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Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

By : Eric Siron
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Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

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By: Eric Siron
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Overview of this book

This book is written in a friendly and practical style with numerous tutorials centred on common as well as atypical Hyper-V cluster designs. This book also features a sample cluster design throughout to help you learn how to design a Hyper-V in a real-world scenario.Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design is perfect for the systems administrator who has a good understanding of Windows Server in an Active Directory domain and is ready to expand into a highly available virtualized environment. It only expects that you will be familiar with basic hypervisor terminology.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Hyper-V Cluster Orientation
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1. Hyper-V Cluster Orientation
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Terminology
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Clustering in a Microsoft environment
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Create a project document
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Purposes for a Hyper-V Server cluster
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Goals for a Hyper-V Server cluster
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Looking forward to the Design phase
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A sample Hyper-V Cluster planning document
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Review the sample project
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Summary
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2. Cluster Design and Planning
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2. Cluster Design and Planning
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Starting the design phase
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Planning for existing systems
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Host computer components
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Networking
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Shared storage
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Software licensing
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Hyper-V and cluster-related software planning
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Blade hardware
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Physical placement
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Security
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Complete the planning phase
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Summary
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3. Constructing a Hyper-V Server Cluster
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3. Constructing a Hyper-V Server Cluster
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Documenting the initial setup phase
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Build steps not covered in this book
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Auxiliary built-in tools
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Acquiring and enabling the GUI tools
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Configuring nodes
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Prepare other nodes
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Building the cluster
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Cluster post-creation steps
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Summary
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4. Storage Design
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4. Storage Design
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Early storage planning
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Hyper-V Server storage space utilization
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Hyper-V Server storage performance
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Working with storage
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Placing virtual machines on storage
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Storage QoS (2012 R2 Only)
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Enhanced features
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Summary
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5. Network Design
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5. Network Design
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The Hyper-V virtual switch
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Hyper-V Server networking in a cluster
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Storage connectivity
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The virtual switch in a cluster
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Adapter teaming
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Converged fabric
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Planning the physical layout
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Firewall settings
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6. Network Traffic Shaping and Performance Enhancements
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6. Network Traffic Shaping and Performance Enhancements
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Windows Server Quality of Service
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Changing advanced settings on network adapters
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VMQ
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RSS
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RDMA
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SR-IOV
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Other hardware-assisted offloading technologies
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Virtual adapter networking control
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Practical advice for network performance design
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Further possibilities
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Summary
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7. Memory Planning and Management
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7. Memory Planning and Management
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Understanding physical memory characteristics
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Physical memory installation
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How Hyper-V Server uses memory
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Hyper-V Server and NUMA
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Virtual machine memory
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Practical virtual machine memory implementation
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Cluster memory shortages
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Summary
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8. Performance Testing and Load Balancing
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8. Performance Testing and Load Balancing
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Initial and on-going performance measurement
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General performance measurement
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Subsystem testing
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Baseline and comparative performance measures
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Cluster load balancing
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Summary
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9. Special Cases
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9. Special Cases
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Non-highly-available virtual machines in a cluster
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A cluster with only one virtual machine
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A cluster with a single host
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Virtualized domain controllers in a Hyper-V Cluster
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Storing a single virtual machine's files in different locations
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Geographically distributed clusters
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Using non-virtualized hardware in a cluster
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Pass-through disks in a cluster
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Summary
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10. Maintaining and Monitoring a Hyper-V Server Cluster
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10. Maintaining and Monitoring a Hyper-V Server Cluster
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Cluster validation
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Best Practices Analyzer for Hyper-V
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Updating Hyper-V Server hosts
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Monitoring Hyper-V Server
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Summary
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11. High Availability
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11. High Availability
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What does high availability mean?
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Creating a highly available virtual machine
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High availability beyond Hyper-V
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Migrations
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Cluster responses to failures
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Quorum
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Practical quorum guidance
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Snapshots or checkpoints
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Summary
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12. Backup and Disaster Recovery
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12. Backup and Disaster Recovery
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Knowing your risks
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Planning for disaster recovery
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Backup
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Hyper-V Replica
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Verifying your disaster recovery plan
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Summary
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Index
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Index

Chapter 2. Cluster Design and Planning

A Microsoft Hyper-V Server cluster involves many components. Designing such a cluster requires you to understand how those components operate, what they need, and how they will interact. This chapter will extend beyond the basic introductory material of Chapter 1, Hyper-V Cluster Orientation, and take a closer look at the technologies and what you will need to implement them.

By the end of this chapter, we will have covered:

  • Determining requirements of existing physical systems that will be moved into the virtual environment
  • Designing a Hyper-V Server cluster with sufficient capacity for CPU, disk, network, and memory resources
  • Planning for shared storage devices for the cluster
  • Planning networking for the cluster
  • Licensing considerations in virtualization and cluster environments
  • Deciding between 2012 and 2012 R2
  • Planning for physical placement of cluster-related equipment
  • The security considerations and options for a Hyper-V Server cluster
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