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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

Placing virtual machines on storage

The final task you need to learn is placing virtual machines on storage. This is done at creation time and when moving a virtual machine. By default, Hyper-V will try to place virtual machines on internal storage at a local location that is not cluster-accessible. You can override this on each usage, or you can modify the default settings. In Hyper-V Manager, right-click on a node and choose Hyper-V Settings…. The first two tabs, Virtual Hard Disks and Virtual Machines, hold the default locations. The other location are as follows:

For CSVs, target locations will be C:\ClusterStorage\CSVName
For non-CSV cluster disks, indicate the drive letter
For SMB 3.0 shares, enter the UNC

It is critical that all of a virtual machine's storage files be placed on shared storage, or Live Migration and other cluster operations will fail. If you need to relocate them, right-click on any virtual machine in Failover Cluster Manager, go to Move, and click on Virtual Machine Storage...

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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.

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