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4 Dell EMC SC Series: Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices | CML1009
2.17 SC Series data reduction and Hyper-V ............................................................................................................ 26
3 SC Series snapshots and Hyper-V ............................................................................................................................ 27
3.1 SC Series Replay Manager support for Hyper-V ............................................................................................. 27
3.2 Use SC Series snapshots to recover guest VMs ............................................................................................. 27
3.2.1 Recover a guest VM on a standalone Hyper-V host ........................................................................................ 28
3.2.2 Recover a guest VM on a cluster shared volume ............................................................................................. 29
3.3 Change a cluster shared volume disk ID with Diskpart .................................................................................... 29
3.4 Use SC Series snapshots to create a test environment ................................................................................... 31
3.5 Leverage SC Series to create gold images ...................................................................................................... 32
3.5.1 Gold images and preserving balanced SC Series controllers .......................................................................... 34
3.6 SC Series snapshots and Hyper-V VM migration ............................................................................................ 36
4 Data Progression and Hyper-V .................................................................................................................................. 37
4.1 Tuning Data Progression settings for Hyper-V ................................................................................................. 37
4.1.1 Data Progression with archival data ................................................................................................................. 38
4.1.2 Data copies and migrations .............................................................................................................................. 38
5 Disk space recovery with Hyper-V ............................................................................................................................. 40
5.1 SC Series support for Trim/Unmap with Hyper-V ............................................................................................. 40
5.2 Space recovery with 2008 R2 Hyper-V ............................................................................................................ 40
6 Boot-from-SAN for Hyper-V ........................................................................................................................................ 42
6.1 Configure Hyper-V hosts to boot-from-SAN ..................................................................................................... 42
7 PowerShell integration ............................................................................................................................................... 43
7.1 Importance of PowerShell ................................................................................................................................ 43
7.2 PowerShell automation with Hyper-V and SC Series....................................................................................... 43
7.3 Best practices for PowerShell ........................................................................................................................... 44
8 Business continuity with Hyper-V and SC Series ....................................................................................................... 45
8.1 Cost/risk analysis .............................................................................................................................................. 45
8.2 Disaster recovery and disaster avoidance ....................................................................................................... 46
8.3 Live Volume with Auto Failover for Microsoft ................................................................................................... 46
8.4 Replay Manager for Hyper-V ............................................................................................................................ 46
A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 48
A.1 Related resources............................................................................................................................................. 48