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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

General performance measurement

Baselines and ongoing performance evaluations tend to be fairly generic in nature. They can be carried out in a number of ways. You were already introduced to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) in Chapter 2, Cluster Design and Planning. This section will examine two others. The first is the free Server Performance Advisor (SPA) provided by Microsoft. The second is the Performance Monitor tool in-built in Windows operating systems.

Server Performance Advisor

This tool can be run quickly to determine the performance characteristics of a new system and on a schedule to track the performance trends of an active system.

Tip

Do not install or run Server Performance Advisor directly on a Hyper-V host or any guests that are to be measured. Doing so adds a load that will make the results inaccurate.

The following instructions can be used to quickly set up SPA to run in a basic environment. They assume that you'll be running the application with a domain...

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