Windows Server 2016 Hyper Converged Networking

I can now publish the setup of my lab configuration which is almost a production platform.

Windows server 2016 hyper converged networking.

For example windows server 2012 introduced support for converged networking. Software defined networking in windows server 2016. Because you need less network adapters this design reduces the cost of the solution. A hyper converged infrastructure hci consolidates compute and storage into.

Windows server 2016 networking part 3 optimizing network settings july 13 2017 may 6 2019 darryl azure stack hci in the previous parts we ve configured our network infrastructure with dcb and set qos policies to ensure traffic bandwidth. Optionally it can also have software defined networking enabled and managed through windows admin center. Understand microsoft hyper converged solution this whitepaper is written by romain serre and charbel nemnom which describes microsoft hyper converged solution in windows server 2016 using storage spaces direct hyper v and network technologies. The converged networking functionality with windows server 2016 is one of those powerful new features that enables much more efficient and logical management of network traffic for hyper v administrators.

Windows server 2016 builds on this by allowing remote direct memory access rdma on network adapters bound to a hyper v virtual switch. Last week microsoft announced the final release of windows server 2016 the bits can be downloaded here. This lets you route network traffic through one external virtual switch. First published on msdn on sep 08 2015 one of the big hot features in windows server 2016 which has me really excited is storage spaces direct s2d.

Network convergence brings you flexibility simplicity a better cable management and quick deployment. The final leg of hci on windows server 2016 is the ability to integrate networking between compute and storage systems. The second part of this document shows an example of this implementation. Windows server 2016 hyper v includes some powerful new networking technologies and features that are found in windows server 2016.

With s2d you will be able to create a hyper converged private cloud.