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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

Enabling cluster shared volumes


Windows Server 2016 includes the distributed access file system feature CSV, which was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. When enabled, CSV allows multiple nodes to simultaneously access the same NTFS or ReFS file system, providing your cluster environment with flexibility and reliability. CSV also brings all disks in the cluster to a single location, improving access and management, and it also improves operational efficiency by increasing availability.

Since Windows 2012, CSV has been used by other Windows roles, such as file servers, and by other applications, such as SQL Server, and is no longer dedicated to Hyper-V. CSV provides the following benefits:

  • Enables all servers in a Windows Failover Cluster to access a common NTFS or ReFS volume

  • Provides a layer of abstraction above the NTFS or ReFS volume

  • Provides an application's complete abstraction with respect to which nodes actually own the logical unit number (LUN)

  • Applications can failover without...