Hyper-V Best Practices电子书

Hyper-V Best Practices

Table of Contents

Hyper-V Best Practices

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

2. High Availability Scenarios

Preparing for High Availability

Planning 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

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 replication

Monitoring Hyper-V Replica

Hyper-V Replica testing and failover

Azure Site Recovery

Replica workloads

Backup of virtual machines

Summary

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

5. Network Best Practices

Networking overview

The Virtual Switch

The external vSwitch

The internal vSwitch

The private vSwitch

The virtual interface

NIC Teaming

Converged networking

Storage network

SMB Direct

Advanced networking options

IPAM

Summary

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

Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

Single Root IO Virtualization

Other offload capabilities

Using IPv6 with Hyper-V

Storage-tuning options

Offloaded Data Transfer

Shutdown-tuning options

Setting the shutdown timeout

Hyper-V benchmarking

Hyper-V for virtual desktops

Using RemoteFX

Summary

7. Management with System Center

Microsoft 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

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

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Automation Toolkit

MAT powered by Project Shift

Other V2V scenarios

Physical to Virtual conversions

Virtualizing domain controllers

Summary

Index