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Article 6 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for v2025 series. This article covers security and identity: what Credential Guard, VBS, and HVCI being on by default actually mean for cluster operations, the SMB hardening changes in 2025 (signing required, authentication rate limiter, SMB over QUIC in all editions), Delegated
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Article 5 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for v2025 series. This article covers patching strategy: Cluster Aware Updating, hotpatching via Azure Arc, and the cluster OS rolling upgrade path from 2019 or 2022 to 2025. Patching is where clusters get hurt most often; the operational discipline you bring to
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Article 4 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for v2025 series. Articles 1 through 3 covered cluster sizing, networking, and storage. This article covers live migration: how it actually works, what the three transport options really do, the WS2025 changes that matter (Credential Guard breaking CredSSP, dynamic processor compatibility, GPU-P
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Article 3 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for v2025 series. Article 1 covered the design pillars. Article 2 covered networking. This article covers storage architecture, which is the decision that shapes everything else. Pick SAN and you inherit one operational model. Pick Storage Spaces Direct and you inherit a
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Article 2 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for v2025 series. Article 1 covered sizing, CSV, quorum, and fault domains, and explicitly punted on networking. This is that article. Network roles, teaming, RDMA, Network ATC, bandwidth control, and the design choices that decide whether your cluster network ages well or