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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

Networking

Networking in a Hyper-V Server cluster can be very confusing for newcomers. A clustered Hyper-V Server host requires a large number of distinct network connections in comparison to most other computing system deployments. The traffic types were covered in Chapter 1, Hyper-V Cluster Orientation. For review, they are given as follows:

Management
Live Migration
Cluster and Cluster Shared Volumes
Virtual machine
Storage (unless using direct-attached)

The recommended setup is to use at least a one-gigabit adapter for each of the above. If you won't be using Cluster Shared Volumes, then you can skip having a dedicated adapter for cluster communications. The pathways to iSCSI, SMB 3.0, and Fibre Channel benefit from the redundancy of multiple adapters, and most storage can leverage multi-path I/O (MPIO) to aggregate bandwidth. Be aware that it is common to overestimate the amount of bandwidth that storage systems actually require. Keep this in mind if you are considering using more than two...

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