{"id":10940,"date":"2010-11-11T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2010-11-11T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:00:47","slug":"holistic-virhuaisation-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10940","title":{"rendered":"Holistic Virtualisation Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges I had when writing Mastering Hyper-V Deployment was choosing the ordering of the chapters. Some stuff needs to be understood before moving on. In the end I ordered it like a typical deployment. But I did make it clear that certain things needed to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I stressed was the storage. The choice of product, design, and implementation will affect what you can do, the performance, and stability. It must be considered as a central component of the entire implementation. Failure to do so will lead to project failure, maybe not today, but maybe 6-12 months down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Bound to this, because of CSV and Redirected I\/O, is backup. Host level backup will affect network performance. Huge CSVs being backed up will stress the CSV network and the CSV coordinator&#8217;s storage link. This means you need to consider sizing of CSVs and design backup protection groups accordingly. Hardware based VSS snapshots relieve this substantially.<\/p>\n<p>Virtualisation is a foundation. We don&#8217;t build the roof of a house without doing the work on what is underneath. Identify your overall server objectives, such as DR or private cloud, and then do a holistic design.\u00a0 Guess what &#8211; you&#8217;re going to have to talk to non-techies (the business) to figure out how to steer your design and to define those objects.\u00a0 Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges I had when writing Mastering Hyper-V Deployment was choosing the ordering of the chapters. Some stuff needs to be understood before moving on. In the end I ordered it like a typical deployment. But I did make it clear that certain things needed to be considered. One of the things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10940\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holistic Virtualisation Design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[55,175,181,193,195,117],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-backup","tag-dpm","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}