virtual machines
• Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) / Backup of virtual machines
• ReFS
  • versus NTFS / NTFS versus Resilient File System
• Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) / Using RemoteFX
• RemoteFX
  • using / Using RemoteFX
  • features / Using RemoteFX
• Remote Server Administrations Tools (RSAT) / To GUI or not to GUI
• Replica workloads / Replica workloads
• ROCE
  • about / SMB Direct
  • URL / SMB Direct
• Router Guard / Advanced networking options

S

• SANs
  • versus SOF / SANs versus SOFS
• SAP Hyper-V reference benchmark
  • URL / Hyper-V benchmarking
• Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) / Planning your environment, Hardware-tuning options
• self signed certificates, Hyper-V Replica
  • URL / Preparing the first host
• server requirements, Failover Cluster / Server and software requirements
• shared VHDX / Storage design for a guest cluster
• shutdown-tuning options
  • about / Shutdown-tuning options
  • shutdown timeout, setting / Setting the shutdown timeout
• shutdown timeout
  • setting / Setting the shutdown timeout
• Single Points of Failures (SPOFs) / Protecting a Hyper-V environment
• SMB Direct
  • about / SMB Direct
• SM installation
  • creating / System Center Orchestrator
  • references / System Center Orchestrator
• SOF
  • versus SANs / SANs versus SOFS
  • URL / SANs versus SOFS
• software requirements, Failover Cluster / Server and software requirements
• SQLIO
  • URL / Hyper-V benchmarking
• SR-IOV / Single Root IO Virtualization
  • URL / Single Root IO Virtualization
• static Teaming / NIC Teaming
• storage
  • about / Storage overview
• storage-tuning options
  • about / Storage-tuning options
  • ODX / Offloaded Data Transfer
• storage design, Failover Cluster / Storage design
• storage design, guest cluster
  • about / Storage design for a guest cluster
  • shared VHDX / Storage design for a guest cluster
  • Virtual Fibre Channel / Storage design for a guest cluster
  • iSCSI / Storage design for a guest cluster
  / Storage design for a guest cluster
• storage network / Network design for a guest cluster
  • about / Storage network
• storage pool
  • creating / Storage Spaces and tiering
• Storage QoS
  • about / Storage Quality of Service
• Storage QoS, types
  • minimum / Storage Quality of Service
  • maximum / Storage Quality of Service
• Storage Spaces
  • and Tiering / Storage Spaces and tiering
  • virtual disks / Virtual disks
• switch independent / NIC Teaming
• Switch Independent configuration / Address Hash distribution / NIC Teaming
• Switch Independent configuration / Dynamic distribution / NIC Teaming
• synthetic network adapter / The virtual interface
• System Center App Controller (SCAC) / System Center App Controller
  • installing / System Center App Controller
• System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) / System Center Data Protection Manager
  • installation / System Center Data Protection Manager
  • references / System Center Data Protection Manager
• System Center Operations Manager / Measuring performance
• System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) / System Center Operations Manager
• System Center Orchestrator (SCOR) / System Center Orchestrator
• System Center Service Manager (SM) / System Center Service Manager
  • URL / System Center Service Manager
  • data warehouse server, URL / System Center Service Manager
  • self-service portal, references / System Center Service Manager
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
  • about / Networking overview, System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • installing / System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • URL / System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • cloud management / Cloud management
• System Center VMM (SCVMM)
  • about / System Center VMM

T

• target server, for VDI workloads
  • Remote Desktop Connection Broker / Hyper-V for virtual desktops
  • Remote Desktop Web Access / Hyper-V for virtual desktops
  • Remote Desktop Session Host / Hyper-V for virtual desktops
• team NIC (tNIC) / NIC Teaming
• TechNet Gallery
  • URL / System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Tiering
  • and Storage Spaces / Storage Spaces and tiering
• Trim/Unmap function / Storage-tuning options

U

• unattended installation files
  • creating / Creating unattended installation files
• unmap command / Storage-tuning options

V

• V2V conversions
  • script, URL / System Center VMM
  • about / Other V2V scenarios
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit (VDI SK) / Hyper-V for virtual desktops
• virtual desktops
  • Hyper-V, used for / Hyper-V for virtual desktops
• virtual disks
  • about / Virtual disks
  • checkpoints / Checkpoints
• Virtual Fibre Channel / Storage design for a guest cluster
• virtual hard disks
  • fixed disks / Virtual disks
  • dynamic disks / Virtual disks
  • differencing disks / Virtual disks
• virtual interface / The virtual interface
• virtualization storage design
  • approaches / Storage overview
• virtual machine manager (VMM)
  • about / Cloud management
  • versus fabric management / Cloud management
• virtual machines
  • creating / Creating virtual machines
  • backup / Backup of virtual machines
  • importing / Importing virtual machines
  • exporting / Exporting virtual machines
• virtual network interfaces (VIF) / Networking overview
• Virtual Switch
  • about / The Virtual Switch
  • external vSwitch / The external vSwitch
  • internal vSwitch / The internal vSwitch
  • private vSwitch / The private vSwitch
• VMM database
  • URL / System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• VMM network management
  • URL / System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• VMM storage management
  • URL / System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• VM replication
  • activating / Activate VM replication
• VMware virtual machines
  • migrating / Migrating VMware virtual machines
  • System Center VMM (SCVMM) / System Center VMM
  • Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) / Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
  • Microsoft Automation Toolkit (MAT) / Microsoft Automation Toolkit
  • MAT, powered by Project Shift / MAT powered by Project Shift
  • V2V conversions / Other V2V scenarios
  • Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversions / Physical to Virtual conversions
  • domain controllers, virtualizing / Virtualizing domain controllers
• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) / System Center Data Protection Manager

W

• wbadmin
  • reference / Backup of virtual machines
• Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe) / Measuring performance
• Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming
  • user guide, URL / NIC Teaming
• Windows Update
  • URL / Post-installation tasks

X

• XenConvert
  • URL / Other V2V scenarios