{"id":929,"date":"2012-11-05T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=929"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:06:55","slug":"hyper-v-ha-without-a-san","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/11\/hyper-v-ha-without-a-san\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP Blog Post: Hyper-V High-Availability Without a SAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 4px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a>I have mentioned before that my favorite features in Windows Server 2012 are related to improvements in the storage stack.&#160; While it might not seem as exciting as some of the many other new features, the number and types of scenarios that storage and networking improvements allow are tremendous.&#160; Best of all, these features ship \u201cin the box\u201d (that is, as part of the product itself), so no third-party tools, utilities, or drivers are required.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I recently wrote an article for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/mvpawardprogram\/\">Microsoft MVP Award Program<\/a> blog that covers some ways in which IT pros can use these features to implement high-availability and other Enterprise-level features using Windows Server 2012.&#160; Here\u2019s a brief excerpt from the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Enter Windows Server 2012: A server product that ships with all of the required ingredients to brew your own highly-available storage environment. In this post, I\u2019ll focus on the storage and high-availability-related features that ship as part of Windows Server 2012. Specifically, I\u2019ll discuss what\u2019s required to build and deploy a fault-tolerant Hyper-V deployment using only in-box features. I\u2019ll start with the configuration basics and then list higher-end features that are available for production environments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the complete post, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/#stream\/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fblogs.msdn.com%2Fb%2Fmvpawardprogram%2Frss.aspx\">Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V High-Availability without a SAN<\/a>, and feel free to post questions or comments there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned before that my favorite features in Windows Server 2012 are related to improvements in the storage stack.&#160; While it might not seem as exciting as some of the many other new features, the number and types of scenarios that storage and networking improvements allow are tremendous.&#160; Best of all, these features ship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,17,27,21,12,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-vm-management","category-ms-microsoft-hyper-v","category-vm-storage","category-virtualization","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}