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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

Installing and configuring block and file storage in Windows Server 2016


Disk performance and storage systems are normally one of the most expensive and important components in a server farm.

With different storage technologies, such as NAS and SAN, and different methods to connect to them, such as Fibre Channel and SCSI, it becomes difficult to manage, integrate, and unify all these appliances. Windows Server 2016 makes this task much easier with block storage features such as the iSCSI Target Server, which was first introduced in the box in Windows Server 2012, and file storage features such as Storage Spaces, which was also first seen in Windows Server 2012 and S2D, and is now included in the Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition of the Windows Server 2016 operating system, giving you an easy and cheap solution for block and file storage.

iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) is a standard protocol that allows storage systems to communicate over Ethernet. It basically encapsulates...