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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

Working with storage

Now that you have seen the technical details of storage, it's time to become familiar with the actual operations involved with manipulating your storage.

Tip

If your storage device manufacturer included specific instructions to connect to and work with their equipment, their instructions take precedence over anything in this chapter.

Connecting to iSCSI storage

The directions here will be for connecting to standardized iSCSI targets without a specific interface, such as the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. The simplest way to connect to iSCSI storage is with the built-in GUI application, which is available on all levels of Windows Server and Hyper-V Server 2012. From a command or PowerShell prompt, run iscsicpl.exe. For a GUI installation, you can find the iSCSI Initiator under Administrative Tools. On first run, you will be greeted with the following dialog:

Click on Yes to continue. You will be presented with the following dialog box:

The default Targets tab displays all...

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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.

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Working with storage

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Connecting to iSCSI storage

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