Dell PowerVault ME5 Series: Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices

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  Overview
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  Audience
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  Revisions
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  Dell PowerVault ME5 overview
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  Microsoft Hyper-V overview
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  Best Practices Overview

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  Right-size the ME5 storage array
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  Disk groups, pools, and RAID configuration
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  Transport and front-end connectivity

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  Introduction
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  General Hyper-V best practices
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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 ME5 storage to Hyper-V hosts and VMs
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  Optimize format disk wait time for large volumes
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  Trim and unmap and for space recovery
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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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  Overview
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  Crash-consistent and application-consistent snapshots
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  Guest VM recovery with ME5 snapshots
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  Create a test environment with ME5 snapshots
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  Migrate guest VMs with ME5 storage

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  Overview
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  Clustering and Boot from SAN

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  Conclusion

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  Microsoft documentation