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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

Installing and configuring an iSCSI Target server in Windows Server 2012


The disk performance and storage systems are normally one of the most expensive and important components in a server farm.

With different storage technologies such as NAS and SAN, and different methods to connect to them, such as Fibre Channel and SCSI, it becomes difficult to manage, integrate, and unify all these appliances. Windows Server 2012 makes this task much easier with the iSCSI Target server, which is now included in the operating system, giving you an easy and cheap solution for block storage.

iSCSI is a standard protocol that allows storage systems to communicate over Ethernet. It basically encapsulates all storage communication in TCP packets, allowing them to be sent over network connections. Using iSCSI Target in Windows Server 2012, you can create a unified server to add all your storage and allow other servers, either physical or virtual, to connect using a single protocol.

The benefits of using...