Advanced Networking

Windows Server 2012 is changing how we design networking for servers, and particularly, for Hyper-V. In this section, you are going to look at converged fabrics. You will also look at QoS, which makes converged fabrics possible.

Quality of Service

Although it doesn’t create many headlines, QoS is an important feature of Windows Server 2012. Without it, many of the new possibilities that enable flexibility, cost savings, and easier deployment of Hyper-V would just not be possible.

Remembering a World without QoS

Why did a clustered Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host require so many physical NICs? Let’s count them, leaving iSCSI aside for a moment:

1. Virtual machines: There would be at least one virtual network (the technology ...

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