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Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785884313

Length 524 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Hyper-V

Concepts

Servers

Authors (4):

Patrick Lownds

Leandro Carvalho

Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho

Charbel Nemnom

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server FREE CHAPTER

2. Migrating and Upgrading Physical and Virtual Servers

3. Managing Disk and Network Settings

4. Saving Time and Cost with Hyper-V Automation

5. Hyper-V Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks

6. Security and Delegation of Control

7. Configuring High Availability in Hyper-V

8. Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V

9. Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup for Hyper-V

10. Monitoring, Tuning, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V

A. Hyper-V Architecture and Components

Index

Configuring the Storage Quality of Service

Introduced in Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V, storage quality of service (QoS) provides the Hyper-V administrator with the ability to specify a minimum and maximums value for I/O load associated with the virtual disk of a virtual machine.

Getting ready

Storage QoS allows you to set up reserves and limits associated with the I/O load of a virtual hard disk that is located on shared storage to ensure isolation, as well as plan and allocate resources for a given application or workload.

How to do it…

The following steps show how to configure Storage QoS for a given virtual hard disk:

To configure Storage QoS on a virtual hard disk, open Hyper-V Manager, select the virtual machine on which you want to configure this feature and click Settings in the pane on the right-hand side (or with a right-click on the VM).
By default, you can see one SCSI controller on the virtual machine settings. To enable Storage QoS, select the SCSI Controller, then select the Hard Drive...