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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Configuring the Storage Quality of Service


Introduced in Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V, storage quality of service (QoS) provides the Hyper-V administrator with the ability to specify a minimum and maximums value for I/O load associated with the virtual disk of a virtual machine.

Getting ready

Storage QoS allows you to set up reserves and limits associated with the I/O load of a virtual hard disk that is located on shared storage to ensure isolation, as well as plan and allocate resources for a given application or workload.

How to do it…

The following steps show how to configure Storage QoS for a given virtual hard disk:

  1. To configure Storage QoS on a virtual hard disk, open Hyper-V Manager, select the virtual machine on which you want to configure this feature and click Settings in the pane on the right-hand side (or with a right-click on the VM).

  2. By default, you can see one SCSI controller on the virtual machine settings. To enable Storage QoS, select the SCSI Controller, then select the Hard Drive...