Hyper-V Best Practices You Must Know
In a recent article published by BackupChain, 18 Hyper-V best practices were put together to ensure you have a well functioning Hyper-V server system, with focus on how to achieve good performance and efficient Hyper-V backups.
Their article addresses the following issues:
The interdependences of VSS backups in Windows and Hyper-V Options for Fine-tuning VSS The risks of using scripts for backup The frequency of backups Free disk space and other resource issues and how they interfere with Hyper-V performance and speed Dynamically expanding VHD / VHDX disks versus fixed disks considerations (also visit http://hyper-v-backup.backupchain.com/fixed-vs-dynamic-vhd-and-vhdx-performance/ for more info on this subject) Disk warnings and failures RAM issues and failure testing Hyper-V Integration Service issues (also visit http://hyper-v-backup.backupchain.com/4-things-you-need-to-know-about-hyper-v-integration-services/) Things you need to know about backup targets Disk space issues and their consequences How Updating Windows affects VMs Ideal data compression settings VM resource allocation issues NTFS compression, encryption, and Bitlocker issues
Read the full article at:
http://backupchain.com/i/18-hyper-v-and-hyper-v-backup-pitfalls-you-need-to-know