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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

IPAM


One of my most favorite features in Windows Server 2016 is the IP address management (IPAM) module. It's very simple and quick to use, but also very effective.

When you need a static IP address for a newly created virtual machine, from where do you obtain it? Ping a random address and see whether it times out? Check the DNS server for records? Check the DHCP leases and reservations or an outdated Excel file? All of these are common processes, but there is still a chance of failure and use of those IP addresses which are already in use.

IPAM offers a dynamic version of the Excel list. It periodically scans your DNS and DHCP Servers to document all the taken IP addresses and offers the next real free IP address that you can use for your new VM, and have it documented automatically.

I do not know of a way to configure IPAM completely through PowerShell, so I recommend that you follow the guide available at http://bit.ly/1qgEw1R.

IPAM