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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

Network controller


Microsoft has released a new feature called Network Controller with Windows Server 2016. This is a highly available and scalable service to manage Software-defined Networking from a single pane. Network Controller provides two APIs. They are as follows:

  • SouthBound API: This API enables you to detect, gather network information, and send configuration to devices such as Hyper-V virtual switches, Software load balancer, Datacenter Firewall, and Remote Access Service.

  • Northbound API: This API enables you to interact with Network Controller. Thanks to this API, you can monitor, troubleshoot, deploy, and configure new devices through PowerShell.

The Network Controller can be managed using PowerShell or using GUI with, for example, System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Network Controller is beyond the scope of this book. Just remember that you can configure Hyper-V virtual switches through Network Controller.

Network controller diagram