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Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices: Harness the power of Hyper-V 2016 to build high-performance infrastructures that suit your needs

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Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

Chapter 2. Deploying Highly Available Hyper-V Clusters

 

"Live Migration between hosts in a Hyper-V cluster is very straightforward and requires no specific configuration, apart from type and amount of simultaneous Live Migrations. If you add multiple clusters and standalone Hyper-V hosts into the mix, I strongly advise you to configure Kerberos Constrained Delegation for all hosts and clusters involved."

 
 --Hans Vredevoort - MVP Hyper-V

This chapter will guide you through the installation of Hyper-V clusters and their best-practice configuration. After installing the first Hyper-V host, it may be necessary to add another layer of availability to your virtualization services. With Failover Clusters, you get independence from hardware failures and are protected from planned or unplanned service outages.

This chapter includes the following topics:

  • Prerequirements and implementation of Failover Clusters
  • Cluster and quorum configuration
  • Live Migration and Live...

Preparing for a high availability scenario

As with every project, high availability (HA) scenario starts with a planning phase. Virtualization projects often turn up the question of additional availability for the first time in an environment. In traditional datacenters with physical server systems and local storage systems, an outage of a hardware component will affect only one server hosting one service. The source of the outage can be localized very fast and the affected parts can be replaced in a short time. Server virtualization comes with great benefits, such as improved operating efficiency and reduced hardware dependencies. However, a single component failure can impact a lot of virtualized systems at once. By adding redundant systems, these single points of failure can be avoided.

Planning an HA environment

The most important factor in whether you need a HA environment is your business requirements. You need to find out how often and how long an IT-related production service...

Overview of the failover cluster

A Hyper-V Failover Cluster consists of two or more Hyper-V Server compute nodes. Technically, it's possible to use a Failover Cluster with just one computing node; however, it will not provide any availability advantages over a standalone host and is typically only used for migration scenarios.

Note

I don't recommend you to implement a Hyper-V cluster in production without at least three nodes. A single node cluster doesn't ensure high availability. A two-node cluster is not efficient because half of the resources are dedicated to high availability.

A Failover Cluster hosts roles such as Hyper-V virtual machines on its computing nodes. If one node fails due to a hardware problem, it will no longer perform cluster heartbeat communication, even though the service interruption is almost instantly detected. The virtual machines running on that particular node are powered off immediately because of the hardware failure on their computing node. The...

Failover cluster prerequirements

To successfully implement a Hyper-V Failover Cluster, we need suitable hardware, software, permissions, and network and storage infrastructure as outlined in the following sections.

Hardware requirements

The hardware used in a Failover Cluster environment needs to be validated against the Windows Server Catalog, as we did in Chapter 1, Accelerating Hyper-V Deployment. Microsoft will only support Hyper-V clusters when all components are certified for Windows Server 2016.

The servers used to run our HA virtual machines should ideally consist of identical hardware models with identical components. It is possible, and supported, to run servers in the same cluster with different hardware components, that is, with different sizes of RAM; however, due to a higher level of complexity, this is not the best practice.

Special planning considerations are needed to address the CPU requirements of a cluster. To ensure maximum compatibility, all CPUs in a cluster should be...

Implementing failover clusters

Having prepared our Hyper-V hosts, we will now create a Failover Cluster using PowerShell. I'm assuming that your hosts are installed, the storage and network connections are prepared, and the Hyper-V role is already active utilizing up-to-date drivers and firmware on your hardware:

  1. First, we need to ensure that the server name, date, and time of our hosts are correct. Time and time zone configurations should occur via Group Policy.
  2. For automatic network configuration later on, it's important to rename the network connections from the defaults to their designated roles using PowerShell, as shown in the following commands:
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet" -NewName "Host"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet 2" -NewName
         "LiveMig"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet 3" -NewName "VMs"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name "Ethernet 4" -NewName
         "Cluster"
    Rename-NetAdapter -Name &quot...

Preparing for a high availability scenario


As with every project, high availability (HA) scenario starts with a planning phase. Virtualization projects often turn up the question of additional availability for the first time in an environment. In traditional datacenters with physical server systems and local storage systems, an outage of a hardware component will affect only one server hosting one service. The source of the outage can be localized very fast and the affected parts can be replaced in a short time. Server virtualization comes with great benefits, such as improved operating efficiency and reduced hardware dependencies. However, a single component failure can impact a lot of virtualized systems at once. By adding redundant systems, these single points of failure can be avoided.

Planning an HA environment

The most important factor in whether you need a HA environment is your business requirements. You need to find out how often and how long an IT-related production service can be...

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Key benefits

  • Design and build a reliable and efficient Hyper-V infrastructure.
  • Fine-tune your Hyper-V performance by adopting network and storage best practices.
  • Manage, monitor, and protect your workloads with System Center and Microsoft Azure.

Description

Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V provide best-in-class virtualization capabilities. Hyper-V is a Windows-based, very cost-effective virtualization solution with easy-to-use and well-known administrative consoles. This book will assist you in designing, implementing, and managing highly effective and highly available Hyper-V infrastructures. With an example-oriented approach, this book covers all the different tips and suggestions to configure Hyper-V and provides readers with real-world proven solutions. This book begins by deploying single clusters of High Availability Hyper-V systems including the new Nano Server. This is followed by steps to configure the Hyper-V infrastructure components such as storage and network. It also touches on necessary processes such as backup and disaster recovery for optimal configuration. The book does not only show you what to do and how to plan the different scenarios, but it also provides in-depth configuration options. These scalable and automated configurations are then optimized via performance tuning and central management ensuring your applications are always the best they can be.

Who is this book for?

If you are working with Hyper-V and want to optimize its performance and effectiveness, this book is for you. This book will help you close the gap between the Hyper-V lab and production environments.

What you will learn

  • Automate and accelerate the deployment of Hyper-V host and nano servers
  • Create high availability solutions using failover clustering
  • Design redundant solutions with Hyper-V Replica
  • Protect your workloads by making a backup or learning disaster recovery
  • Use the best practices of network and storage
  • Master the performance and scalability of storage virtualization
  • Migrate your existing virtualization workloads to Hyper-V2016
  • Manage your Hyper-V stack with System Center and Azure
  • Bridge the gap between the Hyper-V lab and production environment

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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
1. Accelerating Hyper-V Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Deploying Highly Available Hyper-V Clusters Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Backup and Disaster Recovery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Storage Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Network Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Highly Effective Hyper-V Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Hyper-V Performance Tuning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Management with System Center and Azure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Migration to Hyper-V 2016 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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