Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

What is interesting here is that the cluster service traffic essentially flows through the networking stack twic ...

4 . If this is a validation for what will be a new cluster, you must add all the servers that will ...

Figure 7.21 The empty Failover Cluster Manager interface ...

Figure 7.22 Cluster tests available Figure 7.23 Cluster validation in progress The validation reports are also s ...

Creating a Cluster Once the validation process has been run, the next step is to create the cluster, ...

Creating Clusters with SCVMM SCVMM can also help with clustering your Hyper-V hosts (and with Wi ...

8 . Configure the virtual networks that will be available for all cluster nodes. Click Next. 9 . On the Summary ...

Another nice feature for the cluster is the ability to view the networking details via the View Networking action, ...

Using Cluster Shared Volumes Traditionally, with a cluster that has shared storage (which means that the stor ...

as Volume—for example, C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1 for the first volume, C:\ClusterStorage\Volume2 for the next, and ...

perform I/O to the disk directly, which is the most common activity when dealing with virtual hard disks. ...

Figure 7.29 Cluster Shared Volume in redirected mode The coordinator node can be changed with minimal impact. A ...

machine workloads. In Windows Server 2012, CSV was also supported for a special type of cluster file share, ...

Windows Server 2012 R2 adds support for ReFS with CSV. However, Hyper-V virtual machines are not supporte ...

Making a Virtual Machine a Clustered Virtual Machine To create a new clustered virtual machine using Failover ...

Figure 7.31 Selecting the virtual machines to be made clustered resources If you have virtual machines th ...

Figure 7.32 Setting the high availability option for a virtual machine Once a virtual machine is clustered, ...

Live Migration Live Migration is the Hyper-V technology that enables a virtual machine to be moved between Hype ...

itself. In an ideal world, with each iteration of memory copy, the amount of data to copy will shrink as the time to copy decrea ...

Previously, I mentioned that a metric is used to prioritize the cluster networks to be used for cluster c ...