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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

You're reading from   Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform Get to grips with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V the easy way. This comprehensive tutorial takes you through every step of planning, designing, and implementing Hyper V with clear instructions and screenshots. The only guide you need.

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Published in Mar 2013
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ISBN-13 9781849688345
Length 410 pages
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
1. Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning, Designing, and Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V 3. Setting Up Hyper-V Replication 4. Understanding Hyper-V Networking 5. A New World of Hyper-V Automation with PowerShell 6. Insight into Hyper-V Storage 7. Managing Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 8. Building Hyper-V High Availability and Virtual Machine Mobility 9. Hyper-V Security Hardening – Best Practices 10. Performing Hyper-V Backup and Recovery SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index

Implementing NIC teaming for Hyper-V host and guest


We were introduced to load balancing and failover with NIC teaming at the beginning of this chapter, in the Load balancing and failover (NIC teaming) section. This is an important feature, so let's take a look at it in detail in this section.

Various NIC manufacturers refer to the NIC teaming solution as Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO). These manufactures have been in the market for a long time, providing NIC teaming software for their NICs. Customers buying servers have to install this NIC teaming software after setting up an operating system to create a team consisting of multiple physical NICs. This functionality has been around in the industry for some time now, and most of our critical applications and database servers are configured for NIC teaming.

NIC manufacturers provided this great functionality of making the server network capable of load balancing and failover on multiple NICs available inside the server; but on the other...

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