Microsoft Hyper-V cluster design / Eric Siron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siron, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

System design.

System design--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Siron Eric: Eric Siron has over 15 years of professional experience in the information technology field. He has architected solutions across the spectrum, from two-user home offices to thousand-user enterprises. He began working with Microsoft Hyper-V Server in 2010, and has focused on Microsoft Virtualization technologies ever since. He is currently employed as a senior system administrator at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. He is a regular contributor to the Hyper-V Portal blog hosted by Altaro Software. In addition to this book, he is the author of Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design, Packt Publishing, and the creator of the screencast series, Building and Managing a Virtual Environment with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, Packt Publishing.

Summary:

This book is written in a friendly and practical style with numerous tutorials centred on common as well as atypical Hyper-V cluster designs. This book also features a sample cluster design throughout to help you learn how to design a Hyper-V in a real-world scenario.Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design is perfect for the systems administrator who has a good understanding of Windows Server in an Active Directory domain and is ready to expand into a highly available virtualized environment. It only expects that you will be familiar with basic hypervisor terminology.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Hyper-V Cluster Orientation; Terminology; Clustering in a Microsoft environment; Create a project document; Purposes for a Hyper-V Server cluster; High availability; High Availability Printing; Balancing resources; Geographic dispersion; Natural replacement for aging infrastructure; Test, development, and training systems; Cloud hosting; Resource metering; VDI and RemoteFX; Be open to other purposes; Goals for a Hyper-V Server cluster

Identify the resources that cannot be virtualizedConsult with application vendors; Involve internal stakeholders; Define phases and timelines; Perform further research; Define success metrics; Measure and predict your workload; Only allow changes during the planning phase; Looking forward to the Design phase; Host computers; Storage; Cluster Shared Volumes; SMB shares; Mixing SMB 3.0 and CSV; Networking; Management; Cluster and Cluster Shared Volumes; Live Migration; Subnetting; Virtual machine traffic; Storage traffic; Physical adapter considerations; Adapter teaming; Active Directory

Virtualized domain controllersSupporting software; Management tools; Backup; Training; A sample Hyper-V Cluster planning document; Sample project title - Techstra Hyper-V Cluster Project; Sample project - purposes; Sample project - goals; Review the sample project; Summary; Chapter 2: Cluster Design and Planning; Starting the design phase; Planning for existing systems; Deciding how you will virtualize physical systems; Determining requirements for existing systems; Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit; Performance Monitor; General approaches to reading the metrics; Memory measurements

Network measurementsDisk measurements; Processor measurements; Host computer components; Hyper-V Server requirements; CPU; Memory; Host networking; Host storage; Management operating system; Hyper-V Server; Windows Server; Deciding on a management operating system; Networking; Advanced networking hardware; Shared storage; Storage area network devices; Network-attached storage devices; General purpose computers; Shared storage performance characteristics; Designing shared storage; Software licensing; Windows Server and guest virtualization rights; Software Assurance; Client access licenses

Other software licensesHyper-V and cluster-related software planning; Remote software applications; Local software applications; Blade hardware; Physical placement; Security; Domain separation; Hyper-V isolation; Network isolation; Complete the planning phase; Sample project - planning and design; Sample project - hardware; Summary; Chapter 3: Constructing a Hyper-V Server Cluster; Documenting the initial setup phase; Build steps not covered in this book; Auxiliary built-in tools; Acquiring and enabling the GUI tools; Enabling the tools on Windows 8/8.1 from the GUI

Enabling the tools on Windows Server 2012/R2 in the GUI

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 7, 2013).

ISBN:

9781782177692

1782177698

OCLC:

862050193