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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

Shared storage


To provide high availability for virtual machines, shared storage is absolutely essential. Shared storage can be directly attached to your Hyper-V Server hosts or can communicate with them over a TCP/IP network, Fibre Channel (FC) interconnects, or other networks. You may utilize dedicated devices or general purpose servers to fulfill this requirement.

Storage area network devices

Storage area network (SAN) devices are considered mid-end to high-end storage components. While the term has broad and sometimes inconsistent applications in the realm of interconnected shared storage devices, it is most commonly used to refer to a singular self-contained unit. A SAN contains a bank of hard drives that can be accessed by multiple hosts. What defines a unit as a SAN is that it presents its storage at the block level, just the way that internal storage would. SAN storage devices have sophisticated capabilities beyond simply providing disk storage and I/O. Exact features will vary among...

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