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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 Spaces Direct


With Windows Server 2016, we are able to use direct-attached storage devices such as JBOD or internally to the storage nodes to create a highly available storage solution. The storage devices can be connected by either SATA, NVMe, or SAS. The storage devices can be SSD or HDD. To support the high availability, Storage Spaces Direct leverages the Failover Cluster Windows feature.

Storage spaces direct with internal disks

A minimum of two nodes is required in the cluster, but not all the Storage Spaces Direct features will be available. To use Multi-Resilient virtual disks (we will discuss it later in this chapter), you need a minimum of four nodes. If you need this feature to gain the maximal performance of this solution, I recommend that you implement at least a four-node cluster. Storage Spaces Direct supports a cluster with a maximum of 16 nodes.

Storage spaces direct leverages failover cluster and SMB protocol

Regarding the network, at least 10 GB/s network adapters...