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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.

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

RSS

Receive-side scaling (RSS) support was introduced in Windows Server 2008. Without RSS, processing of all incoming network packets can only be handled by a single processor at any given time. RSS overcomes by allowing multiple processors to be involved. When a new inbound stream arrives on an adapter, a CPU is selected to process the operation using a mechanism that is very similar to the way that teaming selects a physical adapter for outbound communications. Any single incoming TCP stream will be processed by only one CPU; other streams may be distributed to other processors.

If you will be storing your Hyper-V virtual machines on SMB 3.0 shares, RSS is desirable, especially if you will be employing SMB multichannel. RSS can improve the throughput of SMB 3.0 communications by as much as 10 percent.

RSS is enabled globally by default and it is recommended that you leave it. To check the status of RSS, enter the following code at a PowerShell prompt:

Get-NetOffloadGlobalSetting

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Authors (1)

Eric Siron

Eric Siron

Eric Siron has over 15 years of professional experience in the information technology field. He has architected solutions across the spectrum, from two-user home offices to thousand-user enterprises. He began working with Microsoft Hyper-V Server in 2010, and has focused on Microsoft Virtualization technologies ever since. He is currently employed as a senior system administrator at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. He is a regular contributor to the Hyper-V Portal blog hosted by Altaro Software. In addition to this book, he is the author of Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design, Packt Publishing, and the creator of the screencast series, Building and Managing a Virtual Environment with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, Packt Publishing.

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