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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

Creating resource pools


In a private cloud environment, it is common to have different servers as per department, location, areas, or even clients, as services providers, say.

To aggregate resources and make them easier to be allocated and metered, Hyper-V 3.0 introduces the resource pools.

The idea of resource pools is to put physical resources allocated to virtual systems in a pool. The resources types that can be used in Hyper-V are as follows:

  • Memory

  • Processor

  • Ethernet

  • VHD

  • ISO

  • Virtual Floppy Disks (VFD)

  • Fibre Channel Ports

  • Fibre Channel Connections

In this recipe, you will see some examples of the most common resource pools, such as storage and Ethernet pools.

Getting ready

The option to create resource pools is not enabled through the graphical interface, only via PowerShell. However, you should open PowerShell as an administrator before you start.

How to do it...

The following steps will walk you through the process of creating disk and Ethernet resource pools:

  1. Before we start to create our storage...