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Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices
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NetApp best practices cover important new features of Microsoft HyperV as well as lessons learned from numerous deployments. Learn how to configure networks, set appropriate iGroups and LUN types, avoid alignment problems, and configure CSVs.

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NetApp has been involved with hundreds of Hyper-V deployments and has developed a detailed body of best practices for Hyper-V deployments on NetApp. Tech OnTap asked me to highlight the top five best practices for Hyper-V on NetApp, with special attention to the recently released Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.

  • Network configuration
  • Setting the correct iGroup and LUN protocol type
  • Virtual machine disk alignment
  • Using cluster shared volumes (CSVs)
  • Getting the most from NetApp storage software and tools

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