What is the best NIC configuration ?


imagine hyper-v server 3 running vm's...

on physical server installed 4 x nic ...

what best configuration:

1) team 4 nic's appear 1 single nic virtual switch or

2) assign 1 nic each server (1x physical + 1xvm1 + 1xvm2 + 1xvm3) ? or

3) assign 1 nic physical server , team 3 remaining virtual switch ?

 

marc

hi marc,

this tricky question , answer (it depends).

form opinion recommend teaming (although not supported microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968703 )

"since network adapter teaming provided hardware vendors, microsoft not provide support technology thru microsoft product support services."

teaming provides ha solution , prevents single point of failure. if in shoes that, assign 1 nic server management "updates, monitoring, etc" , team 2 nics vms external access gives ability not share connection management os, , make use of rest of nics other purposes dmz access or nlb between vms, iscsi san access or other needs

similar threads

optimum nic configuration in hyper-v cluster

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/winserverhyperv/thread/1b713663-dd80-4c63-a28a-e51f9919483d/

network configuration when clustering hyper v

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/winserverhyperv/thread/023680f3-fc5e-4b45-ae17-fcb12f148f1a

windows 2008 r2 hyper-v cluster nic setup

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/winserverhyperv/thread/55c91f16-323e-4962-897d-da24c85b81cd/

nic redundancy , hyper-v cluster

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/winserverhyperv/thread/a8bf73fc-9fb1-4b3b-b243-6a6480709e91

iscsi , high availabiliy switch configuration

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/winserverhyperv/thread/9f447a88-2fb0-4595-878d-ac99fd8d46cf

 



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