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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By : Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By: Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Virtualization has proved that it can help organizations to reduce costs, and the Private Cloud has created a revolution in the way we manage and control our servers with centralization and elasticity. The new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V release from Microsoft comes with a myriad of improvements in areas such as mobility, high availability and elasticity, bringing everything you need to create, manage and build the core components of a Microsoft Private Cloud for virtualized workloads."Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is the perfect accompaniment for Hyper-V administrators looking to take advantage of all the exciting new features the release has to offer. Through practical recipes, you'll master Hyper-V deployment, migration and management. "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is an essential resource for any Hyper-V administrator looking to migrate, install and manage their virtual machine efficiently. With all the features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V covered, you will learn everything from installation to disaster recovery, security, high availability, configuration, automation, architecture and monitoring, all in a practical recipe format. The book also includes new features such as Storage and Shared Nothing Live Migration, Hyper-V Replica and Network Virtualization and much more.With "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" in hand, you'll be equipped to manage your Private Cloud with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Migrating virtual machines using Shared Nothing Live Migration


Mobility! That's the word that comes up when talking about Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. On previous versions of Hyper-V, the Live Migration was introduced as a feature that allows you to move virtual machines from one node to another in a cluster with no downtime. It basically moves the virtual machine memory and the VM configuration from one node to another and switches the server access to the storage. It is handy when you need to run any maintenance task on the host server or in case of scalability, for example. The only problem was the dependency of a shared storage in a cluster environment.

Although Live Migration still exists on Windows Server 2012 with lots of improvements, Hyper-V 2012 can now move any running virtual machine from one server to another and the only requirement is a network connection, simple as that. There is no need for clustered environments to move your VMs across your servers. For a cloud infrastructure...