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Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices

You're reading from   Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices Harness the power of Hyper-V 2016 to build high-performance infrastructures that suit your needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883392
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Benedict Berger Benedict Berger
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Romain Serre Romain Serre
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Preface 1. Accelerating Hyper-V Deployment 2. Deploying Highly Available Hyper-V Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. Backup and Disaster Recovery 4. Storage Best Practices 5. Network Best Practices 6. Highly Effective Hyper-V Design 7. Hyper-V Performance Tuning 8. Management with System Center and Azure 9. Migration to Hyper-V 2016

Storage overview


Storage for Hyper-V is not primarily about capacity; it is about performance. Stop thinking in terms of capacities such as gigabytes and terabytes of data and calculate in IOPS from now on when Hyper-V Storage options are on the table. Of course, you still need to make sure there is enough capacity available. However, these typically neither influence the design nor the costs on a larger scale since high capacity hard drives are available for a very low price. There are very different approaches for a virtualization storage design.

In older versions of Windows Server and other virtualization products, a NAS system for smaller environments and enterprise-grade SAN systems were used as a storage backend. With a Fibre Channel or iSCSI connection to the Virtualization Server Systems, it provides a central storage for all nodes in a cluster, ensuring capabilities such as VM live migration and Cluster Failover.

The loss of cluster nodes does not impact the integrity and availability...

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