I have deployed Technical Preview 5 (TP5) of Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) to most of the hardware in my lab. One of the machines, a rather old DL380 G6, is set up as a standalone host. I\u2019m managing it using Remote Server Administration Toolkit (RSAT) for Windows 10 (another VM).<\/p>\n
I enabled Hyper-V on that host. I then deployed a 4 x Generation 2 VMs using Nano Server (domain pre-joined using .djoin files) – this keeps the footprint tiny and the boot times are crazy fast.<\/p>\n
Hyper-V is enabled in the Nano VMs – thanks to the addition of nested virtualization. I\u2019ve also clustered these machines. Networking-wise, I have given each VM 2 x vNICs, each with MAC spoofing (for nested VMs) and NIC teaming enabled.<\/p>\n
I launched PowerShell ISE then used Enter-PSSession to connect to the host from the admin PC. And from the host, I used Enter-PSSession -VMName to use PowerShell Direct to get into each VM – this gives me connectivity without depending on the network. That\u2019s because I wanted to deploy Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) and provision networking in the Nano VMs. This script configure the VMs each with 3 vNICs for the management OS, connected to the vSwitch that uses both of the Nano VMs vNICs as teamed uplinks:<\/p>\n
$idx = 54\r\n\r\nNew-VMSwitch -Name External -NetAdapterName \"Ethernet\",\"Ethernet 2\" -EnableEmbeddedTeaming $true -AllowManagementOS $false\r\n\r\nAdd-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name \"Management\" -SwitchName External\r\nAdd-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name \"SMB1\" -SwitchName External\r\nAdd-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name \"SMB2\" -SwitchName External\r\n\r\nSleep 10\r\n\r\nNew-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias \"vEthernet (Management)\" -IPAddress 172.16.2.$idx -PrefixLength 16 -DefaultGateway 172.16.1.1\r\nSet-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias \"vEthernet (Management)\" -ServerAddresses \"172.16.1.40\"\r\n\r\nNew-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias \"vEthernet (SMB1)\" -IPAddress 192.168.3.$idx -PrefixLength 24\r\nNew-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias \"vEthernet (SMB2)\" -IPAddress 192.168.4.$idx -PrefixLength 24<\/pre>\nNote: there\u2019s no mention of RDMA because I\u2019m working in a non-RDMA scenario – a test\/demo lab. Oh yes; you can learn Hyper-V, Live Migration, Failover Clustering, etc on your single PC now!<\/p>\n
And in no time, I had myself a new Hyper-V cluster with a tiny physical footprint, thanks to 4 new features in WS2016.<\/p>\n
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