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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

Configuring and adding Virtual Fibre Channel storage


Fibre Channel (FC) is one of the most common network technologies used primarily for storage connections. It's the perfect choice for high-speed connections between the servers and the storage, and its common place in physical server scenarios.

Since Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, it has been possible to add Fibre Channel network adapters to virtual machines, providing the same capabilities and high performance as a physical server, allowing the guest operating system to be used in clustered environments, for example, this recipe will show how to create the Fibre Channel SANs and add them to a VM.

Getting ready

Before you create the Fibre Channel SANs, make sure that a Fibre Channel HBA is installed and that the HBA ports are enabled on the physical computer. Plus, it is important to ensure that the Fibre Channel HBA is running an up to date version of firmware and that the HBA itself provides support for Virtual Fibre Channel via N_Port ID...