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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

Adapter teaming


In previous versions, many administrators chose to use teaming software provided by network adapter manufacturers. Individual roles would be placed on their own network teams. This presented three problems.

First, Microsoft does not directly support third-party teaming solutions; if a problem arose that appeared to be network-related, you would be asked to break any manufacturer teams for troubleshooting purposes. If breaking the team solved the problem, it was likely that you'd get no other answer, even if the actual problem was due to a misconfiguration and not any inherent flaw in teaming.

Second, a functional team could be inadvertently broken by a faulty driver upgrade. These problems don't always manifest in an easy-to-troubleshoot fashion, and other times they cause blue-screen loops that are difficult to correct.

The third problem is actually the worst of the three. Third-party teaming in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 meant that a great many physical adapters were required...

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