

You can manage any type of virtual machine that is supported by Hyper-V, including Windows Server, Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Windows Server 2016 Nano Server. A list of active and failed cluster tasks is also displayed through the interface. You can also perform standard maintenance tasks, such as to Pause and Resume a cluster node, which can live migrate VMs to other nodes. Using 5nine Manager you can configure your virtual disk and network settings. This Summary Dashboard can also be refocused at the Datacenter, Cluster, Host, and VM level for more refined results. It quickly identifies nodes or VMs with problems, and lists any alerts from its resources. With 5nine Manager you can specify the number of simultaneous Live Migrations and Storage Live Migrations, and even copy those settings to the other cluster nodes.ĥnine Manager has a Summary Dashboard which centrally reports the health of the cluster and its VMs.

It is important to have a dedicated network to Live Migration to ensure that its traffic does not interfere with cluster heartbeats or other important traffic. The results will provide recommendations to enhance your node’s stability and performance. In addition to testing the clustering configuration, you can also run a series of advanced Hyper-V tests on each of the hosts and Scale-Out File Servers through 5nine Manager. You can granularly select the different tests to run, and see the same graphical report as you are familiar with. With 5nine Manager you can test the health of your cluster during configuration, or afterwards as a troubleshooting tool. It will allow you to specify nodes, run Cluster Validation, provide a client access point, and then create the cluster.įailover Cluster validation is an essential task in all deployments as it is required for a support cluster. This blog provides an overview of how 5nine Manager can help you centralize management of your clustered resources.ĥnine Manager lets you discover hosts and create a Failover Cluster. I was able to bring my passion for cluster management to 5nine’s engineering team, and into 5nine’s most popular SMB product, Failover Clustering is now commonplace even amongst small and medium-sized businesses. Most organizations need continual availability for their services to run 24/7, and their customers expect it. I’ve spoken with thousands of customers and I realized that Failover Clustering is so essential to Hyper-V, that a majority of all VMs are using it, and it is businesses of all sizes that are doing this, not just enterprises.

On the Cluster Team Blog! After founding this blog and working closely with the cluster team for almost eight years, I left Microsoft last year to join a Hyper-V software partner,
