Dell PowerStore: Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices

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  Overview
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  Audience
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  PowerStore overview
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  Hyper-V overview
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  Best practices overview
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  Terminology

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  Correctly size the PowerStore storage appliance
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  Initial storage configuration
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  Transport and front-end connectivity

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  Introduction
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  General best practices for Hyper-V
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  Cluster validation
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  Guest VM integration services
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  Hyper-V guest VM generations
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  Virtual hard disks
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  Hyper-V checkpoints
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  Present PowerStore storage to Hyper-V hosts and VMs
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  Transport options
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  MPIO best practices
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  Guest VMs and block storage options
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  Virtual Fibre Channel
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  PowerStore storage and Hyper-V clusters
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  Volume design considerations for PowerStore storage
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  TRIM/UNMAP and disk space recovery
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  ODX
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  ReFS
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  Disable automount
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  Placement of page files
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  Resiliency of essential services
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  Queue depth best practices for Hyper-V

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  PowerStore host groups
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  PowerStore volume groups
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  Consistent LUN IDs
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  PowerStore data reduction and Hyper-V
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  Data encryption
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  Intuitive names

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  Introduction
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  Snapshots and thin clones
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  Application consistency with snapshots
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  Use PowerStore snapshots to recover guest VMs
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  Change a disk ID with diskpart
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  Use PowerStore snapshots to create a test environment
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  Use PowerStore to create a gold image
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  Move or migrate a VM on PowerStore

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  Overview
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  Cost and risk analysis
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  Disaster recovery and disaster avoidance

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  Summary

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  Microsoft documentation