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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

Host Resource Protection


Being able to identify a VM that is not behaving properly and consuming more host resources than it should is a challenging task. You can certainly monitor resource utilization and react to a misbehaving VM. However, proactively managing VMs at scale will prove to be a very demanding task.

This is where Host Resource Protection comes in. This feature helps to prevent a VM from using more than its share of system resources, by looking for excessive levels of activity and throttling back this misbehaving VM to lessen the impact. This monitoring and enforcement is switched off by default, and can be enabled by using Windows PowerShell.

Getting ready

Host Resource Protection is configured on the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host, and simply requires a VM, running either a Windows or Linux operating system, to monitor.

How to do it…

The following step will show you how to configure Host Resource Protection for a given Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host:

  • On the Windows Server...