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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

Enabling and adding NIC teaming to a virtual machine


In case of failure, high availability is always needed in important services to make sure they are running. A highly available environment has various components such as servers, failover cluster, storage replication, and so on. Of course, all these components need to be connected amongst themselves and that's why the network adapters need high availability in cases of failures. 75 percent of companies use highly available solutions, using solutions to aggregate two or more network adapters into a single one. This provides for load balancing and high availability. This solution is called Load Balance and Failover (LBFO), or NIC teaming and it's normally made via hardware. By using NIC teaming, you can have traffic failover and load balancing made via Windows. This prevents loss of connectivity in case of a network adapter failure, without the need for a third-party solution or a hardware component for it.

This recipe will walk through...