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You're reading from Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design To achieve a Windows Server system that virtually takes care of itself, you need to master Hyper-V cluster design. This book is the perfect tutorial on the subject, providing clear instruction on expanding into the virtualized environment.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782177685

Length 462 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Hyper-V

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Eric Siron

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Hyper-V Cluster Orientation FREE CHAPTER

2. Cluster Design and Planning

3. Constructing a Hyper-V Server Cluster

4. Storage Design

5. Network Design

6. Network Traffic Shaping and Performance Enhancements

7. Memory Planning and Management

8. Performance Testing and Load Balancing

9. Special Cases

10. Maintaining and Monitoring a Hyper-V Server Cluster

11. High Availability

12. Backup and Disaster Recovery

Index

Virtual adapter networking control

A few traffic control and shaping technologies are specific to virtual adapters, or are handled differently than on their physical counterparts. All of these settings are parameters of the Set-VMNetworkAdapter cmdlet.

IPSec offloading can also be enabled on individual virtual adapters. There is a checkbox in the GUI in the same location as the VMQ and SR-IOV settings (see the VMQ section for navigation instructions and a screenshot). It can be changed for any virtual adapter using the IPsecOffloadMaximumSecurityAssociation parameter of the Set-VMNetworkAdapter cmdlet.

Applications and guest operating systems have the ability to assign 802.1p tags to their traffic. You can instruct the host operating system to respect these tags with the IeeePriorityTag parameter. If it is set to On, tags will be allowed; if Off, they will be ignored. Tagged packets will be handled according to the system's QoS policies and/or DCB settings.

By setting the DhcpGuard parameter...

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You're reading from Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design To achieve a Windows Server system that virtually takes care of itself, you need to master Hyper-V cluster design. This book is the perfect tutorial on the subject, providing clear instruction on expanding into the virtualized environment.

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