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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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Eric Siron Eric Siron
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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

Geographically distributed clusters


As truly high-speed wide-area network (WAN) connections become more reliable and more readily available, an emerging trend is the creation of clusters that span sites. As a rule, this is something that should only be implemented after a substantial amount of consideration and planning. In most cases, creating one cluster in each site is far preferable to trying to coerce a multisite cluster to work. Remember that with Hyper-V Server 2012, you can live migrate across clusters using Shared Nothing Live Migration, so you can achieve downtime-free inter-site portability. If downtime-free is not strictly necessary, consider using Hyper-V Replica instead. This is a subject covered in Chapter 12, Backup and Disaster Recovery.

Things to consider for a geographically distributed cluster are as follows:

  • Inter-site network latency and reliability are absolutely critical. Average latency should be at or below 100 milliseconds; 60 or below is preferable.

  • Inter-site connection...

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