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Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

By : Romain Serre, Benedict Berger
Book Image

Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

By: Romain Serre, Benedict Berger

Overview of this book

Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V provide best-in-class virtualization capabilities. Hyper-V is a Windows-based, very cost-effective virtualization solution with easy-to-use and well-known administrative consoles. This book will assist you in designing, implementing, and managing highly effective and highly available Hyper-V infrastructures. With an example-oriented approach, this book covers all the different tips and suggestions to configure Hyper-V and provides readers with real-world proven solutions. This book begins by deploying single clusters of High Availability Hyper-V systems including the new Nano Server. This is followed by steps to configure the Hyper-V infrastructure components such as storage and network. It also touches on necessary processes such as backup and disaster recovery for optimal configuration. The book does not only show you what to do and how to plan the different scenarios, but it also provides in-depth configuration options. These scalable and automated configurations are then optimized via performance tuning and central management ensuring your applications are always the best they can be.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Advanced networking options


After configuring our converged fabric, it's now time to take a look at more advanced networking configuration options in Hyper-V. To take the level of network virtualization even further, it's possible to run virtual machines with the same IP addresses on the same network without causing conflicts.

The techniques used for this are mainly NVGRE for encapsulation and an NVGRE gateway for outside communication. These are great options, but not commonly needed. Stay away from these settings until you really need to use them. Since uncommon options are not the focus of this book, refer to http://bit.ly/Ud5WXq for details.

A far more common option is the use of DHCP Guard. Having a Roque DHCP Server on the network can very quickly become a very ugly problem for nearly every production environment. A Windows DHCP Server in an Active Directory Domain must be authorized until it starts broadcasting DHCP offers. In other topologies, nothing else stops Roque DHCP Servers...