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Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

By : Romain Serre, Benedict Berger
Book Image

Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

By: Romain Serre, Benedict Berger

Overview of this book

Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V provide best-in-class virtualization capabilities. Hyper-V is a Windows-based, very cost-effective virtualization solution with easy-to-use and well-known administrative consoles. This book will assist you in designing, implementing, and managing highly effective and highly available Hyper-V infrastructures. With an example-oriented approach, this book covers all the different tips and suggestions to configure Hyper-V and provides readers with real-world proven solutions. This book begins by deploying single clusters of High Availability Hyper-V systems including the new Nano Server. This is followed by steps to configure the Hyper-V infrastructure components such as storage and network. It also touches on necessary processes such as backup and disaster recovery for optimal configuration. The book does not only show you what to do and how to plan the different scenarios, but it also provides in-depth configuration options. These scalable and automated configurations are then optimized via performance tuning and central management ensuring your applications are always the best they can be.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Storage overview


Storage for Hyper-V is not primarily about capacity; it is about performance. Stop thinking in terms of capacities such as gigabytes and terabytes of data and calculate in IOPS from now on when Hyper-V Storage options are on the table. Of course, you still need to make sure there is enough capacity available. However, these typically neither influence the design nor the costs on a larger scale since high capacity hard drives are available for a very low price. There are very different approaches for a virtualization storage design.

In older versions of Windows Server and other virtualization products, a NAS system for smaller environments and enterprise-grade SAN systems were used as a storage backend. With a Fibre Channel or iSCSI connection to the Virtualization Server Systems, it provides a central storage for all nodes in a cluster, ensuring capabilities such as VM live migration and Cluster Failover.

The loss of cluster nodes does not impact the integrity and availability...