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Author Berger, Benedict, author

Title Hyper-V best practices : equip yourselves with the real-world configurations and best practices of Hyper-V to take full advantage of its virtualization capabilities / Benedict Berger
Published Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Professional expertise distilled
Professional expertise distilled.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Accelerate Hyper-V Deployment; Why Hyper-V projects fail; Planning your environment; Preparing your host systems; Creating unattended installation files; Adding basic components; Which edition to install; To GUI or not to GUI; Hyper-V hosts in Active Directory domains; Activating Hyper-V features; Post-installation tasks; Antivirus on a Hyper-V host; Setting the Pagefile; Creating virtual machines; Summary; Chapter 2: High Availability Scenarios
Preparing for High AvailabilityPlanning a HA environment; Overview of the Failover Cluster; Failover Cluster prerequirements; Hardware; The network design; Storage design; Server and software requirements; Implementing Failover Clusters; Quorum configuration; Live Migration configuration; Guest clustering; Network design for a guest cluster; Storage design for a guest cluster; Cluster-Aware Updating; Summary; Chapter 3: Backup and Disaster Recovery; Protecting a Hyper-V environment; Hyper-V Replica; Enabling Hyper-V Replica; Preparing the first host; Preparing additional hosts
Activate VM replicationMonitoring Hyper-V Replica; Hyper-V Replica testing and failover; Azure Site Recovery; Replica workloads; Backup of virtual machines; Summary; Chapter 4: Storage Best Practices ; Storage overview; SANs versus SOFS; Storage Spaces and tiering; Virtual disks; Checkpoints; Multipath I/O; Cluster Shared Volumes; Data deduplication; Storage Quality of Service; NTFS versus Resilient File System; The iSCSI target; Summary; Chapter 5: Network Best Practices; Networking overview; The Virtual Switch; The external vSwitch; The internal vSwitch; The private vSwitch
The virtual interfaceNIC Teaming; Converged networking; Storage network; SMB Direct; Advanced networking options; IPAM; Summary; Chapter 6: Hyper-V Performance Tuning; Measuring performance; The performance counter; Disk performance; Memory performance; Network performance; Processor performance; Performance tuning; Hyper-V power options and green IT; Hardware-tuning options; Network-hardware-tuning options; Storage-tuning options; Offloaded Data Transfer; Shutdown-tuning options; Setting the shutdown timeout; Hyper-V benchmarking; Hyper-V for virtual desktops; Using RemoteFX; Summary
Chapter 7: Management with System CenterMicrosoft System Center; System Center Virtual Machine Manager; Cloud management; System Center App Controller; System Center Operations Manager; System Center Service Manager; System Center Orchestrator; System Center Data Protection Manager; Automatic System Center deployment; Summary; Chapter 8: Migration to Hyper-V 2012 R2; Upgrading single Hyper-V hosts; Importing virtual machines; Exporting virtual machines; Cross-version Live Migration; The Copy Cluster Roles Wizard; Migrating VMware virtual machines; System Center VMM
Summary This book is intended for those who already have some basic experience with Hyper-V and now want to gain additional capabilities and knowledge of Hyper-V.If you have used Hyper-V in a lab environment before and now want to close the knowledge gap to transfer your Hyper-V environment to production, this is the book for you!
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed December 17, 2014)
SUBJECT Microsoft Windows server. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99003751
Microsoft Windows server Hyper-V. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008048180
Microsoft Windows server fast
Microsoft Windows server Hyper-V fast
Subject Virtual computer systems.
COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
COMPUTERS -- Virtual Worlds.
Virtual computer systems
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782176107
1782176101
1782176098
9781782176091
Other Titles Equip yourselves with the real-world configurations and best practices of Hyper-V to take full advantage of its virtualization capabilities