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Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

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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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
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ISBN-13 9781782177685
Length 462 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Practical quorum guidance

It is recommended to allow the wizard to decide how to set your quorum.

For an even-node cluster, your first choice for a witness should be a cluster disk. They are commonly placed on the same physical storage as the guest machines, so it's a reasonable way to protect the cluster if it's not reachable. The virtual machine storage is likely to be unavailable as well, so it's of little consequence whether or not the cluster continues to operate.

For a file share witness to be truly useful, it should not be in a location that any cluster resource depends on. This means that it should not be on the shared storage for the cluster or any virtual machine. The file share witness is most useful in multicluster and multisite configurations. If you have a number of clusters, all of their witnesses can reside on a single file server that isn't part of any of them. For a multisite cluster, the benefit of a file share witness is that it does not require a single...

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