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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
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Preface

Measuring performance


Before we start getting into performance tuning, it's necessary to have an understanding of the current situation. Many instances of sizing for Hyper-V setups, have seemingly been based on some random goodwill rough estimates without recognizing the current situation or future requirements. A far better approach to size Hyper-V setups relies on using the free MAP Toolkit, which you've already seen in Chapter 1, Accelerating Hyper-V Deployment. MAP collects performance counters of all the relevant components for a Hyper-V setup. As it is used to determine your Hyper-V sizing, it can be also used in the same way to create a performance baseline of your Hyper-V setup. This can also be achieved using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). If you already have SCOM in place, this tool should be preferred over MAP. Refer to Chapter 8, Management with System Center and Azure, for details.

Both tools continuously read performance counters from Hyper-V hosts and their...