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Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

You're reading from   Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices Harness the power of Hyper-V 2016 to build high-performance infrastructures that suit your needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883392
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Benedict Berger Benedict Berger
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Romain Serre Romain Serre
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Preface 1. Accelerating Hyper-V Deployment FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying Highly Available Hyper-V Clusters 3. Backup and Disaster Recovery 4. Storage Best Practices 5. Network Best Practices 6. Highly Effective Hyper-V Design 7. Hyper-V Performance Tuning 8. Management with System Center and Azure 9. Migration to Hyper-V 2016

Implementing failover clusters

Having prepared our Hyper-V hosts, we will now create a Failover Cluster using PowerShell. I'm assuming that your hosts are installed, the storage and network connections are prepared, and the Hyper-V role is already active utilizing up-to-date drivers and firmware on your hardware:

  1. First, we need to ensure that the server name, date, and time of our hosts are correct. Time and time zone configurations should occur via Group Policy.
  2. For automatic network configuration later on, it's important to rename the network connections from the defaults to their designated roles using PowerShell, as shown in the following commands:
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet" -NewName "Host"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet 2" -NewName
         "LiveMig"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet 3" -NewName "VMs"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet 4" -NewName
         "Cluster"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name &quot...
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