{"id":10961,"date":"2010-11-22T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2010-11-22T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:45:00","slug":"with-so-many-pieces-theres-lots-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10961","title":{"rendered":"With So Many Pieces, There\u2019s Lots of Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was working with a member of Microsoft Consulting Services.&#160; The consultant was here to provide input into a design I was working on for a common client.&#160; It was interesting because we work in different countries and have had different experiences, not to mention that I have the freedom to stray away from corporate doctrine (I would almost never install Server Core,for example).&#160; One thing is clear: there is no <em>one<\/em> way to deploy a Hyper-V cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it.&#160; There\u2019s storage, backup (which is tied to storage because of CSV redirected I\/O), failover clustering, and Hyper-V networking.&#160; Then add on System Center.&#160; There\u2019s a lot of parts in there that can be deployed in lots of ways.&#160; Some configurations are just best practice.&#160; Some are because of support statements.&#160; Some are because Microsoft would prefer you did it that way but we folks who have to live with the cluster can\u2019t live with that configuration.&#160; Some are to suit the client.&#160; And some are just personal preferences.<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting day because \u2026 well \u2026 I\u2019m a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088000\/\" target=\"_blank\">nerd<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wlEmoticon-smile2.png\" \/>&#160; It was interesting to explore the difference in opinions and figure out where to go with this thing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c19ee359-8af0-4a6d-b6ea-9c7b0578b886\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was working with a member of Microsoft Consulting Services.&#160; The consultant was here to provide input into a design I was working on for a common client.&#160; It was interesting because we work in different countries and have had different experiences, not to mention that I have the freedom to stray away from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;With So Many Pieces, There\u2019s Lots of Options&#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":[181,195],"class_list":["post-10961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961","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=10961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}